04-21-2005, 06:26 AM
This is just an opinion.
I have been lurking around for about a year over here. Itâs heartening to note people involved in more mature and structured debate. More and more individuals from institutes other than ICAP have also joined in here, which is an encouraging sign. Good show.
Sadly, the level of antagonism between members/students from different professional institutes on this forum is still quite the same. You are more than welcome to share your own points of view and debate opinions, but lowballing and undercutting each other with downright absurd statements not only makes an ass out of yourself, it damages the profession.
A layman's quick skim through some of the posts in the âcareerâ sections will most probably opinionate into something like "X institute students are tremendously insecure and threatened professionals, and need to put more effort in communicating coherently"....
About the issue of competition between examining bodies - itâs a fact of life. The impossibly utopian pipedream of a single global institute with all members so âniceâ to each other can obviously, never be achieved. ICAPâs changing policies which are becoming arguably more relaxed, the absolutely preposterous number of students awarded permanent credits this year, all point towards an environment that is getting a lot more competitive compared to - say, a decade ago.
While I do agree that defending your own profession within a specified limit is permissible, making uninformed opinions and backing up your choice of institute with downright ridiculous notions and urban myths turns your personal credibility into gutter filth. The fact that these people are ârepresentingâ the most prestigious accountancy bodies in the world makes it even worse. If tomorrowâs enterprise is going to be run by ill-informed gutter filth, may Allah help us? Such silly opinions raise doubts about a personâs background and standard of education and even though âwittyâ one liners might fail to deliver a coherent message, they still speak volumes about a his/her intellect. Regardless of how good you are at crunching numbers and interpreting spreadsheets, if your intellect is roughly equivalent to that of a very intelligent worm, I seriously doubt it if you will ever be able to âmake it bigâ in life.
Secondly, if some individuals who are apparently new to the internet (and computers in general), take a little bit more effort into actually LOOKING at the keyboard while they learn to type, they will not only sound more mature, but people will actually bother to stop and read their posts with possibly some reflection on its content. While there are no set rules for communicative punctuation on the internet, written words still manage to represent a personâs ability to a certain extent. Poorly punctuated, incoherent posts which sometimes attempt to mingle nearly three languages at once; represent a frothing and foaming baboon and that too, a baboon isolated in a laboratory to prevent pollution of the Cro-Magnon gene pool.
Itâs a tough world out there. I recently started my training, and believe me; your knowledge of your respective subject is almost secondary to your ability to survive in a profoundly Darwinian environment. My first couple of months was spent in total shock. Itâs a harrowing process, but its reality.
Similarly, there is competition everywhere. Thatâs also reality. Learn to appreciate it rather than run away from it. The institute where you are enrolled at is not infallible. Nothing is foolproof. Try to understand the âbig pictureâ. Believe in personal development. That alone is what differentiates one professional from another. In the long run, your ability to see the âbig pictureâ is what really matters.
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I have been lurking around for about a year over here. Itâs heartening to note people involved in more mature and structured debate. More and more individuals from institutes other than ICAP have also joined in here, which is an encouraging sign. Good show.
Sadly, the level of antagonism between members/students from different professional institutes on this forum is still quite the same. You are more than welcome to share your own points of view and debate opinions, but lowballing and undercutting each other with downright absurd statements not only makes an ass out of yourself, it damages the profession.
A layman's quick skim through some of the posts in the âcareerâ sections will most probably opinionate into something like "X institute students are tremendously insecure and threatened professionals, and need to put more effort in communicating coherently"....
About the issue of competition between examining bodies - itâs a fact of life. The impossibly utopian pipedream of a single global institute with all members so âniceâ to each other can obviously, never be achieved. ICAPâs changing policies which are becoming arguably more relaxed, the absolutely preposterous number of students awarded permanent credits this year, all point towards an environment that is getting a lot more competitive compared to - say, a decade ago.
While I do agree that defending your own profession within a specified limit is permissible, making uninformed opinions and backing up your choice of institute with downright ridiculous notions and urban myths turns your personal credibility into gutter filth. The fact that these people are ârepresentingâ the most prestigious accountancy bodies in the world makes it even worse. If tomorrowâs enterprise is going to be run by ill-informed gutter filth, may Allah help us? Such silly opinions raise doubts about a personâs background and standard of education and even though âwittyâ one liners might fail to deliver a coherent message, they still speak volumes about a his/her intellect. Regardless of how good you are at crunching numbers and interpreting spreadsheets, if your intellect is roughly equivalent to that of a very intelligent worm, I seriously doubt it if you will ever be able to âmake it bigâ in life.
Secondly, if some individuals who are apparently new to the internet (and computers in general), take a little bit more effort into actually LOOKING at the keyboard while they learn to type, they will not only sound more mature, but people will actually bother to stop and read their posts with possibly some reflection on its content. While there are no set rules for communicative punctuation on the internet, written words still manage to represent a personâs ability to a certain extent. Poorly punctuated, incoherent posts which sometimes attempt to mingle nearly three languages at once; represent a frothing and foaming baboon and that too, a baboon isolated in a laboratory to prevent pollution of the Cro-Magnon gene pool.
Itâs a tough world out there. I recently started my training, and believe me; your knowledge of your respective subject is almost secondary to your ability to survive in a profoundly Darwinian environment. My first couple of months was spent in total shock. Itâs a harrowing process, but its reality.
Similarly, there is competition everywhere. Thatâs also reality. Learn to appreciate it rather than run away from it. The institute where you are enrolled at is not infallible. Nothing is foolproof. Try to understand the âbig pictureâ. Believe in personal development. That alone is what differentiates one professional from another. In the long run, your ability to see the âbig pictureâ is what really matters.
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