I love getting good news, and great news is even better.
A bit of background first: Since I moved out here, I have had to register in this crappy thing called CASB in order to become fully qualified as an accountant. This thing does not exist in Ontario. In Ontario I would be making 30% more money and would be a mere month and a half from writing my final exam. Here, it will be two years and a month and a half if all goes well, longer if I screw up along the line.
What CASB consists of, and why it is such a pain in the ass, is five 10-week, intense courses with an assignment due every week (plus up to two revisions if they feel you didn't do it "right" the first time, and you ALWAYS get at least one revision for *each* of the 10 assignments), a weekend-long "face to face" session and a Saturday (8 am - uuugghhhh) exam. Each week you are in the program CASB estimates 15 hours a week of work, in addition to your real job. This is a gross under-estimate of how much time you can waste in these things. Now just imagine the impact this kind of commitment has on the rest of your life. Are you thinking "what life?", because I sure am. This program has a history of ruining lives, breaking up marriages and relationships and the like as it is way too demanding, and unreasonably thinks you haven't anything better to do with yourself and your time. This is then followed by a shorter UFE prep course thing, then the exam that everyone in the country has to take, and then, as the final insult, we were required to take an extra ten-week "focus" module, as if the national exam didn't make us truly qualified. Just five minutes ago they announced suspension of the "focus" module requirement for anyone currently in the program (they will revisit the idea in the spring for the unlucky ones that come after us).
I just wrote the exam on the first one last weekend, and expect my results on Friday. Hopefully I just have to do this four more times and a bit and it will all be over! Sure, I'd be even happier if they scrapped the whole thing, but even scrapping one part is good enough to make me smile today. Good riddance to bad rubbish!
A bit of background first: Since I moved out here, I have had to register in this crappy thing called CASB in order to become fully qualified as an accountant. This thing does not exist in Ontario. In Ontario I would be making 30% more money and would be a mere month and a half from writing my final exam. Here, it will be two years and a month and a half if all goes well, longer if I screw up along the line.
What CASB consists of, and why it is such a pain in the ass, is five 10-week, intense courses with an assignment due every week (plus up to two revisions if they feel you didn't do it "right" the first time, and you ALWAYS get at least one revision for *each* of the 10 assignments), a weekend-long "face to face" session and a Saturday (8 am - uuugghhhh) exam. Each week you are in the program CASB estimates 15 hours a week of work, in addition to your real job. This is a gross under-estimate of how much time you can waste in these things. Now just imagine the impact this kind of commitment has on the rest of your life. Are you thinking "what life?", because I sure am. This program has a history of ruining lives, breaking up marriages and relationships and the like as it is way too demanding, and unreasonably thinks you haven't anything better to do with yourself and your time. This is then followed by a shorter UFE prep course thing, then the exam that everyone in the country has to take, and then, as the final insult, we were required to take an extra ten-week "focus" module, as if the national exam didn't make us truly qualified. Just five minutes ago they announced suspension of the "focus" module requirement for anyone currently in the program (they will revisit the idea in the spring for the unlucky ones that come after us).
I just wrote the exam on the first one last weekend, and expect my results on Friday. Hopefully I just have to do this four more times and a bit and it will all be over! Sure, I'd be even happier if they scrapped the whole thing, but even scrapping one part is good enough to make me smile today. Good riddance to bad rubbish!
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