how did I land that job out of college hey what's up everybody CPA strength
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Community College - CPA and then of course me being me I'm doing it out of
order how did I land that job out of college okay now for other people who
don't like the lead-in and the story time which is the best part
Craigslist I found enough Craigslist okay there are you happy
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hey what's up you know it's like I don't have time it takes forever okay no okay
you've got what yeah I mean see how like now I'm just trying to make I'm just I'm
just making a little point here that if I just say how did I find a job
Craigslist you're like okay ah I need to you know now I'm gonna spend like eight
eight eight minutes or whatever on how did I find a job and why was that cool
that I found it off Craigslist and the snap of all the bah so disclaimer this
is I'm filming this is October 2017 when I was looking for jobs it was October of
2013 it was four years ago and I can't believe it's been four years and yet
because I I got a job at a CPA from when I worked there for two years and then
I've worked at my own accounting firm for two years so it's four years since I
looked for this job I didn't just go from my college degree
I'm sorry little background on me if this is the first time you've watched a
video is I have a I went I went back to school or Community College at age 31
graduated with the county degree from Florida Nanuk University at age 35 and
in the summer of 2012 and then the next tax season I worked at
H&R Block I haven't talked about that yet then the following after that tax
season I started looking looking for a like a quote unquote like real real job
of salary I needed I needed under a CPA because I wanted to be a CPA so this is
how I got that job and hmm locks very
integral or very important I believe like it theory the reason I got the job
in the CPA firm is because I had a season of H&R Block under my belt and
how did I know I could do or wanted to do HR block it's because I did the vitae
program and volunteered so I was like boom the butterfly effect off most I
guess sounds yeah it's something small but as I need you just keep one just
keep plugging away positively man just keep doing things and you know what you
know what's right thing inside right like am i doing good yeah do you like to
think you know you know if it's good just do good stuff just keep on doing
good stuff I worked at each I got my county degree work to HR block for a
season the tax season ends and I want to say the years because I don't know if
you do Craigslist now four years later but when you're watching this maybe
Craigslist is still a good place to get a job for you know to let's get to those
freaking story JD let's get to the story buddy so I was looking for a job how do
I find a job and what job that I need I needed a job with a CPA who worked there
because I needed to to work mm under or around a CPA that was willing
to write you know to the state of Florida or the state that that you're in
or whatever the state of Florida in my case that's hey this guy worked 2,000
hours in a year for me and he's he knows what he's doing he could be a CPA so it
was like not the easiest thing to do so I thought that I would just go around I
thought I would so so I thought that I would just you know I wasn't gonna win
anything in a resume that's why you know I things I went I don't have really
anything on a resume I'm like 35 I have like a season I reached our block and
then the season volunteer work so it's like what did you do for 16 other years
buddy it's like so I thought man I thought I'm just gonna walk into places
right because then I'm gonna get lucky I'm gonna walk into the right place at
the right time someone is gonna see me right someone is gonna someone is gonna
say oh man I need somebody not the case not the case and now when I was going
for accounting places or professional places or the places I was going for it
I ran across that if it's a if it's like a decent-sized company they're gonna say
you know how to apply like you could show up with your resume in hand because
that's what I was doing and they would say oh you apply online like that's just
what you do like what do you take my resume well you know you'll apply online
and then it's just like you're taking it's like a online resume
it's like going it's like does anybody even get that am i upsetting an email
you know if you don't send a lot of emails and then and then you try sending
one for a job resume and then you never hear back you're like tight do it right
right know how to do an email
so I thought I would just walk into places so I was getting that you know a
big plate so it's like a smaller place is a meeting you know medium small
plates you know ten employees four to ten employees I was thinking I'll hit
him up so I went I wasn't you know the Fort Lauderdale at the time of job
search at the time of this video for Arnold Florida and I I thought oh I
looked at CPA like i google-searched in wherever on the maps and I just was like
oh my lord the the closest ones first to where I'm living and then eventually
like I mean there's a ton of them like there's like 50 of them in here like
