Charter schools gpa rates

I’ll go first! My cancer had a high success rate, so I didn’t beat the odds exactly, but I am now a professional model and going to my dream school! I am a public speaker and have met with a lot of people in the cancer industry and am hopefully making a difference :)
Also just wanted to say I hope this can be one of the more positive threads in a realist and sometimes scary topic. Please read or respond if you just need support or want to support others!

So eto gusto ko lang mag post about sa life ko na pagod na ako Galing ako sa pamilya na may kaya naman, pero broken family. Nung bata pa ako kami lang ng totoong mama ko ang magkasama pero suportado ni papa. Tapos kinuha ako nila papa kasi may kalokohan ginawa ang mama ko pero mga nasa around 10-11 years old na ako neto. At simula nun wala na kami connection ng mama ko pero I dont feel bad kasi mas pinili pa niya kalokohan kesa sakin.
Never ko na try magkaroon ng childhood life dahil sa murang edad andami ko na iniisip na hindi dapat iniisip ng isang bata. Ang dami kong tanong. In short naging aware ako sa mga ganap sa buhay ko pero di lang nila alam na ang daming ko naiisip at na rerealize at madami ding tanong na di masagot.
Nung nasa elementary, high school, senior high ako competetive pa ako acads at sa chess fide rating pumapalo palo naman rating ko. Pero di ako santo syempre may bisyo din hehe inom dito inom doon tapos smoke smoke. Btw Graduate na ako recently lang.
Then I have this 1 girl na sobra ko mahal tumagal kami mag almost 3 years, she was my first. to make the story short nag cheat siya, ayun ending nag break kami.
Ngayon naman ang dami ko iniisip sa future ko lalo na ngayon, na parang di ko kakayanin tong board exam, papano pag di ako pumasa, papano kung nag tagal ako na di pa nakakapasa paano na future ko. Stop telling me to pray because never na ako nag pray nung grade 5 ako. F*ck parang gusto ko nalang walang gawin na nakakapagod tong utak na to. Nakaka drain maging ako, Nakakapagod matuto, Nakakapagod magpatuloy sa buhay, nakakapagod lumaban.

In April, I was elected to my college's student council executive. It's not like I beat out a bunch of people for the role; no one else had put their name in by the last day of the nomination period, and I thought I could do it, so I put my name in.
However, difficulties I've had with the college have made me a bit bitter. I was told through the school year that a co-op would count towards my mandatory work term if it matched my program. So as an accounting student, I got a co-op placement in an accounting department. It's a perfect fit, but two weeks after I started I was then told by the college that co-ops don't count. Plus the team on the college's end kept dropping the ball on getting me registered, to the point where there were three times I almost lost the placement because of them, and there was so little transparency in the whole process that I really didn't have any information on what to actually expect on the coursework side of things (had I had all the information, I doubt I would have signed up). All in all, I feel cheated and lied to about this, and already decided that I'm not doing any extra-curriculars beyond what I've already signed up for. Pending exceptions for one-off things that I could drop in on whenever I felt like it, but nothing that requires any sort of actual commitment. I know the student council and the college as a whole aren't that connected overall (it's hard to explain), and that's why I was conflicted on this point; if they were connected, I would have very quickly said to hell with it and quit the same day.
There are also supposed to be periodic executive meetings with the organization that sort of oversees the councils at each campus, but I can't make them. I've been upfront about my work schedule, saying I can't do anything until about 5:30 through the week, but the latest time slot for these meetings is always 3. And nothing on the weekends, when I could do that time of day. So it's making me feel like I can't actually participate. I've been in my role for a month now, and I haven't been able to do anything.
It's been a little over two weeks now that I've been contemplating this, and honestly, the only reason I can think of to stick with it is "it looks good on a resume." But I'm also in a situation where I don't really want to do it anymore.
At the rate things are going, I'm almost certainly going to do up an email this weekend explaining the situation, that I'll be in Monday to pick up my stuff, and then will work on trying to contact the person I need to contact to drop my key to the office off. I just need to talk to someone though, and make sure I'm not going to regret this.

My husband and I are 23 & 25. We have two kids ages 6 and 2. We both grew up in the same city, both of our families our here, and my husband works here. Downside, it’s so expensive here. My husband makes 105k a year, and I make about 12k from my part time remote job. So 117k a year total. My husband is getting a pay raise next february to 125k. We have been looking to buy since we want to have roots here now that our daughter is entering the 1st grade and has many friends and we love her school. We toured a home the other day and fell in love. It hits all the boxes for us. We made an offer of 496k. The sellers received an offer of 510k but still chose us because they watched us on there security cameras and really liked us.
Now we are struggling, seeing how our monthly house payment (absolutely everything including property taxes, insurance, utilities, etc) would be 3,600. That has us absolutely terrified. Our rent now for a cheap townhouse is 1900. So the jump will be big. We are getting a FHA loan so we only have to put about 45k down, but that’s literally 90% of our savings. Fixed interest rate is 7.5.
We are at a loss of what to do. Everything is adding up perfectly for this house. It’s a dream and something we could see ourselves in for many, many years. The neighborhood is perfect for us and our kids. But that monthly payment is SCARY & will be scary until my husbands pay bump next year.
Is this an awful decision if we buy this house? Is it smart?

From what people seem to be saying, only the GPA matters. Is this true? Will a 4.0 in an art degree weigh the same as a 4.0 in a biology degree? I genuinely enjoy biology, and would like to have just pursued the biology degree, but if it hurts my chances of being admitted into PA school, I’ll have to reconsider.

