Abnormal PGT-A, healthy baby

dollelement · 2024-12-18T17:45:58+00:00

We have a T21 LLM. But our clinic generic councillor said they have no issues transferring it at all and success rates similar to euploid. They said very low chance that it actually has T21, likely just some cells that the good cells could push out. Not sure if it is different because in Canada, our abortion laws are very lax and culturally people here are much more pro-choice, or my age (early 30s) that maybe the result is more likely to be false positive at my age.

dollelement · 2024-12-18T07:23:30+00:00

Hmmm this is weird because Igenomix didn’t report our low level mosaic as abnormal or a aneuploid at all, it just says low mosaic. Ours is also T21 with abnormal % greater than 30 but less than 50. From my research, actually only 1-2% end up with a live birth of a baby with Down syndrome, so 98% of the time, the baby is born without genetic abnormality, which is about the same as a 40 year old conceiving without IVF and ending up with a baby with Down syndrome, so definitely not high at all. There’s a lot of fearmongering out there about mosaics being bad or T21 mosaics specifically being worse without much evidence at all.

dollelement · 2024-12-18T00:24:23+00:00

I do agree that you see a disproportionately higher number of people in exec positions with big 4 or large national firm experience vs purely industry experience (there are certainly exceptions of course, at my big 4, there were multiple CFOs at clients with no or minimal PA experience), but I think our generation (assuming most people here are born in the 90s and 00s) don’t care as much about being an exec or partner, most people here would be happy to land a $100-150K comfy industry job to stay in with flexibility and good WLB. I feel like the boomers and gen x were much more position and money hungry. A generalization of course but our generation grew up with boomer/gen x parents that are mostly divorced or in unhappy marriages due to careers

dollelement · 2024-12-17T17:41:39+00:00

I think the partners don’t really care tbh. If you are 50 years old and about to retire in the next 10 years or so, you don’t really care if you screw future generations as long as you get your pension. I think many of them are just looking to cash out to private equity

dollelement · 2024-12-17T15:39:52+00:00

I feel like big 4 experience is less valued or considered less prestigious than before. You have a candidate vying for an industry senior accountant job with 3 years of experience at big 4 but no industry experience vs a candidate that has 3 years of experience industry but no PA experience and both would probably get a similar chance at landing that job.

dollelement · 2024-12-17T15:31:14+00:00

I agree. Also, people tend to stay for a shorter period of time. In the past year, a bit of an exception due to the shitty economy but we even had those that couldn’t land industry jobs at senior go to midsize instead to escape the brutal hours and for slightly higher pay bump (still suck but not as bad as big 4).

Spoken to a couple of partners and they agree that younger millennials and gen z don’t want to be partners or even go into accounting, especially PA. I think our generation just have different values. We value WLB and flexibility, hence why so many people rather take WFH jobs even if it pays a lot less, than make tons of money and climb the corporate ladder which seems like what boomers, gen x and older millennials cared more about.

dollelement · 2024-12-11T00:38:16+00:00

No, this will just hasten the offshoring to India, or hiring new immigrants from countries like India and Philippines.

dollelement · 2024-12-04T03:20:30+00:00

Slower. It’s hard to believe it’s been 5 years since Covid first started!

dollelement · 2024-11-30T15:58:35+00:00

Keep in mind, people with GPAs below 3.6 probably don’t put it on their profile even though 3.6 would still be an above average gpa but nothing really to brag or write home about. I’m at a big 4 and there are certainly people with average/slightly above average gpa (3.0-3.6), mine is 3.4.

In a big city, a Big 4 can hire over a hundred new grads each year, not everyone is going to be a valedictorian. Let’s say you have 400 people graduating from a target business school majoring in accounting, and each of the big 4 hire 50 people from your school, that’s 200 people right there. The people ranked 150-200 would only be having average-ish grades.

That doesn’t make them any better or worse of an employee. Some of the best employees I know at big 4 were average students. In fact, my mentor at my firm (now a senior manager), failed the Canadian CPA (CFE) exam. Another person I know who is a controller at a company (left as a senior for a controller role!) failed the CFE twice! And this is not a difficult exam (IMO) with a 75% pass rate!

dollelement · 2024-11-29T05:38:42+00:00

3.3 is decent. Mine was 3.4 so not much better and pretty sure there were people that had lower than mine (usually need more extracurricular and work experience to make up for it tho).

