touchie...
hahah, obviousley i have ruffled a few feathers. First of all i was only expressing an opinion, as observed by insomniac. I admit my generalisations were very broad but they were an accurate summation of the attitude of the six people from my school who got cadetships, maybe u people are different.
in response to-
"ghostrider is just jealous the he/she doesn't have a job next yr that opens up so many possibilities."
if there is an antonym for the word jealous then that word could possible begin to describe my attitude to those who have received accounting cadetships. I pity them. You used your stattistics to back up your claim that an accounting cadetships opens up so many possiblities. Even though im not so sad as to validate my statistics (obviousley u r either very sad or have alot of time on your hands to know that fact) i believe over half of the top ten richest people in australia left school after year 10. So therefore continuing your pattern of logic i could make the claim that leaving school after year 10 opens up so many possibilities. My other bone to pick is with the comment '54% of the richest 1000 people in the world, and 68% of the richest 220 in Australia, have an ACCOUNTING background.' My response, " SO WHAT?" Obviousley an undercurrent didn't manifest itself strongly enough in my first post. I'm suggesting that accounting is such a shit, boring, soulless job for the very fact that, '68% of the richest 220 in Australia, have an ACCOUNTING background'. Why don't u go ask all these people, 'hey, do u actually enjoy ur job?' I think u know what the answer would be. THe only reason they would enjoy it is because they woul be rackin in the money. Im making the connatation that accounting is the chief instigator of the materialistic egotism of those elusive 68%, which you, your goal in life obviousley to collect as much wealth as possible, so desperately wish to join.
i agree with most of what --insomniac-- said. yeah i was making generalisations. im sure not all people who got cadetships have parents who are accountants. I personally don't know what i want out of life, im not as focussed as u suggest. However i do know what i DON"T want out of life, and the life of an accountant probably sums up the 'DON't want' aspects. YOu said "Does it really matter what you do in life? As long as im busy and making some money I really don't care."
Do u not find these statement that u just made profoundly depressing? I know im being pedantic but the point of life to u seems to be- stay occupied and make some money. I think u should care what u do in life. I can understnad ur wish to be busy and make some money but do it in something that is remotely interesting and that u can enjoy.
ANd yes i agree with the statement that someone has to do the shitty jobs however as im assuming that o get ur cadetship that u need above 85UAI so ur quite intelligent. Ur not dumb or anything so why do the shitty job, ur intellligent- ergo you should do the good job. And the issue of a 'respectable' job. does this encompass any employment minus that in the sex industry or something? i'm not going to go any further with that comment but lets just say maybe your parents should care more about the fact that u like ur job rather than it being 'respectable'.
johnson, insomniacs loyal partner, no real quibbles with you. you say
'so what if they wanna study and work at the same time? '
i think it is good if u study and work part time. Ill know ill be frickeen doing it. But my point is accounting is not the best employment to explore that avenue. The job is boring, the pay is shit, and its meaningless. Ill probably be doing laboring while at uni and earning round 20-25 bucks an hour. cadets get round 8 bucks an hour after tax. There is this grand delusion that geting a cadetship means money rolling in, in a sense it does. but what ever a cadet earns in their 38 hour week anyone could earn in less than half the time.
I accept ur point on the suits comment. It was just an observation i made from 3 guys who got cadetships, when they rationalised their shitty employment with statements such as ' ill be looking like such a sic cunt next year in my classy suit.' I admit that doesn't apply to everyone.
I know it not nice to pay out what people are doing but like i said in the opening of my first statement it is just something i had to get off my chest. and judging by the reaction, its point of view that they havent heard before. and one that obviolsey offended bugger. I ve observed that many of the people who i know that have got cadetships dont have a very rounded view of the job. They only believe the glossy prospectuses and the vomit worthy corporate love in sessions. they dont realise the negative s by talking to people who have actually done cadetships and didnt' love them. I seriousley considered doing one until i fully researched it and reaslied what a complete rort it is. Ur work basically full time for peanuts, u HAVE to major in accounting, and they give this really disgusting, sappy corporate illusion that they actually care about u and ur wellbeing.
Well what an unusually long post.
"ghostrider please talk again because it allows the rest of us to have a laugh, at how dumb you actually are."
I hope i have satisfied ur desperate urge bugger. Its funny, although we have vastly different attitudes we share sort of similar goals. I do want a decent job, something that i enjoy and find interesting and ill be the first one to admit that ill probably find it in the commerce world. It seems we are on different paths to the same place, however ur think ur path is the yellow brick road. I do not suffer this illusion. I have found the people doing cadetships have above average intelligence, but no further than that.Bugger, If you were really as smart as ur condascending attitude suggests then u would realise that accounting cadetships are not as good as they seem. Good luck in ur chosen path, im sure ill cross ur like in my career. And ill just make a final generalisation to satisfy JOhnson. 'bugger, make sure u vote liberal in the election. Long live John Howard u spineless, ignorant plebian.' How rude of me