I applied to u of h for their 2024- 25 fall semester and spring semester on April 21st. They have yet to get back to me, is this a bad sign? My major is nursing and my minor is philosophy. I have a 3.8 gpa and I was top 20% in my highschool class. Also I was able to opt out on the SAT/ACT whole thing 😭 guys please help me, this is one off my top schools and I'm scared

Hey everyone. Title pretty much says it all. I’ve hit a point of fustration when it comes to my training. For reference, I have about 25 hours, train at a really busy delta airport. And am getting ready to solo. To solo at my school we have to have all maneuvers for the checkride and EPs down to ACS standards before we are signed off.
I’m at the point where I’m learning landings. Which is the last thing we do. Some are good. But most aren’t very good. Thankfully nothing that’s been unsafe or dangerous. The problem is, I have less than 40 landings under my belt in this time. Mainly due to the fact that I maybe get 2-3 shots at getting to land in a lesson. One time I only got one landing in and got billed for 2 hours of plane time an CFI time. We cannot do touch and goes, only full stops taxi back. The most fustrating thing to me is I have to pay upwards of $1000 to maybe practice 4 landings. $200 an hour for the plane $90 for instruction. 90% of the time In this phase is waiting on the ground, waiting for the cfi to show up or taxiing. It’s extremely frustrating cause I genuinely want to be better but at this rate I’ll have to stop training cause I’ll run out of money. On top of this, my CFI doesn’t really say much. Kinda just is quiet the whole time and doesn’t give me any feedback at all. Any suggestions? I know my landings need work but at this rate it’s gonna take me forever and thousands of dollars to get good at them.

My take is Long Lining is more efficient bc trawling in this game is worse and less consistent than in the previous game (Berents Sea). I consistently get Long Lines of anywhere from 70,000 lbs as high as 170,000 lbs from a single 10,000 hook Long Line. I’d say average is close to maybe 90,000 lbs.
With trawling, I sometimes drop and get 20-30% pretty quick. But it can take forever to get the trawl net to 40% or beyond. And it takes a fairly long while to haul in the net and process the catch, depending on depth.
While you don’t sacrifice in game days/time waiting for lines to soak, in terms of real life $$ to time spent, long lining especially w 10,000 hook lines seems far more efficient.
They’re not updating this game anymore but I wish they’d have made it so you more consistently catch fish with the trawl net even only at a slow rate when somewhat near a school of fish. The endgame boats should beat out long lining handily. And the Lunar Bow is actually pretty garbage.

First time posting on here, hoping it makes me feel better more than anything.
I am the eldest of 3 girls in my family. We have a pretty large age gap in between us all, but all of us are adults at this point. I am the only one so far with children. With my first marriage, we had two beautiful children together. I became a widow at 25, shortly after our youngest was born and that was a very hard part in my life to deal with (still is to be honest). Skip to present day. I have a husband that treats both children as his own. Working full time, I help run a family business that my mother owns while also juggling my two children with school/life stuff. Bills are paid. We are not rich by any means but we keep the kids happy and busy with savings just in case.
My two sisters still live at home. One is on a separate piece of the land while the other is still in the main part of the home. Neither one has had any kind of serious dating experiences or many social outings that they partake in. They go to work and come home to hang out at home. Recently they all decided to book a trip on a cruise. Initially I was super excited for them to all be going. Thinking more of what a great trip for my mom to finally have a break from the business, but as the actual departure date arrived, I feel more like the Cinderella child that got left behind.
Here are the few things that struck me the hardest. When telling people about the trip, my mother told people how it "Was so nice that the whole family was going.". Guess I am no longer part of the family. I wasn't even invited on this trip. My mother did iterate that my sisters were paying all parts of their trips, but found that to be not entirely truthful. My mother used her airline miles to get free airfare for them and got the group rate between everyone, so they MOSTLY paid for their trip. I am sure they figured I couldn't afford it or swing child care. Probably accurate to be honest. Still hurts. Then about a week before they left, I found out that they would be meeting up with quite a few members of family close to their departure spot for the cruise. They only let me know about it so I wouldn't be surprised by pictures posted on social media.
So they are on their cruise. I am minding the store with another employee (thank goodness for her) and watching their house, cleaning it, and tending to their animals. It is a smaller farm but it has farm animals that need tending to about 3 times a day. The kids are having fun just running around the property helping me feed everyone. I just keep feeling really empty wondering why I am the black sheep. What did I do to not be wanted around? I am trustworthy enough to watch their business, house, and animals. I just feel like because I moved out and had a life, I am no longer worthy of their family status. Am I reading too much into all this? I just hate feeling this sad and not loved like my sisters are. I am tired of feeling like I put so much effort into doing things for them and it just not being quite as good as what my siblings are doing.
I am the black sheep for whatever reason. Maybe one day they will tell me what the heck I did to earn the title.

Set in the 1950s, a troubled teen from a troubled family gets sent to an elite boarding school. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel, this is a compelling film about coming of age under difficult circumstances.
Andreas Wilson leads an ensemble cast of unknowns who brings this story to life. This is not your typical Hollywood fare, and it is hard to watch at times. I will add a trigger warning. But it's all extremely believable.
As someone who doesn't like to read summaries of what a movie is about, I watched this because it won an Oscar for best foreign language film. The ratings are mixed, but I think that's because this movie will not be everyone's cup of tea.
But I recommend it. It was time well-spent.

Just started studying for the LSAT (like 10 days in with 8 hours or less or total studying) and I have taken three PTs at 157 158 and 161. I’m hoping for a 170 and I’m taking the August and September LSATs (is this realistic?).
I’ll be applying for fall 2025 with a 3.7 GPA.
Trying to best capitalize on scholarship (full rides? Stipends?) while not neglecting rank.
What schools do y’all think I should apply to/ will have good chances at based on these stats?
Went to small undergrad in the Midwest if that matters.

