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Things going nowhere on personal and professional front :(
Feel like giving up…………..
 
vicky, feels kinda sad to see you like this. feels like just yesterday you were a young CFA L1 / L2 candidate waving your CFA banner screaming Rah! Rah! full steam ahead!
So now reality is sinking in that passing these tests alone isn’t the guaranteed golden ticket it appeared to be.
Don’t worry, many years ago, I was under the same illusion. Hard to believe eh?
 
itera wrote:
vicky, feels kinda sad to see you like this. feels like just yesterday you were a young CFA L1 / L2 candidate waving your CFA banner screaming Rah! Rah! full steam ahead!
So now reality is sinking in that passing these tests alone isn’t the guaranteed golden ticket it appeared to be.
Don’t worry, many years ago, I was under the same illusion. Hard to believe eh?
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will have to live, if not for myself , then others
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these threads should start with “Dear Diary..”
 
Vicky, there’s no sense in coming on here and looking for sympathy. No one cares with the exception of itera who gets off on such woes due to his sadistic personality (which is perhaps warranted as he is likely a modern day Louis Skolnick). Everyone has problems, especially within the last 6 or 7 years…. I had a moment of despair last week when I was told after a third round interview that the fund was going with someone else. No doubt this would have been a dream job and I felt like a boxer who had hit the mat from a devestating uppercut and couldn’t muster the courage/desire to get up and keep fighting. I somehow recouped over the weekend and had two interviews today. The morning interview was mediocre at best and the pay was well below what I was hoping to make. The second interview was with a “RIA” who needed a PM/Analyst. I drove out to the boondocks and walked in to a barnlike building only to be pitched the opportunity to “become my own boss”. I felt like one of those poor saps who got suckered in to an interview to sell steak knifes. What usually would have erupted into a bout of roadrage on the way home had me laughing instead. I was reminded of cheesy 80’s songs (shout out to you Skolnick!) like Howard Jones’ Things Can Only Get Better and my personal favorite The Finer Things by Steve Winwood. I just don’t care at this point. I’ve been rejected or had things not go my way so much recently that I’m numb to it all. I just don’t give a shit anymore. I’ll keep at it and with enough preparation I’ll be able to capitalize when an opportunity should arise. I don’t know your situation but your probably discouraged because you’ve dedicated your life to a non-existent career while watching your friends cruise by you in terms of career, girls, family, et cetera. At this point what are your alternatives? Could you easily switch careers into a high paying occupation and become an international playboy overnight or is it more likely that you are on the cusp of attaining what you’ve been working so hard for over the past few years? Probably the latter although it will require more hard work and aggressive patience (if that makes sense lol). Your other options are likely less attractive than staying on course, so I would just man up and keep at it.
 
tyler. dude.
1) get over hating man.
2) OP is a girl.
 
know its a rant
But i cant share this in office for obvious reasons. Nor want to share with family as it will make them sad
This forum is the only place i can vent it out.
 
Vicky,
The best thing you can do for yourself right now is probably to turn off this computer, close your books, and go make some friends in the real world. When things are so bad (or feel so bad) you can’t talk about them with your family or colleagues, you need friends - not a bunch of digitalized strangers like me who don’t know the first thing about your life, but real human beings who know you, your culture, your background and who can look you in the eye when you tell them your story.
There are great people on this forum, but you sound rather lonely, and an online forum is not the best place to truly fix that. Go out, get involved with your community, help others, get to know the people around you, get interested in their lives rather than just worry about yours, and who knows, you may start to feel better.
 
On august 12th you will have a new perspective. Back to the books or onto the next challenge. This state of flux is uncomfortable to all of us.
While most of us on this forum can’t be held accountable for what we say and therefore say whatever we want and thus are full if s:|t most of the time, it’s not a bad place to vent. Different than face to face but still a legitment place to sort things out.
Hang in there, many in the same boat as you.
 
hahahaha had a breakup with gf after 4 yr relation . Alongside had a car accident this week
Life is gr8
 
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