Anonymous wrote:Another thought. My daughter is getting her master's in accounting. She has people in her class that have other degrees, and they are doing a bridge program that includes the 6 GAAP required courses plus the MAcc courses. It can be done in 18-24 months. That will get you on your way to be CPA eligible.

The need for skilled accountants will go down as we gut IRS and SEC and there's no longer oversight on anyone's books.

Anonymous wrote:Another thought. My daughter is getting her master's in accounting. She has people in her class that have other degrees, and they are doing a bridge program that includes the 6 GAAP required courses plus the MAcc courses. It can be done in 18-24 months. That will get you on your way to be CPA eligible.

So how do you pay your bills for 18-24 months. I’m a single parent so it’s not feasible. I wish it was.

Anonymous wrote:I am all for increasing efficiency and not tolerating poor performance (to be clear, I think those cases are uncommon), but it seems to be that a slower, more measured approach to reducing government size would’ve been more effective. I am genuinely confused when these huge swaths of people are supposed to find employment - especially when the private sector / contractors are also doing layoffs.

What is the plan? We as a country also can’t sustain a significant chunk of the population being out of work…

I'm curious where your concerns have been for the last four years. Throughout this time, anyone who wasn't affiliated with the federal government has been shouting from the rooftops that white collar jobs were getting cut, and people were suffering as a result.

I'm guessing you were among those saying that Tysons II was crowded and that the right-wing individuals were just stupid and lazy.

For the past four years, the DMV bubble has been told that jobs were scarce and budgets were tight, but we were all ignored.

There has been zero sympathy. And I have none to give in return.

Trump plan is for fired Feds to replace jobs vacated by the deported illegals. Not a joke. He thinks fired Feds will have no choice after the unemployment benefits run out. People have to eat and need shelter

Another thought. My daughter is getting her master's in accounting. She has people in her class that have other degrees, and they are doing a bridge program that includes the 6 GAAP required courses plus the MAcc courses. It can be done in 18-24 months. That will get you on your way to be CPA eligible.

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, look at a second degree nursing program. By the time your fork money ends you will be close to finished.

That’s… not true. Typically, nursing programs (including associates at community college) require 8 or so science pre-reqs, which take time to complete. You can just do them all at once and double up on anatomy and phys. An accelerated bachelors (if you have a bs ba in something else) is a tough admit program and at minimum one year. Even associates RN is four semesters at community college.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously, look at a second degree nursing program. By the time your fork money ends you will be close to finished.

I’m not a fed but I am seriously considering this. From my research, though, they take several years?

+1 yes, several years

Not several years. If you have the prerequisite classes, the nursing part takes about a year in an accelerated program. Here you can find accelerated programs by state. George Mason has one.
https://www.absnprograms.org/

Anonymous wrote:FCPS I think has an open house re teaching

And lots of other positions! There are financial tech and administrative positions.

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Anonymous wrote:And they will stop buying things their middle class life enables them to buy, which will hurt local economies. Sorry, car dealer and restaurant and clothing store.

Not just those. We decided to cut down groceries and limit gift giving, trim vacations, etc. It's literally a ricochet to everyone

No more house cleaner, hair salon or landscapers for us.

Same.

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Anonymous wrote:I kind of wonder what the enrollment impact will be on our public schools when families find themselves unable to afford private tuition too

That's one of the positive outcomes in my opinion. Private schools locally will tank, there are too many anyhow, and when you have educated parents reinvolved with public schools they will flourish.

Plus, super easy to become a substitute teacher to make a least part of the money to pay bills.

Don't count on that. The funding is being cut for education too.

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Anonymous wrote:And they will stop buying things their middle class life enables them to buy, which will hurt local economies. Sorry, car dealer and restaurant and clothing store.

Not just those. We decided to cut down groceries and limit gift giving, trim vacations, etc. It's literally a ricochet to everyone

No more house cleaner, hair salon or landscapers for us.

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Anonymous wrote:Probably in the service jobs mass deportation will free up. Literally, that’s the only thing I can come up with and it’s grim.

What about server positions? Easily $40-$50 per hour.

Not when everyone in a specific region is laid off and tightening their belts. Restaurants will have trouble staying open as well.

All those "service" jobs mentioned earlier will struggle to stay in business and will layoff too. Who has the money for those places when they are not employed? I've already cut them from my budget.

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Anonymous wrote:Wal Mart
Target
Outback
Chilis
Five Guys
Merry Maids
Jiffy Lube

So you going to have hundreds of thousands of highly educated people making minimum wage at a five guys?

That is absurd. I would have no reason to go on living. Really predict this admin will result in a significant increase in suicides.

That’s your choice.

Wow!! Zero empathy. What happened to you to make you this inhuman?

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Anonymous wrote:I kind of wonder what the enrollment impact will be on our public schools when families find themselves unable to afford private tuition too

That's one of the positive outcomes in my opinion. Private schools locally will tank, there are too many anyhow, and when you have educated parents reinvolved with public schools they will flourish.

Plus, super easy to become a substitute teacher to make a least part of the money to pay bills.

How many feds can afford to send their kids to private schools?

There’s a lot of tuition daylight between St Albans and some random storefront “classical” school and I suspect a lot of families are stretching to send their kids to both.

Anonymous wrote:And they will stop buying things their middle class life enables them to buy, which will hurt local economies. Sorry, car dealer and restaurant and clothing store.

Not just those. We decided to cut down groceries and limit gift giving, trim vacations, etc. It's literally a ricochet to everyone