So, we need a scenario, where some Skalgans are rescued before the Federation gets too far into their plan.
As discussed on the discord today... shout out to my fellow idea-mongers!
Suppose there is a faction of Farsul, The Hidden Path, that disagrees with the Kolshians' plans for the galaxy, after observing the activity performed on/with the Krakotl.
This faction goes into silent rebellion, and works in secret to preserve all sapient cultures, as they are, by abducting just enough of each to ensure genetic viability and delivering them to a hidden colonies.
And they have been doing this ever since.
Now you have a viable undiscovered source of many of each type of every race, with pre-federation culture intact.
...commence with the hijinks you envision.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:00 PM Mileau is all Mesas, with Slot canyons in between; the mesas all extend above breathable atmosphere.
I made that sht up. No one has ever described the surface of Mileau except me. Hah!*
uktabi (Clear Skies, Foxholes) — 02/29/2024 1:08 PM its canon now mileau has a thin atmosphere and a fast spin. it throws off basically all atmosphere except for what gets trapped in the slot canyons. idk anything that im talking about
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:13 PM THe canyons are 2-3 km wide, and llike 10 km deep; agriculture happens in the canyons that run "east" to "west". Most of the food grows on tree vines that climb up the walls of the canyon; these have trunks bigger than redwoods at the base. WHen you look at Mileau from above, the entire surface looks like a dried lake bed.
uktabi (Clear Skies, Foxholes) — 02/29/2024 1:15 PM if theyre photosynthesis, plant life in canyons would probably have HEAVY bias in evolving to compete for sunlight
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:15 PM hence the growing up the walls.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:16 PM the north south canyons are barren. most of the water lies underground, and it's movement forms huge cave systems at that level.
uktabi (Clear Skies, Foxholes) — 02/29/2024 1:16 PM they'd probably have all sorts of like, choking out competitors. specialized tendrils that try to choke out competitors. evolutionary arms race and all
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:17 PM so, there is also cave ecology going on at a grand scale as well.
uktabi (Clear Skies, Foxholes) — 02/29/2024 1:18 PM hmmm are dossur adapted to low light environments?
The ☴☴° — 02/29/2024 1:18 PM I think that they would have some.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:19 PM Yes. But also... Mileau's star is a very large one, so the habitable ring is 5 times further out; the cycles are 5 years long, and winter is a full year. so they have a long hibernation period every 5 years.
uktabi (Clear Skies, Foxholes) — 02/29/2024 1:20 PM a cave system being a consistent environment despite seasons might help temper that though
The ☴☴° — 02/29/2024 1:20 PM Large stars have exponentially shorter lives, just a warning.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:23 PM It's not like it's Y-Scuti.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:24 PM THey eveolves to remember everything they hear while they "sleep" so, if you were to search the ventilation systems at the School of the flora, you'd find dossur sleeping near every vent by the lecture halls. "They are in the walls" is a true statement.
The ☴☴° — 02/29/2024 1:26 PM They'd better have good taste in poetry. As they drive next generation's minds into predator disease.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:26 PM This is why they've come from stone-age to space age in under 100 years. THey pick up every class, all day long. then they go test out at the end of the semester, CLEP style, and run off with a degree after 8 months. they also record everything, and take the recordings back to Mileau; the next round of sleepers is in a cave containing thousands of Dossur there. It's a knowledge factory.
Mecha Kid (Solar Wind, Spec Ops) — 02/29/2024 1:31 PM Suddenly happy I never defined the surface features of Mileau in Spec Ops Also, concussions are a bitch, right @Julian Skies (Blackriver Cases) ?
Julian Skies (Blackriver Cases) — 02/29/2024 1:33 PM Acroyear's version of the dossur would find like souls in the Consortium
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:34 PM Since Mileau has so little livable space (from the Federation's perspective) the Federation ignores it. Most of the land receiving sunlight is completely dedicated to raising the crops, and the Dossur live in tiny caves drilled into the mesas.
Ben_KenoBEEG (NoA) — 02/29/2024 1:38 PM I just realized, could the Dossur possibly have a planet with over 100 billion people on it, considering their size and how little of a carbon footprint they leave
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:40 PM they've only come up from the stone age in the past 100 years or so... having spent most of that time eliminating the natural predators of Mileau... (which happen to look a Lot like... Krakotl).
"The silver mountain descended from the heavens on pillars of white fire... and death himself rode in it."
dankboy9000 — 02/29/2024 1:43 PM Ah yes, the Man on the Silver Mountain
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:43 PM More like the bird. in any case, the Dossur have harnessed the winds that flow through the canyons as an energy source, and have started building Giant solar farms on the mesa tops, now that they have space technology.
dankboy9000 — 02/29/2024 1:46 PM Arizonacore
Spectralstorm — 02/29/2024 1:59 PM Dossur "re-education" programme where they just yell "predators are bad" over and over while the dossur are hibernating
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:59 PM It's another fic, that's all. The feds don't know that this is how it works. It's part of the Dossur conspiracy. That's why no one has ever seen a Dossur that's not ginger colored. In my head-canon, there are also white ones, brown ones, blond ones, spotted ones, roans, and of course... black ones! and... FLying ones!
The ☴☴° — 02/29/2024 2:08 PM This is why they attacked Mileau.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 6:12 PM I have this image of the Dossur colonizing every park and forested area throughout the federation... ...in secret, of course.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 6:09 PM Have we been told how many colonies there are? I know of at least one, where Veln originated from.
Thirsha (Tight Money) — 11/30/2023 6:10 PM no
Killsode-Slugcat — 11/30/2023 6:26 PM the planetary thoughts Egg has is that there's big oceans on the dayward side that evaporate and then send water back to the nightward side where its then frozen, depositied on glaciers that then progressand melt, creating rivers that feed back into the oceans thus sustaining a full water cycle of course, there's also spots of rain along the way, and if there was a mountain range in the right spot it'd be rained on nearly non-stop on the dayside
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 6:23 PM I also Recall a beach scene from another Fic I read recently, but I don't remember it. It was up near the burning.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 6:29 PM Yeah, based on pure physics, the twilight and green likely get a ton of precipitation from the night. The day and burning get few to no rainstorms and are probably sustained by the rivers and desalination of the oceans
Killsode-Slugcat — 11/30/2023 6:29 PM well, not sure if they'd get it from the night god the weather patterns would be alllll over the place @Brick we really need your help on figuring those out.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 6:30 PM I think there's mention of Heavy Monsoon activity due to the wobble.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:17 PM What was the question
Killsode-Slugcat — 11/30/2023 7:17 PM ah, the weather patterns of VP, and how the hell the atmopshere moves
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:18 PM My god
Killsode-Slugcat — 11/30/2023 7:18 PM since uh, if there's constant wind coming from the sunward side, atmosphere somehow has to get to the sunward side to replace it.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:18 PM Without geography Uhhhhhhh
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:18 PM Not quite according to the paper I posted earlier the surface flow would come from the night rather than the day
Killsode-Slugcat — 11/30/2023 7:19 PM going with the idea that the water cycle is power by oceans near the sun side the bring water to the night side where its then deposited and flows back to the oceans?
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:19 PM Surface flow favors convergence at the hot side ad divergence on the cold side meaning the surface flow overall would be from the cold to the warm but at upper levels it's reversed But this is overall geography, location of oceans, planetary rotation and more would make this much more complex