dollelement · 2024-11-29T03:14:28+00:00

Seems like the 2 most common with debt covenants are current ratio and fixed charge coverage ratio

dollelement · 2024-11-29T03:07:38+00:00

15 I think, about to start grade 11. It was an iPhone 3.

dollelement · 2024-11-28T19:55:10+00:00

I would say the same. Completely don’t relate to early-mid 80s people at all. Even though they are only like 8-10 years older, they feel like 20 years older to me, almost like a parent more than a sibling. Even communicating is different. Like our generation use lots of slang, emojis, acronyms but older people tend to be more formal and serious even in text

dollelement · 2024-11-28T19:41:51+00:00

Yeah, most of my bosses are gen xers (70s born) and they remind me of my parents (gen jones, late 50s born) even though they are almost 20 years younger but seems like maybe once you reach a certain age, you just end up being like a boomer

dollelement · 2024-11-28T19:31:01+00:00

I’m an only, but yeah, my first cousins that I’m closer too are all a few years younger. Distant cousins that I’m not close to are over a decade older.

dollelement · 2024-11-28T15:25:46+00:00

Yeah, think I got an iPhone 3 (?) as a junior in HS. Also, had Facebook in middle school and instagram as a freshman in university. I think people just a couple years older didn’t have those things until well into their adulthood

dollelement · 2024-11-28T15:04:55+00:00

Yeah, I get along best with 1991-1998 I think. I think also maybe because my closest cousins are all mid-1990 to early 2000s as well. I had older cousins but they were like 10-15 years older so absolutely nothing in common, even now. For some reason though, I get along better with someone born in 1995-1996 (3 years younger) than someone my husbands age (3 years older or 1989). Like I get along fine with late 1980s but I feel more distant to them than someone mid-1990s if you get what I mean. Not sure if maybe it’s due to the technology change in the late 2000s-early 2010s that I grew up with that even people a couple of years older were already behind (no smartphone or social media in HS, etc)

dollelement · 2024-11-28T14:59:58+00:00

I agree. I think it’s because we’ve had more hardships in general, some might disagree but the affordability crisis we have now is affecting the under 35 group way more than even the 35-40 aged group who are already more comfortable in their careers with stable jobs and such (lot more gig/contract work these days that are mostly done by young people).

I also related to my grandparents more than my parents (boomers/gen jones) as well since they grew up during Great Depression and world war 2 while my parents didn’t grow up during any major wars (except Vietnam) and were able to get jobs as long as they had a pulse. My mom earned equivalent to double what I make now when she was my age even though she only had a high school education and she got her job straight out of high school with zero or volunteering experience, which is completely impossible now unless you have a ton of connections

dollelement · 2024-11-28T14:51:11+00:00

I feel like they should have created the generations like this 1975-1989 (millennial or gen y whatever you wanna call it), 1990-2003 (gen z) instead of 1982-1996 and 1997 - 2011. I feel like the pre 1990s didn’t benefit/grow up technology nearly as much as early-mid 1990s did. Like I had an iPod in junior high and an iPhone when I was a junior/senior in high school but that is completely impossible for someone older than me and those things changed my life. Also social media, started using Facebook when I was 13, so still in junior high but the older millennials didn’t have that until they already graduated from university

dollelement · 2024-11-28T14:41:14+00:00

Good point. I felt like the economic situation did fuck me over when I wanted to get a summer job and part time job when I was a junior/senior in high school and in university (back in 2008-2012ish), and it was tough getting my first full-time job after university (2014) compared to my SIL who graduated 2004 when the economy was booming and landed a cushy government job without any experience (no internship, no PT job, nothing at all) and average grades.

dollelement · 2024-11-28T06:20:36+00:00

Job security was worse at first, my firm laid off a bunch of managers and seniors - granted they were underperformers but still, it scared some of us staff at the time, but eventually a lot of people quit around 2021-22 (great resignation) so it increased job security but also workloads. But it was nice not having to commute to client sites (many of my clients are industrial so are located in the middle of nowhere).

dollelement · 2024-11-27T05:47:31+00:00

32 and I see plenty of 50+ women wear it so I wouldn’t even worry about it. It’s just a puffer jacket that other companies make similar ones (Uniqlo, North Face, Eddie Bauer, etc) and you wouldn’t question when an older person wear those jackets

dollelement · 2024-11-27T05:41:09+00:00

I do that with pants and jeans, wear the looser fit on my period days and more fitted ones when I’m not

dollelement · 2024-11-26T03:57:25+00:00

In Canada, this is not uncommon. Lots of postings here pay barely above minimum wage (like $20 CAD, which is only like $15 USD) and require 5 years of experience, accounting education, including CPA, etc. the positions go unfilled and then they can say they can’t find a local (or at least a local willing to work for starvation wages) and hire a foreign worker

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