Anonymous
02/15/2025 19:24
Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Mind saying where she attends and whether it's online or in person?
CPAs are supposedly going to lose their jobs to ai.
Yeah I wasn't thinking about it to become a CPA or to do taxes - which has largely been taken over by TurboTax for most filers. Was thinking about it as a way to acquire a skillset to complement the background I have already. Nothing is decided - obv it's a lot of money to spend.
Anonymous
02/15/2025 19:24
Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Teaching! Can get hired immediately.
I need people to stop posting this. You can’t just walk into teaching.
It requires licensure. And even if you do an alternative route program, it’s going to take some time. You need special ed credits, reading credits, Praxis scores (or the equivalent), student teaching experience or time with a mentor, etc. And after all that, you need to survive your first classroom on your own.
I know people think this job is easy and anyone can do it, but that simply isn’t true. We have so many shortages right now because so many people can’t or don’t want to put up with the demands.
UDC had a one year MA program not long ago. Praxis was easy.
Exactly. You can’t walk into teaching, so let’s stop telling people they can.
And there are multiple praxis exams. Some have a 40% pass rate.
The praxis exams are easy. The poor pass rate is related to the group that tends to take them.
Anonymous
02/15/2025 19:23
Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote: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.
Mind saying where she attends and whether it's online or in person?
CPAs are supposedly going to lose their jobs to ai.
Anonymous
02/15/2025 19:21
Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote: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.
You and the person who keep posting about grand salaries for walmart managers live on a different planet.
Substitute teachers get paid nothing. Fast food is better. There are very few walmart managers making a reasonable salary and they have to live in very lcol areas. The other fun fact is that in lcol areas, there is huge competition for those jobs. In those areas, kids have a hard time finding jobs because they compete against adults who take those jobs seriously. Those lcol areas don't have great job opportunities so even a retail manager job is hard to get.
Anonymous
02/15/2025 19:18
Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote: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.
Mind saying where she attends and whether it's online or in person?
She is at the University of Arizona but almost every school that offers a MAcc has that program. Her program is on campus, but ASU has a fully online option and it's a nice program because its a MAcc with data analytics concentration. She really liked that one but wanted an on campus option and did not want to sit out the spring semester (ASU has fall only start for on-campus and fall or spring start for online). Michigan State is one that comes to mind. There are many others out there.
Anonymous
02/15/2025 19:09
Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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?
The last four years of being told it was The Best Economy Ever™️.
You don't understand how angry people were to be ignored and mocked when we were all struggling.
Go ahead keep cheering on fed layoffs because you've suffered, why shouldn't they. Go ahead - that's your right. But know that as you cheer on this administration's moves, it WILL bite you and yours in the ass even if you have nothing to do with the fed govt. Any teachers in your family? Dept of Ed funding cuts already have schools talking about how they'll need to lay off teachers and make classrooms bigger; special needs or ESL teachers lol that all counts as DEI now. Anyone in healthcare? All the research $ cuts, Medicare, Medicaid - means health systems will start reassessing how many nurses and techs every drs office or health system really needs. Anyone with any job in any discretionary retail - if people are buying less they need fewer of everyone from floor staff to execs in the marketing and finance departments. Anyone in real estate - that sector grinds to a halt in recessions. Anyone working in any manufacturing type companies - with tariffs, those manufacturers will buy fewer parts; thus less need for everyone from the factory floor to the execs in finance. Get the picture? But go ahead keep cheering bc now it's your turn to mock them lazy feds.
This- it is all connected. We should be terrified of the impact not giddily gleeful.
Anonymous
02/15/2025 19:09
Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote: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.
I work in the private sector, in a white collar job that has had layoffs. Do you think laying off the government employees will help the private sector folks?
I understand why no one has sympathy for you as you seem to be a nasty individual.
Anonymous
02/15/2025 19:04
Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Teaching! Can get hired immediately.
I need people to stop posting this. You can’t just walk into teaching.
It requires licensure. And even if you do an alternative route program, it’s going to take some time. You need special ed credits, reading credits, Praxis scores (or the equivalent), student teaching experience or time with a mentor, etc. And after all that, you need to survive your first classroom on your own.
I know people think this job is easy and anyone can do it, but that simply isn’t true. We have so many shortages right now because so many people can’t or don’t want to put up with the demands.
UDC had a one year MA program not long ago. Praxis was easy.
Exactly. You can’t walk into teaching, so let’s stop telling people they can.
And there are multiple praxis exams. Some have a 40% pass rate.
Anonymous
02/15/2025 19:03
Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
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.
Mind saying where she attends and whether it's online or in person?
Anonymous
02/15/2025 19:03
Subject: Re:Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
I'll finally have to join an MLM pyramid scheme and work my way to the top!
Anonymous
02/15/2025 19:02
Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:FCPS I think has an open house re teaching
That’s another job you can’t just walk into. You need, at the very least, to be on a path toward certification. That requires taking courses, etc.
You can sub.
Not really true. You can take 40 years on that path
Toward certification? My district fires you if you aren’t fully certified within a year.
Anonymous
02/15/2025 19:02
Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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?
The last four years of being told it was The Best Economy Ever™️.
You don't understand how angry people were to be ignored and mocked when we were all struggling.
Go ahead keep cheering on fed layoffs because you've suffered, why shouldn't they. Go ahead - that's your right. But know that as you cheer on this administration's moves, it WILL bite you and yours in the ass even if you have nothing to do with the fed govt. Any teachers in your family? Dept of Ed funding cuts already have schools talking about how they'll need to lay off teachers and make classrooms bigger; special needs or ESL teachers lol that all counts as DEI now. Anyone in healthcare? All the research $ cuts, Medicare, Medicaid - means health systems will start reassessing how many nurses and techs every drs office or health system really needs. Anyone with any job in any discretionary retail - if people are buying less they need fewer of everyone from floor staff to execs in the marketing and finance departments. Anyone in real estate - that sector grinds to a halt in recessions. Anyone working in any manufacturing type companies - with tariffs, those manufacturers will buy fewer parts; thus less need for everyone from the factory floor to the execs in finance. Get the picture? But go ahead keep cheering bc now it's your turn to mock them lazy feds.
Anonymous
02/15/2025 19:02
Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Teaching! Can get hired immediately.
I need people to stop posting this. You can’t just walk into teaching.
It requires licensure. And even if you do an alternative route program, it’s going to take some time. You need special ed credits, reading credits, Praxis scores (or the equivalent), student teaching experience or time with a mentor, etc. And after all that, you need to survive your first classroom on your own.
I know people think this job is easy and anyone can do it, but that simply isn’t true. We have so many shortages right now because so many people can’t or don’t want to put up with the demands.
UDC had a one year MA program not long ago. Praxis was easy.
Anonymous
02/15/2025 19:02
Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
thanks again, Trump voters.
Anonymous
02/15/2025 19:00
Subject: Where are the laid off feds supposed to work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:FCPS I think has an open house re teaching
That’s another job you can’t just walk into. You need, at the very least, to be on a path toward certification. That requires taking courses, etc.
You can sub.
Not really true. You can take 40 years on that path