OmegaMon02 (NoC,TTS,MiM,GE,PoT) — 11/30/2023 7:20 PM Air cools on night, blasts the venlil, warms in the day, travels on top of cold wind, big wind storms deep into the day and night
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:20 PM Were it so easy...
Beyonce what I can think about without a pencil, paper and other things.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:21 PM SO, on Skalga... not much daily rotation.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:21 PM In terms of tropospheric dynamics I really can't say right now On the other hand If VP is on a tilt That raises a whole set of other issues For example places where the sun sets for half a year and raises for the other half It is not easy to make any educated judgments without having a cannon geography.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:23 PM THere's the whole Paw wobble bit, but I don't think you'd get much variation off of it.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:24 PM Yeah axis wobble is something on MUCH longer time scales up towards thousands of years iirc
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:24 PM it feels like the axis of the planet points at the Sun for the most part.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:24 PM Meanwhile a tilted spin axis will cause seasonal sunsets that last different amounts of time beyond certain latitudes The axis of the planet has nothing to do with the sun, at one point it will face away from the sun and half a year later it'll.face towards That's why we get seasons and differential day length on earth
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:25 PM right, but with Skalga being tidally locked...
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:25 PM Nothing to do with it That is a manner of rate of rotation not axial tilt The rate of revolution is equal to the rate of rotation meaning one side faces the star at all times But a tilted axis can cause the area to essentially shift up and down
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:28 PM so depending on the tilt of the access, those parts of Skalga would have day, and night cycles that last for about half the year.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:28 PM Yup Think of how the solstices work on earth. Provided you're at a latitude that experiences them just, more extreme The further into the light side you go the shorter the "night" lasts
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:30 PM 👍 We were considering what the sizes of the oceans were.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:30 PM Weather is dictated a lot by geography as well as overall circulation I haven't figured out if there would be a jet or something different
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:31 PM yes, windward and Lee sides of mountain ranges would make a difference. I was thinking heavy monsoon winds.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:32 PM Yes while the windward side would be very dry the leeward side would experience in my current opinion almost constant rain It really depends on how well heat exchanges But I can't get too deep into this now. Btw this is what I study at university.
Btw this is what I study at uni
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:32 PM Perhaps I got my terminology backwards I am become atmospheric scientist.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:33 PM Good chat sorry to jet.
Julian Skies (Blackriver Cases) — 11/30/2023 7:35 PM Bahaha, jet!
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:35 PM Hey, being near water is not the same as being IN water.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:35 PM I mean the planet is like this ☀️ 🟥🟨🟩🟪🟦 (I'm trying my best) cold weather brings rain or snow. So @Brick is right, lots of rain moving from twilight to green. Less in day.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:36 PM depends on what the source of the water is. if there are oceans on the day side, that would provide moisture in the upper levels. where the convection moves in the opposite direction.
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:37 PM oceans have to exist at some point if there's enough water to sustain global-spanning life.
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:38 PM Also, I have a reason for each of the coastal locations. Muller's Bay is found upon illict activities. Stepping Stones basically had no choice but to exist due it being an island chain. Mellowgale is an rare mountainous type of coastal, hence the Greek vibes.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:39 PM the day side may have giant, untapped aquifers. not much written about it, so I don't really know. but I could see the venlil living under ground in the hotter parts.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:41 PM I can see that a nice portion of the rivers from colder half flow underground. Could sustain lots of people and crops
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:41 PM sort of a Coober Pedy situation. for about the same reasons.
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:42 PM imagine having the Green double in size during the timeskip due to humanity interventing. oof, both good and bad.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:42 PM depends on what kind of geo-engineering is done, if any.
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:43 PM mostly geo-engineering for preventing Sahara-ification.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:43 PM yeah, permaculture water harvesting would definitely be a thing. if they can build a planet encircling maglev, they could build some major pipelines runninlg along the meridians as well.
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:45 PM They DID build an maglev ring, you're right.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:45 PM with the right kind of valves and insulation, they could use antifreeze to act as a giant heat pump.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:45 PM I bet they have biiiig wells to use for cities or for watering plants.
Animesh — 11/30/2023 7:46 PM Wait. Is the entire venlil prime just The Line (tm) project?
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:48 PM Possibly. I don't know the full particulars on the Line, so can't answer that. but I could see them doing a lot of Al Baydha-like projects. btu again, that is dependent on the landforms, and where the water flows to and from. I mean, BiasMushroom has Frozen Mountain set up as a city in the Nightside, close to the terminator. it you get some form of heat loving trees with deep, deep roots, then it's possible that they might shade areas of the burning enough to be survivable. so that gets back to the questions about where the water bodies are.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:56 PM I think they could form in the day but dry up in the burning.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:56 PM yes, but what about under the dayside, where the aquifers may be.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:57 PM Probably near rivers but could realistically be anywhere I mean, there are aquifers all over earth so really it's hard to disprove any specific location
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:57 PM a lot of it depends on how the water flows, and what geological formations there are. a karst type of situation could lead to lots of caves with chimney windows and underground jungles.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:58 PM Hell in the southwest US, sandstone cliffs and mountains are aquifers. They are stuffed full of water. Without specific info, it's really up to us to decide. Which is neat!
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:59 PM a hard layer of earth over a soft limesone layer, with water flowing, would lead to huge cave systesm. there could be entire, undiscovered biomes like that, possibly housing pre-federation Venlils.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 8:03 PM Perhaps. Though I worry for how they'd live
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 8:04 PM if there's flowing water, then there's probably fungi, and things eating the fungi. Anyway, I leave the speculations here, for your consideration.
Thirsha (Tight Money) — 11/30/2023 9:08 PM massive cave systems with underground rivers and a lot of life that lives in the dark but due to the presence of predators, venlil are afraid of them and since they are hell to clear out, the exterminators try to keep the predators in the caverns instead only killing them when they wander too close to the settlements.
I hope you have enjoyed this as much as I have!