I'll eventually find some so I went out full of piss and vinegar I guess you
know I mean it wasn't my favorite but I was like man I gotta find a job if I got
to do this you know I'm saying I just went to school I got a degree I worked
hit for block like yo like it's just it's just so it has to be done so I
started going out and not like these little places like people weren't at
their office like look at me I'm not in my office you know second that's it you
know the order the office the people that work there offense I say would you
take my resume no no we're not hiring you know well would you just take my
resume because it makes me feel I got to do something and they're like I'm not
gonna look at it so it's like I couldn't even give away my resume like if I could
if I could give up like if I could just have like two people a day out of like
five or ten places you know to even take the resume so I got no no calls I got
like one little nibble but it was like nothing just cuz it happened to be the
secretary the secretary of like putting a good word for me but he didn't need
anything so anyway so it's kinda dejected I was like is this gonna happen
for me
I just went around everywhere so I don't know I mean I've been I've been on all
the Yahoo Yahoo Messenger all the Craigslist dating sites all the dating
sites you know what I'm saying and so Craigslist was just like a weird
like dating site to me like weird people are on crack six did other stuff like so
I thought like patio for used gym equipment or something it I thought it
was used gym equipment and you know nude pics or whatever dating weird people on
dating site so I don't know I guess I was on there for for dating site because
the guy gets lonely and then I was like jobs and I was like you could do jobs on
Craigslist - so I'm like okay I don't know so I had been going out for like a
month now and I had not got a really a nibble on anything so I put out I put
out some answered some things on Craigslist like hey I'm your guy I'm
home and like I like the third second or third email I did you know it's easy to
do one of these replies it's like hey I'm your guy you know like I'm your guy
you know it's easy it's like so just I think like the third one I did I got I
got I got an interview and I was like wow okay so then I was nervous that I'll
get an interview so I had to interview there was this really good book that got
recommended to me and because I was so nervous on the job
interview and this book was saying that you know the person enter like just
how do you want this job so bad the person interviewing you wants to fill
this role so bad like you know you just you'll take any job you're looking for
jobs you just want a job you will work you know and put yourself in the the
person looking you know he needs this he's you know where do you find a person
he put an ad in Craigslist so now someone's coming in and he just wanted
to see he just wants to find someone who he thinks is normal and has a good skill
set and a good attitude he just wants to fill the job so he can go back to his
normal life so think about that so I'm just like okay just be yourself just be
normal you know just he wants to date they want to fill this job as bad as you
want this job so just think about that too like no one like they don't enjoy
the job interview either they just want to get this done so the other thing that
got me through this like book it was like you know you know in your hearts
that you'd rather get abducted by aliens right now then go in this job interview
and I'm like yeah I was thinking about getting probed in all these weird places
and I was like yeah I probably rather do that than go to this chocolate room
right now so it's just saying you know everybody hates the job interview
everybody hates it just everybody hates it it's something you have to do the
person interviewing just wants somebody normal just get it over with and then do
something nice for yourself you know go buy yourself a nice t-shirt or you know
go get a milkshake you know like do something you like to do you know you've
conquered the fears whatever I did not get that job well hold on I didn't hear
anything so I put in like two more emails on Craigslist
got a response got another interview felt like I did good on that first
interview but there was no CPA there there was just an enrolled agent so I
didn't really want that job but I was willing to take it because I was willing
to take anything crush the second interview couple days after I did that I
got a job offer from the second interview so then I had a job I was
starting like in a month or some during the next year next tax season so then
during that month I got a call from the first place I interviewed for and they
offered me a job and I said oh I'm sorry I already have another job I don't need
your job anymore I'm sorry so so I went from no jobs to turning a job down just
cuz I kept pushing forward I thought a little bit out of the box I thought I
was out of the box going in places personally that didn't work for me
Craigslist worked for me I hope you liked the video I love making these
videos I can't wait till I make this video tomorrow oh my god what a blessed
life deuces