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I have been trying to decide what to do until I get my degree in September. I had considered odd jobs, temp jobs, etc...well, today I received a full-time offer!
I will be working as a Tax consultant for a large tax firm that has clients worldwide. I get to do what I love doing, gain experience, and get paid for it! I am really excited that they offered me a position before I graduate.
The benefits are great and I am getting paid the same amount as my last job. The best part is that when I get my EA license, my salary will increase another $10,000 and I will be allowed to take every other Friday off!
The only downside is that tax season will be pretty rough and I will be working from 85-100 hours a week from January through April, but I thought it called for a celebration anyway!
quote:An Enrolled Agent (EA) is a federally-authorized tax practitioner who has technical expertise in the field of taxation and who is empowered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to represent taxpayers before all administrative levels of the Internal Revenue Service for audits, collections, and appeals.
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Horaay. Congratulations. My baby got a job today too. She was a mid-year grad and has been on an unsuccessful job search for a while now. Today must be the "job offer day". Sometimes the good guys win one.
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Those are billable hours. I'm sure my attorney bills for that many hours every week. My phone call is fifteen minutes minimum even if I'm a wrong number.
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quote:Also... 100 hours a week?? Are there even 100 hours IN a week?
Actually, they plan on having us work 6 days a week working from early in the morning until midnight on some nights. In January - March 15, it will probably be 85 hours, but the last month will be 100 (or so they say).
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I'm planning on being on vacation while he's working 100 hours a week (or I'd go crazy.) Maybe the girls and I will take a trip with multiple stops and visit lots of Jatraqueros. Since he'll be getting overtime and huge bonuses, we'll be able to afford that...
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Yep. He'd been trying to decide whether he wanted to get a CPA, EA, or nothing for a while after he finished his degree. The fact that they'll pay for his EA (including any prep he needs and the testing and licensing) and then immediately give him a $10,000/yr raise and every other Friday off (well, not during tax season, but the rest of the year) kind of made that decision easy. He may later decide to go for his CPA but for now being an EA is very valuable in itself, and since taxes is all he really wants to do this is kind of the perfect job for him...
Also, they promised that he will never have to to work on Sunday. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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quote:Originally posted by anti_maven: (not sure what root beer is...)
It's a carbonated soft drink with a fairly high sugar content and a slightly herbal, somewhat medicinal taste. Some brands taste slightly spicy, rather like a mild ginger beer with additional herbs, and some taste more like a cream soda.
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Thanks KQ - you are now my GoTo Girl for all things condimentary and beverage related. I've learned my new thing for today - can I go home now?
Mind you, I think I'll stick to ginger beer if you don't mind, it has equally good celebratory properties, but doesn'taste of medicine!
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Congratulations, KetchupPrinceConsort! It's great that you have a job in your field before graduation. Your hard work has paid off. Posts: 6316 | Registered: Jun 2003
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"It's vile." "I know. It's so bubbly and cloying and happy." "Just like the Federation." "But you know what's really frightening? If you drink enough of it, you start to like it." "It's insidious." "Just like the Federation."
- Garak and Quark, on root beer
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As the wife of a CPA I can tell you that anyone who might be interesed in seeing you during busy season should pursue other interests. I don't think it is possible to work 100 hours a week without working on Sunday. In June my husband is gone from 6 AM to midnight Mon-Sat and usually puts in about 85 hours. I don't know how you'd fit in fifteen more hours without giving up sleep completely.
Congrats on the job, though. Especially if it's a big firm, opportunities for advancement come quickly as do salary increases, usually. If you can pay your dues now you'll have a healthy career down the line.
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quote:Originally posted by anti_maven: Thanks KQ - you are now my GoTo Girl for all things condimentary and beverage related. I've learned my new thing for today - can I go home now?
Mind you, I think I'll stick to ginger beer if you don't mind, it has equally good celebratory properties, but doesn'taste of medicine!
The word medicine did not even enter my mind when I thought of root beer. You really ought to try it, its quite a bit different then ginger beer/ale. If you can find it in Europe, IBC root beer is my favorite brand. But A&W root beer is widely considered the quintessential root beer manufacturer. If you have ever had sasperella its quite close to that taste, but much better IMO.
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quote:The word medicine did not even enter my mind when I thought of root beer.
Well, Alton Brown says it's a slightly medicinal taste, and ever since I heard that, I have to agree when I drink it. But in a good way.
Of course, both the brands you mentioned are more on the "cream soda" side of the scale than the "medicinal/ginger beer" side. So maybe you automatically think of the milder ones when you think of root beer. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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quote:I don't know how you'd fit in fifteen more hours without giving up sleep completely.
Well, 168 hours/week, -100 hours of work, 68 hours left; -24 hours for midnight Sat. to midnight Sun.; 44 hours; /6 days in a week that are not Sun.= 7 1/3 hours/day when it's not Sunday that he's not working. So if he works through meals and snacks at his desk (pretty much assumed), and works from 6 to 11 or 12, then comes home and crashes immediately, he could still get almost 6 hours of rest per night and have Sunday off on a week where he puts in 100 hours.
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My sister in law is a CPA who puts in 100 hours a week during tax season. She hates to get up early, though, so she does work on Sunday. They come home after church, she eats lunch with the family, then goes to the office until around 10.
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See, considering that church for us is from 11-2 and then Jeff has an after-church calling that usually takes an hour or so (while I'm in choir), that wouldn't work very well for us even if Jeff was willing to work Sundays, which he's not except under pretty extreme circumstances (since it's not like he's a doctor or anything. He did occasionally use to when he was a vet tech; on holidays they each took turns having kennel duty and taking care of the animals. But since it was only once or twice a year and the animals needed to be fed and walked, and he could work it around church, he was okay with that.) (Of course next year we will probably switch to 9-12, although no guarantees, but still wouldn't work well.)
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