Been neurotically looking at the tmdsas report of gpa and mcat on their website and 2023 looks fine but then 2024 shows like a 25% acceptance rate. Is it that it hasn’t updated till the end of the cycle or is it just that bad this year?

I’ll do my best to be brief about the last 10years. I started out in a bad high school with abusive parents. I almost didn’t graduate but with hard work I caught up and got myself into community college. I intended to transfer to a four year college to study Architecture. I spent 3 years at community college studying art and design and left with a graphic design associates degree and a 4.0 gpa. I decided to go to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) which was a huge mistake. Originally, I thought it would be a good option as it’s a highly respected art school. When I got in I quickly learned that I would be struggling badly financially as the professors would tell us to leave class and go buy supplies and be back in an hour, not leaving me anytime to scour for the best deal or find a free option. The other students were wealthier than I could have imagined. That’s okay, I was there to work hard. I soon after learned that their Architecture program was their least funded and it showed. The classes were awful and the professor pulled me out of class one day to ask me for advice. He said I was the only one who understood the assignments and what did I think was wrong with my classmates. The school began warning me that something was wrong with my loans and that if it didn’t get resolved I wouldn’t be able to attend class anymore. I was too young to take out the loan, it was under my mom’s name so she had to be the one to sort it out. I still to this day don’t know what happened but I got booted from school because my mother is evil. I was struggling not to be homeless as I was dependent on the loan money for housing. Many years later I now think my mother gambled my loan money away as it was a private loan that could be used for anything. But I don’t like the idea of being a victim as it leaves me powerless. I blame myself for not working harder and taking advantage of the privilege I had. My next mistake, I moved back in with my parents assuming that’s what parents were for. I could figure out what my next steps were. Wrong. My family situation blew up, the detail’s irrelevant to this question. I was now fearing homelessness and was no longer in Chicago where I atleast had two part time jobs and friends. So I sort of panic made the decision to move in with some roommates off craigslist and I found a job at a hair salon. I began working really hard at the salon working the front desk. I started at $10/hour and in 3 months was making $16. I put so much effort into this job. I was always interested in hair so I started working on getting my hair license, all paid by the salon owner. I suddenly got very sick from both the chemicals at the salon and probably not taking care of my physical health. I spent a year without doctors knowing what was wrong with me and ruling out blood clots, for awhile we thought I could actually die. Once again, I lose my living situation but then the pandemic hits. I started working at a retail shop where the owner agreed to not use chemicals that make me sick or even sell perfume that make me sick. Again, I worked really hard and I’m now the manager. I’ve grown the business. I have a lot of power as I’m not sure the owner would survive without me but I’ve always told him my plan is to leave. 4-5years have flown by and I’m still at this job. It’s not a place that can afford to pay me much. But I’ve spent over 10 years literally just adapting and surviving that I don’t know what I want or what I like. I don’t feel strongly about anything as it hasn’t been an option to in so long. I now realize how important money is because I have no safety net. I have to become strong. The idea of going back to school scares me… the financial burden, the political climate, my health needs, the failure for a well respected school to meet their promises for a great education.
But I want more out of life. I can’t live like this. Currently I’m still on the edge where one wrong move could slip me into homelessness. I’m capable of hard work but I don’t fully know what it’s like to follow through on a solid idea.
I feel like my life is wasting away. My health issues are still a factor otherwise I would have went back to hair.

My 25 year old who looks 12 was discriminated against as she tried to fly from SFO with her dog to move for grad school. She has flown several times with her dog. As per got to the airport 2plus hours before the flight and went to check in at the desk. They told her she could no longer check in there and would need to go to customer service. That line with one employee and 10 customers moved at a rate of 20 minutes per person. She realized that would never work even with the two hours she had. She ask several unbusy floating employees. They picked out some people flying to LAX so they could make their plane. However, they kept discounting her. When she finally reached the front they told her it was too late and didn’t offer an apology, the ability to rebook or even a refund. They told her to call to get a refund or to rebook. Each time she tried they disconnected her. She was to begin grad school in social work the next day. She ended up booking with United and was late to her program. If you change the rules on how to check in with a pet. Make sure you’re properly staffed. Never assume just because someone looks nice, young or is polite that you don’t have to provide them with the same service you give everyone else. Shame on you American!

Hi all,
I’m a May 2024 grad from a top public university. I did a BA in Econ and a minor in data science and creative writing. My gpa is 3.5 but I had an internship every summer except senior year. These were in accounting adjacent roles. I was supposed to be applying to jobs and learning skills last summer and senior year. My mental health wasn’t the best and I barely applied. I really started this April and got a couple of interviews for various roles like Hmarketing/accounting.
I got into a Masters of Accounting program last year. It’s at the same school I attended and is highly ranked for accounting.
My goal is to find a job that has good work life balance (can be later down the line), security, and a high salary (to support my family). I’m torn between deferring enrollment to July 2025 (to continue job searching) or doing the MAC this July.
Reasons to do MAC:

• I’ve done accounting work and it is okay/easy
• I've done data analytics work and it was difficult (though intro to Python was easy for me)
• If I defer enrollment and don’t find anything I’ll be a year behind
• Most of the jobs I’m applying for (financial analyst, data analytics) can likely be achieved down the line with MAC
• Other careers I’m interested in like IT or UX design only need certs/portfolios so I can pursue them later (but then I'd already have invested in accounting and wouldn't want to pivot into entry level roles)
• Every job I’m interested in exploring are competitive/oversaturated and the job market is bad
• I come out of MAC with a job (accounting is very secure)
• Risk of recruiting for jobs after MAC, and having to explain the gap year
• I probably could get a job with just my bachelors, but I don't know how likely it is that job has steady salary progression like accounting

Reasons to do gap year to see if I can find a career not in accounting:

• 36k cost for a career I’m not passionate about
• Learning accounting/finance doesn't feel fulfilling. When I dig into the "why" it comes down to rules that people made up instead of something tangible (but project finance seems like I could "make a difference")
• Feel like I should aim for a field with better pay. Not that I don’t have respect for accounting. If I could go back, I major in accounting. But I spent money on this Econ degree. Are there masters that could maximize earning potential more than accounting?
• Two people I've worked with have had a successful accounting career (Controller and CEO). But they say they wouldn’t do accounting again. I see similar sentiments in this reddit. Would you recommend this career to your own children?
• I regret my Econ major and wish I took more time to research/figure things out. If I jump into MAC I could be making the same mistake.
• If I do MAC I will aim for Big4 which is the best path for high salary. This comes with 2-5 years of horrible work life balance and shitty pay. I would be wondering if I could’ve been successful in something not accounting.
• Progressing in accounting seems very dependent on people skills and all high salary positions are managing people. This is not my forte. I feel like I don't fit in with finance people. I don't have mainstream interests. I've noticed all of my friends are in healthcare/CS
• Time to explore and apply to different masters like analytics/stats. Some are much cheaper than MAC and have higher earning potential (this is risky. They seem to be for people already working with data)
• Say I do the gap year and spend my time studying SQL, Python, Excel, Tableau, etc. to get into business/data analyst roles, I can still use those skills in accounting

