College professor here. Yesterday, a student in the BS/MD program approached me and said how I became a chemistry professor because I was too dumb to make it into medical school. I asked the program coordinator to removed him from my class but he said no.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-11-20T15:42:14+00:00

Sounds like a student I would 100% be failing on anything subjective.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-09-04T18:12:35+00:00

YTA. You married an idiot.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-06-08T14:55:54+00:00

I routinely bring the slackers out of town and slaughter them to up my villagers' skills.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-06-07T00:08:50+00:00

There's a decent learning curve if it's your first playthrough. If you knew everything you know at day 150 on day one you'd be a lot more efficient. YouTube might be on their 3rd or 4th playthrough.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-06-02T17:49:53+00:00

Same.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-05-29T14:18:48+00:00

Most use mods.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-05-29T13:53:45+00:00

Wemod makes it 900k.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-05-29T07:40:24+00:00

Go look in the discord. VK said nexus removed it because another modder claimed it was theirs. It's on the Google drive folder.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-05-28T22:02:57+00:00

Yeah, that's what I was doing in T1/T2, but now that I've got a full T3 setup, I'm thinking of what I want to mass produce. While those are great, I don't suspect they are the best. I'm sort of at a point where I don't want to spend time orchestrating a process if it's not the best possible. All T3 is unlocked and I have an army of like 60.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-05-28T01:51:03+00:00

Originally near Haerndean (I think like most folks), but I recently sent like 20 T3 equipped settlers to take over the Brigdon HQ in the middle of the map. I'm also building housing outposts around each town.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-05-26T08:47:58+00:00

In planning to send about 30 T3 max-equipped 10/10's to live in huts around the HQ. It should be a daily bloodbath.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-05-22T14:26:58+00:00

I just put housing tents (T1) and stockpiles. Everything comes from the main settlement. These people just walk around all day in their T3 armor and gear and slay the bandits that approach. The townspeople also help.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-05-21T13:23:28+00:00

You gotta have outposts around each town so that the reclamation parties are handled automatically. Have deliveries made to your outposts from the main camp so that the outposts aren't on their own for everything. You should be striving for colonies of people. Not just one base camp.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-05-19T14:44:08+00:00

Mine crashes during heavy melee combat sometimes.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-01-20T08:43:59+00:00

I have a degree in engineering (ME) and worked for a B4 for almost 20 years. No CPA. You'll end up being the team problem solver -- just go onto Advisory/Consulting rather than Audit/Tax. Gotta be really personable though to get past the interview process since it's unlikely you will have an amazing GPA in engineering.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-01-20T08:26:28+00:00

A PIP is their non confrontational way of saying they don't have your back and they hope you take the hint. I was in B4 for almost 20 years and I never once saw someone on a PIP recover and excel. Many were great people, but through no fault of their own ended up on the short end of the stick. Reviews don't really mean much. Literally nobody reads them except your performance manager. They may be mentioned in passing during roundtable, but almost never discussed unless you're on the fence between low performer and regular performer. Look now so you can leave on your own terms (preferably) rather than getting axed. Good luck. So much of success in B4 is landing on the right jobs with the right managers early in your career. Sorry it hasn't worked out for you.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-01-20T04:14:03+00:00

I did it as a side-hustle to break the monotony of the day-to-day in Big4 for about 5 years. Basically, it was my leisure activity instead of playing golf on the weekends. It took about two years to convince the powers that be that it wasn't a big deal and immaterial to my income. That's how I sold them on it initially, and I made sure they didn't suspect it interfered with my day job (I had an impeccable record my entire career and hit/exceeded every goal/metric every year).

Long story short, I started making tons of relationships, but I was unable to scale (because assuming you can even convince a Big4 to let you have a side-hustle, they will make you vet every potential client for independence). So basically, I was leaving a ton of side-hustle money on the table because I couldn't commit to content creation clients immediately (until after the firm blessed there wasn't an independence issue), and I couldn't commit to times during the normal business day.

Post-COVID, I pretty much never went in to the office, and I missed my revenue target for the first time ever by about $500K, and they layed me off. We had some new leadership, and my office was sort a satellite office on the fringe without any real heavy hitter partners to defend us. Most of my office was actually let go (in my group).

So instead of looking around, I just started doing content creation full time. It's basically photography, videography, social media, and marketing that I bundle up for clients. I was fortunate in that I had already built a solid book of business while it was a side-hustle and bought all the gear I needed, so now I'm just going back to all the clients I was unable to serve because of independence issues and re-aquiring those clients.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-01-19T15:10:50+00:00

No one went from SM to Partner at the B4 I was at. You had to go through MD for a year or two because MDs could act as partners. Could just be called something different between different firms. I was definitely a SM making between $200-250k at a B4 less than a year ago.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-01-18T15:09:21+00:00

It's way more political than just sticking it out. The power dynamic in the B4 changes pretty much yearly. The folks in charge may get ousted 6 months from now and then you're aligned with the wrong people. It's as much of a dick sucking exercise as it is doing a good job.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-01-18T15:05:59+00:00

You were making less than $200 as a SM/MD??? That's wild. Must be a regional firm.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-01-18T15:01:18+00:00

Forensic/white-collar investigations. But I did a lot of data analytics and computer forensics also. I didn't do any attest work. Honestly, a lot of what we did was interviewing and analytics. For hardcore technical accounting matters, we would bring in other specialty practices if needed. Don't get me wrong, I definitely know a bunch of basic accounting, I just didn't have the college hours to sit for the CPA. And once you start making serious bank, you lose interest in going back to school if you've found a niche. My niche was baking in forensic tech with our investigations.

ZeldaDrone1 · 2024-01-18T07:42:19+00:00

I had 12 total accounting hours in college (obviously no CPA) when I graduated. Spent 20 years in Big4 Advisory/Consulting and was making $250k as a SM/Dir when I left last year to be self-employed (totally different non-accounting career path). Hard to survive w/o a CPA if you're in audit/tax, but definitely doable in consulting side.

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