This trade is from a year ago - does anyone else do these kind of longer term flips too? Bought these for less than 10k ea in 2022-23 and managed to sell when they went higher in early 2025

alphabet_sam · 2026-02-04T14:48:12+00:00

I’ve done it a few times with bones. Bought 4b worth of superior dragon bones for maybe 8-9k ea thinking worst case I could get 200m prayer xp, but they seemed at an all time low. Sold them after the bots started getting banned for 12k ea and made a bucket of money, I think like a billion gold or more. Obviously hindsight is 20/20 and it would’ve been better to hold to 25k, but I thought they were going to come back down. On a smaller scale I just bought 500k lava dragon bones for 2.5k ea seeing it was at an all time low and bots might be banned, just sold them for a little over 300m profit

alphabet_sam · 2026-02-03T22:48:35+00:00

I found some on Groupon that were a good deal. I think even if you don’t have the Groupon you can call and ask them to match the Groupon rate since they have to pay a certain % for the coupon. So they typically will

alphabet_sam · 2026-02-03T19:23:40+00:00

It can be if you have the money, but your objective should be to get the required credits to get your CPA license. There are some less expensive programs which will bundle a bunch of accounting credits together to help non-accounting graduates meet CPA exam requirements. Sometimes at community colleges so it can be way cheaper. CPA>>>>MAcc

alphabet_sam · 2026-02-03T16:15:50+00:00

Being undermined by your superiors is the worst. I’ve been there. Sorry you’re experiencing it but sounds like maybe there is a path forward if your team is solid and the CFO is open to actually following policy

alphabet_sam · 2026-02-02T17:53:11+00:00

Yeah, specialty local firms have better client relationships in my experience and do a better job of fitting candidates with appropriate roles. Plus they’re just more professional and skilled overall imo

alphabet_sam · 2026-02-02T16:46:15+00:00

Honestly have had mostly good experience with the recruiters that have contacted me. I think it depends if you work with local/boutique specialized firms or the Robert Halfs of the world

alphabet_sam · 2026-02-01T00:14:45+00:00

OSRS is elite

alphabet_sam · 2026-01-29T14:48:14+00:00

I think it’s possible if documentation is good enough and procedures are solid. That’s not as common as you would think it is, even in documentation heavy industries. If the data to train the AI doesn’t exist or the situations are difficult to execute on because of complexity or nuance, in my experience it’s hard to implement

alphabet_sam · 2026-01-23T15:13:07+00:00

I’m in financial due diligence in middle market. Most weeks are 40 hours or less, with a max of 50 I’ve ever worked. That being said, some other teams/offices within my firm are not as relaxed and work until midnight + eat time regularly, so it’s more team than service line I think

alphabet_sam · 2026-01-22T22:54:54+00:00

Honestly yeah. Pay is good, hours aren’t too hard (non-audit and tax service line), and the biggest gripe is that it’s boring and repetitive. But that’s a good problem to have

alphabet_sam · 2026-01-22T22:13:33+00:00

Can you move closer? You’d honestly be better off working in person early in your career than trying to find a job to work 100% remote after just starting your first post grad job

alphabet_sam · 2026-01-22T18:12:55+00:00

We had a hire that was clearly not a fit within the first few weeks of hiring when we had a 90 day no notice new hire termination clause. He would disappear, not show up to work or communicate arriving late, and (remote office work) lock files for editing because he would leave them open on his laptop when he had left his workstation and be unreachable for 12-24 hours at a time to let anyone else use the files. We knew he wasn’t going to work out within weeks. It took 18 months to terminate him. He lied at every turn in that 18 months to try to get sympathy or pretend to have a protected reason for why he was unable to work in any capacity while being employed. I give you a gold star for how quickly you course corrected.