Thank you for making it to the end. Literally any advice would be appreciated as I feel pretty lost :(

Any thoughts on these majors? I am in between these (and BBA+QSS but leaning toward the two in the title). I am planning to pursue management/strategy consulting, not SWE, but i feel like CS is more marketable. However I feel like I may get a better GPA in math. I don’t really care for programming, i don’t hate it but i don’t like it tbh but I am ok at it. a lot of CS classes (Foundations of CS, ML, etc.) feel much more math oriented which I would like. I also noticed a lot of people saying BBA is better for consulting but McKinsey is one of the top 5 employers for econ majors so I don’t know how much I believe this.
Also as a side note it looks like based on the 5 year outcomes the econ-math people do worse than trad econ majors but i’m guessing that’s because most go to grad school and it’s a much smaller sample size.
I have to pick my major in the next 15 days so any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Progression Fantasy is still a very young subgenre, so I think it fair to forgive it a few growing pains, but...
It's got an economics problem. A real economics problem.
Namely: While there have been quite a few attempts at writing economic progression fantasy, where the MC progresses not just in personal power, but in economic strength (wealth, etc)- remarkably few of them impress me. In fact, the only one that I will outright declare a win is Kyle Kirrin's Shadeslinger. (Which, I should note, is not an attempt to build a functioning "real" economy, but instead to build a functioning videogame economy- a challenging task of its own, and one Kirrin does fantastic at for the purposes of his narrative.) (Also Frank is the best, long live Frank.)
Now, I've hardly exhausted the whole of economic progression fantasy, there's tons of examples I haven't read- but the failed attempts I have read, numbering quite a few, tend to have some fairly similar failure states. (I won't name any of them- I don't generally like speaking ill of other living authors' works,just their politics.)
This is of especial interest to me because I'm literally in the midst of writing an economic progression fantasy. I enjoy reading and writing this stuff! (Though, I should be clear, my upcoming series does not have a commerce-based progression plot- rather, it has a magic system deeply integrated into its economy. Also, it's socialist sword and sorcery.)
So here's a non-exhaustive list of failure states for writing economic progression fantasy, and tips for writing good economic progression fantasy/litrpg. And, while I'm very much a socialist and anti-capitalist, this advice is intended to be useful to anyone writing economic PF, regardless if they share my political and economic leanings. (Though I'm still gonna trash-talk capitalism a bunch lol.) And remember: I call them pitfalls, not rules, because these are not things you're forbidden to do, these are things that are harder to do.
Pitfalls:

