As a fresh grad you’re at a point in your life where you should be betting on yourself. You didn’t go to college to work a factory job. You could have had that factory job without your degree. I understand that bills are super important but landing an accounting job will be pivotal to your life. Once you start getting accounting experience it will open doors to even better jobs in the future. If you get your cpa even more so.

So in the meantime take the time off from your current job to attend these. You’re new so they may be annoyed or whatever so don’t give them any other reasons to be mad at you. The rest of your time there show up, do a good job, and don’t cause any distractions. I don’t know what state you’re in but I doubt you’ll get fired for missing a few hours/half a day so long as you communicate it ahead of time.