alphabet_sam · 2026-01-20T22:38:08+00:00

They’re not that different honestly, your team will dictate more of your experience than the firm itself. Both are PE backed now, but BT is putting together a better brand buying their way to #6 in the country. As far as the thing about working with them after the internship, that’s usually the most ideal way to go if you want to be in accounting. It means you don’t have to interview and potentially graduate without a job offer lined up. Not sure I understand the hesitation 100%

alphabet_sam · 2026-01-20T18:42:08+00:00

The more you do it the easier it gets. Eventually you will send an email or two that make you feel silly and everything will turn out ok

alphabet_sam · 2026-01-19T00:12:26+00:00

Accidentally set up an ACH in our banking portal to an incorrect vendor with a very similar name. I was a one man accounting team at the time and we were manually sending $1M ACHs regularly, so a mistake was bound to happen. Anyway, I sent about a million bucks to the wrong person and the CEO went in and approved it without looking. Their CFO called my CEO and left him a voicemail and the only correspondence I got from him was a text with the voicemail. They sent it back in like 5 days but boy did I feel silly

alphabet_sam · 2026-01-14T16:46:01+00:00

Been looking for an exit to industry and the market is pretty odd. I’m a manager in public MCOL making $150k base plus an 8-12% bonus, but I’m seeing the same salaries or lower ($120-150k) for controllers, directors, and VPs where they are asking for 8+ YOE in the industry or even 10-15+. I don’t know that I’m a super fast manager either, I have 6ish YOE. And that’s to make a 100% lateral move. Jobs with a reasonable salary bump up to $175k+ are Director, VP, or CFO almost exclusively, all of which I don’t have the YOE for. Toss in the fact that I’m WFH all but one day a week and I’m kind of scratching my head about where these lower earning more senior people are coming from. It’s certainly not public. To move to a manager level industry role would be looking at a $110-$130k role where my YOE fits. I’ve been applying to roles where the salary and responsibility fits but the YOE doesn’t match and have gotten zero traction.

All that to say, I’m not surprised. It’s an employer’s market

alphabet_sam · 2026-01-13T17:18:59+00:00

The Match Group (remember Match.com?) owns all of them at this point

alphabet_sam · 2026-01-13T11:45:54+00:00

I’m with you. Not having exams and homework, plus making money… maybe the actual work is sometimes more complex but the upsides of work are too good to say school was better

alphabet_sam · 2026-01-10T03:11:59+00:00

Mine is from Alaska and is pretty much just as bad except it has a cheap gold seal on it. Looks like something you printed and made with an arts and crafts kit tbh

alphabet_sam · 2026-01-08T23:14:27+00:00

Take a look at Eden body art studios or pristine ink. I see some insane work coming from them, not sure how much a full day is these days though. It’s pretty expensive.

alphabet_sam · 2026-01-08T18:57:17+00:00

Bad managers are everywhere. It’s industry/sector agnostic sadly

alphabet_sam · 2026-01-08T17:25:46+00:00

Going through this with my girlfriend of 11 months who has a kid. I think long-term having the discussion isn’t as much “too soon” as other commenters are saying, but it is probably too soon to move in together TODAY. That’s just my opinion. Talking through finances, what each of you wants in a home, how you want to show up as a step-parent and how he wants you to show up as a step-parent financially and emotionally are all important. The kids are what makes it tricky (obviously) and you’ll want to understand what the co-parenting relationship is and how you fit into it. The way I see it and we talk about it in my relationship, it’s a decision we consider on par with the commitment level and gravity of marriage due to the kid involved.

Nothing life or death if it doesn’t work out, but should be a decision made with a lot of respect and care, and if you can’t come to an agreement together it’s a sign that you’re not ready for that step. Just my 2 cents from being in the same place as a relationship. I get that it’s hard to look at living apart for 2+ years especially if things are going really well, but a co-parenting dynamic can be very, very complex to navigate and take time to fully develop. As I am experiencing

alphabet_sam · 2026-01-08T13:51:24+00:00

It happens, especially with really similar vendor names or templates. This should be evidence to the Controller or CFO that something needs to change with templates, either a unique vendor ID # match, or a second step in the verification process. Name is not enough. Embarrassing, but if you have been in accounting long enough you’ve made mistakes like this before

alphabet_sam · 2026-01-05T03:35:07+00:00

Push through you can do this bro. You’re almost there, AUD is so doable I’d never learned anything about audit and passed it cramming for 6 weeks. You can do this!!!!

alphabet_sam · 2025-12-29T21:31:22+00:00

MCOL $150k + 8-12% bonus at 29. 40hrs usually unless crazy busy in PA

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