• Trying to write the protagonist's organization like a startup, the whole series: Startups can only behave like startups while they're small. Once a company gets big, attempts to continue functioning like a startup will just make the whole thing crash and burn. When you're small, just going "oh, Richard down the hall knows how to fix that" works fine. Once an organization grows in size, Richard down the hall cannot fix the issue for hundreds or thousands of people- there need to be standards and practices in place. And unfortunately, the transition between small agile startup and robust, reliable large business is a REALLY tough one to navigate, and is a spot where corporations frequently fail. This difficulty unfortunately extends to writing about the transition as well- something not helped by an absolutely ridiculous culture of praising startup values at levels ranging from the large mature corporations to schools to national governments! (I blame the VC industry for this silliness- they were largely responsible for an ecosystem where startups could wholly concern themselves with making themselves look good for potential buyers among the large tech firms, rather than care about profitability in any way, shape, or form. This silliness then spread, and... ugh, don't get me on a rant about VCs, it's a stupid industry full of stupid investors who are investing other people's money (often from pension funds) and getting disproportionate rewards on their rare few wins, while being sheltered from their losses, all while ignoring actual due diligence.)
• Trying to write capitalism into a pseudomedieval setting: Medieval Europe was not capitalist, full stop. It was a feudal economy with its own distinct economic systems, often of shocking complexity and international scope. Do you need an accurate medieval economy in your progression fantasy? Probably not, it would be a lot of work to adequately explain it to your readers while logically modifying it to the demands of your magic system. At the same time, however, importing capitalism is a much more demanding challenge, because it relies on certain technologies and social structures that tend to be absent from pseudomedieval fantasy. (I'm importing capitalism into my current pseudomedieval work, but I'm doing it purposefully, and knowing what I'm doing, with a strong (at least for a layman) understanding of both capitalism and medieval economies.
• Mistaking commerce for capitalism: When you go to the corner shop and buy a soda, you're not engaging in capitalism, you're engaging in commerce. In fact, most of use do not actively engage in capitalism in our day to day, though we often act as cogs in it. When I write a book, it's not capitalism, it's labor. When I buy lunch, it's not capitalism, it's commerce. Defining capitalism positively is a trickier endeavor, but generally speaking, you can see it as leveraging capital- high value goods that amplify labor value, like industrial machinery, real estate, or some intellectual property.
• Going too fast in the late stages: Lotta economic PF and LitRPG picks up the pace of economic growth after a slow initial start, which... just doesn't feel right. Large scale expansion is difficult and slow in the real world, and is a much different challenge than the early stages.
• Insufficient delegation: A PF MC that doesn't delegate in their economic organization as it gets large is gonna fail hard, and if they don't and somehow still succeed, it's not gonna read right to readers familiar with economics or the function of large firms.
• Treating economic systems as too stable, especially capitalism: Economic systems screw up on the REGULAR, almost regardless of system. Having an economic system that's just been stable for centuries (hell, for decades) is deeply unrealistic. (Capitalism is especially prone to this, love it or hate it. (You should hate it.) Both socialist and capitalist analyses of capitalism tend to center on crises of capitalism, for good reason. Keynsian economics (or as left and right wingers alike enjoy calling it, for different reasons, Socialism Lite), is almost entirely built around strategies for avoiding, minimizing, and recovering from crises of capitalism.)
• Falling for the Tragedy of the Commons: Look, coordination problems are damn tricky, and a lot of communities have failed at commons management. It's a real challenge with real failure states! But the Tragedy of the Commons in its modern form? Was completely non-empirical, just a bullshit thought experiment white nationalist Garret Hardin made up to advocate for eugenics. There are PLENTY of clever ways small communities manage to share common resources- in fact, this was basically how medieval economics worked! Villages shared most of their grazing land and much of their agricultural land, and had shared common coppicing rights in local forests. (With variances for region and feudal system.) The lords were very seldom managing peasants in their fields. (Why would they want to?) If you want to deep-dive into how small to mid-sized communities can safely manage their economic commons, I highly recommend Elinor Ostrom's Nobel-winning book (For Nobel in Economics values of Nobel) Governing the Commons.
• Power scaling wrong: Wealth is power. Any power you give a character in progression fantasy? You gotta take into account when giving them challenges, so you have them at the power level you want them. Lotta folks slip on this one.
• Having protagonists make money too easily: A lot of protagonists- especially isekai protagonists- just wander into a pseudomedieval society with an absolutely bottom shelf business idea and get filthy rich with it, to the point where it's kind of absurd how easy it is for them. You really think none of the locals wouldn't have thought of that? Avoid low-hanging branches, folks. (I'm reminded of a scene from the terrible 2001 move Black Knight, where Martin Lawrence tries to fend off his execution by showing a medieval crowd a lighter. "I make fire!" To which a bored peasant replies "We have fire.") Many technologies that would be nominally feasible for pseudomedieval societies would fail due to lack of support infrastructure- semaphore towers, for instance, would have been technologically feasible all the way back in the Roman Empire, but their optics technology sucked- without spyglasses, they would have had to place the towers way too close together, making semaphores economically unfeasible.
• Having the protagonist become filthy rich without changing their role in society: Large amounts of money warp the hell out of social relations around people, in quite a few ways.
• Making your currency system too clean and neat. A pseudomedieval currency with fixed decimal
• Falling for "one neat trick": Pretty much ANY time someone advocates for a single cure for all economic ills, it's... probably bullshit. "Going back to the gold standard will fix all our problems!" "Giving control of the economy to genius CEOs will fix all our problems!" "Executing all landlords will fix all our problems!" "Lower all taxes and corporations will flood to the state of Kansas despite Kansas sucking!" It... never really works out. (Though persecuting landlords is super tempting, ngl.) That said, if instead someone is advocating for a single solution not as a "fix all problems" sort of thing, but as a "this will massively improve a lot of different problems" sort of proposal, it's okay to be more open minded and offer their arguments more time and brain space. (For instance, Thomas Piketty's advocacy for a return to powerful progressive income taxes in Capital in the 21st Century? He doesn't present it as a cure-all, but rather as a difficult to implement policy that would have significant impacts on wealth inequality, and offers an extreme degree of evidence. Agree or disagree with him, he's certainly not trying the "one weird trick" approach. (Though I should note that it's hard to disagree with the sheer scale of his evidence.)
• Trying to to design an economy based off a niche economic theory, like Georgism, for your PF world without sitting down and doing your research first: Really do your best to understand how it could go well, disastrously, or weirdly. It could work out fine, even great, in some situations- a PF system where magic power is based off magical "ownership" of land that supplies the owner with mana, for instance, could integrate well with Georgism, but you've really got to know what you're doing to stick the landing. (This sort of speculative worldbuilding is the one time you shouldn't bully Georgists. They're just so... bullyable.)
• Treating humans as rational economic actors: Bad idea. Humans are irrational as hell, lol.
• Basing literally any of your ideas off those of Ayn Rand: lol. lmao.

Tips:

• If you promise economic fantasy, deliver economic fantasy! Same thing as any other narrative promise- you don't keep it, your readers will feel betrayed.
• It's okay to create the illusion of an economy! Seriously! You don't need to plot out an elaborate economic system, you can just leave hints and clues that let the reader puzzle it out to the degree they wish. Just keep what hints you do describe logically consistent and well thought out! Like: What products can be found at the market? How far away do they come from? Is bargaining common, or are there consistent prices? Do consistent weights and measures exist, or is that always a source of frustration for folks? Are taxes in coinage, in product/produce? And if they're in the latter, is it a percent tax (one third your wheat crop!) requiring expensive monitoring and enforcement, or is it a flat rate (two bushels an acre!) that can punish farmers for bad crops but is much cheaper?
• Don't necessarily try to make your MC the leader of a large firm! You can, it can be fun, but there are plenty of other, often easier and more satisfying, paths to writing economic fantasy! Like, how does someone in the middle of a democratic revolution against a magical monarchy experience the economic shifts?
• Remember: a government's ability to control an economy, to whatever degree, is strictly limited by the amount of information they have about that economy! Legibility is power!
• Read quality economic fantasy outside PF and LitRPG. J. Zachary Pike's Orconomics, Seth Dickinson's Masquerade series, etc, etc.
• Read more about actual economics. Basic economics texts are great here!
• Then read a bunch of stuff critical of basic economics, because economics as a science is full of crap. For instance, there's STILL folks teaching that coinage and commerce arose out of barter, despite the fact that evidence of barter has never shown up in a pre-coinage society! Pre-coinage societies almost universally use complex social credit and debt systems. (Read David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years for more on this. Fantastic book, has inspired quite a bit of SF/F.)
• If you stumble across a disagreement between theoretical economics and empirical economics, side with the empiricists! If theory disagrees with reality, theory needs to be the one to bend. (In general, empirical economists are just in a whole different league.)
• If you stumble across a disagreement between economics and anthropology, or economics and history, or economics and literally ANY other science... probably side with the other science. Economics is in a fairly rough state these days, folks, for... long, complicated reasons ranging from philosophy of science issues to good old fashioned corruption.
• And, ABOVE ALL ELSE: Spend the time to figure out HOW your progression system will affect the economy! Doesn't need to be perfect, but you need to consider how magic will affect things like: Food production, shipping and logistics, crop yield, bank vault security, counterfeiting (illusion magic's impact on the economy? Potentially huge!), healthcare quality and access, public heath measures (even more important than healthcare!), the presence or absence of insurance industries, how the use of various materials like gemstones as magic components would affect their price, magic's impact on ursury/credit, its impact on contract enforcement (if tracking magic is stronger than concealment magic, it gets a lot harder to renege on a debt, and vice versa), its impact on capital accumulation, its impact on precious metal supply (divination magic or transmutation magic could absolutely flood the market for gold and or silver, crashing its price!), and much much more! You don't need to answer all of these specific questions- rather, you just need to give the reader confidence that YOU have spent time considering how inhabitants of your world would try to make a living with magic.

Again, this isn't meant to be an exhaustive list! It's just a few pitfalls and tips, in no particularly coherent order. If you want to write really good economic fantasy, of any subgenre, you need to do your groundwork, do your research, and be ready to stress test the hell out of your worldbuilding.

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A Pet Cape of Accomplishment in Old School RuneScape (OSRS) would be a prestigious and highly coveted item. Given that pets are rare and often require significant effort to obtain, the rewards associated with this cape could be quite substantial. Here are some tiered rewards and benefits that might be appropriate for such a cape:

Tier 1: 5 Pets

• Cape Stats: Decent combat stats, similar to a Fire Cape.
• Special Ability: Summon any of the pets owned for cosmetic purposes.
• Emote: Unique pet-themed emote.

Tier 2: 10 Pets

• Cape Stats: Improved combat stats, similar to an Infernal Cape.
• Special Ability: Double drop rate for obtaining pets from bosses and skilling.
• Emote: Upgraded emote involving multiple pets.

Tier 3: 15 Pets

• Cape Stats: Further improved stats, offering a slight boost in defense and offensive capabilities.
• Special Ability: Chance for pets to pick up items or provide minor buffs in combat/skilling.
• Emote: A more elaborate emote involving a parade of pets.

Tier 4: 20 Pets

• Cape Stats: Near-max combat stats, potentially providing minor resistance to certain types of damage (e.g., poison, dragonfire).
• Special Ability: Increased drop rate for rare items when a pet is active.
• Emote: A majestic display of pets with special effects and animations.

Tier 5: 25 Pets

• Cape Stats: Best-in-slot cape stats, comparable to a Max Cape or slightly better.
• Special Ability: Small chance to receive an extra roll for loot on bosses and skilling activities.
• Emote: The ultimate pet emote, featuring all pets owned in a grand display.

Tier 6: 30+ Pets

• Cape Stats: Ultimate cape stats, best-in-game with a unique design.
• Special Ability: Passive bonuses such as increased XP gain in various skills when a pet is active, small healing effects from pets, or teleportation abilities.
• Emote: The most spectacular emote involving an epic display of all pets, potentially with interactive elements.

Additional Features:

• Pet Storage: Access to a special interface or location where all pets can be viewed and managed.
• Pet Training: Ability to train pets to provide small benefits like minor combat assistance, skilling boosts, or utility functions.
• Pet Transmogrification: Change the appearance of pets to unique variants unlocked through achievements or quests.

This tiered system would not only provide incremental rewards for pet collectors but also encourage continued engagement with the game as players strive to unlock the next level of the Pet Cape of Accomplishment.

Hi all,
I’m a May 2024 grad from a top public university. I did a BA in Econ and a minor in data science and creative writing. My gpa is 3.5 but I had an internship every summer except senior year. These were in accounting adjacent roles. I was supposed to be applying to jobs and learning skills last summer and senior year. My mental health wasn’t the best and I barely applied. I really started this April and got a couple of interviews for various roles like Hmarketing/accounting.
I got into a Masters of Accounting program last year. It’s at the same school I attended and is highly ranked for accounting.
My goal is to find a job that has good work life balance (can be later down the line), security, and a high salary (to support my family). I’m torn between deferring enrollment to July 2025 (to continue job searching) or doing the MAC this July.
Reasons to do MAC now:

• I’ve done accounting work and it is okay/easy
• I've done data analytics work and it was difficult (though intro to Python was easy for me)
• If I defer enrollment and don’t find anything I’ll be a year behind
• Most of the jobs I’m applying for (financial analyst, data analytics) can likely be achieved down the line with MAC
• Other careers I’m interested in like IT or UX design only need certs/portfolios so I can pursue them later (but then I'd already have invested in accounting and wouldn't want to pivot into entry level roles)
• Every job I’m interested in exploring is competitive/oversaturated and the job market is bad
• I come out of MAC with a job (accounting is very secure)
• Risk of recruiting and having to explain the gap year
• I probably could get a job with just my bachelors, but I don't know how likely it is that job has steady salary progression like accounting

Reasons to do gap year to see if I can find a career not in accounting:

• 36k cost for a career I’m not passionate about
• Learning accounting doesn't feel fulfilling. When I dig into the "why" it comes down to rules that people made up instead of something tangible (but project finance seems like I could "make a difference")
• Feel like I should aim for a field with better pay. Not that I don’t have respect for accounting. If I could go back, I major in accounting. But I spent money on this Econ degree. Are there masters that could maximize earning potential more than accounting?
• Two people I've worked with have had a successful accounting career (Controller and CEO). But they say they wouldn’t do accounting again. I see similar sentiments in this reddit. Would you recommend this career to your own children?
• I regret my Econ major and wish I took more time to research/figure things out. If I jump into MAC I could be making the same mistake.
• If I do MAC I will aim for Big4. This comes with 2-5 years of horrible work life balance and shitty pay. I would be wondering if I could’ve been successful in something not accounting.
• Progressing in accounting seems dependent on people skills and all high salary positions are managing people. This is not my forte. I feel like I don't fit in with finance people. I don't have mainstream interests.
• Time to explore and apply to different masters like analytics/stats. Some are much cheaper than MAC and have higher earning potential (this is risky. They seem to be for people already working with data)
• Say I do the gap year and spend my time studying SQL, Python, Excel, Tableau, etc. to get into business/data analyst roles, I can still use those skills in accounting

Thank you for making it to the end. Literally any advice would be appreciated as I feel pretty lost :(