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i told you these people were amazing
Prometric both sent an email and left a VM telling me that my exam had been moved to a different location, without seeing fit to specify which exam. I am just going to assume it's both of them because that's easier than getting a straight answer out of Prometric.
Studying for these goddamn things has become a weird addiction, which is fortunate as it wasn't until the month rolled over that I realised how tight I had scheduled this shit /face.palm. It is made more interesting by my refusal to spend any money on, oh come on now, self-study of publicly available information that I mostly already know. The plethora of certification in our professional lives primarily serves to enrich private education companies (but hey, the tax code itself now exists to enrich the owners of TurboTax so who even cares any more). Besides, on the most popular/most marketed EA study website it costs $40 each for a practice exam; it's $105 to sit each module for reals and you actually get a thing if you pass so why pay to study anything ever.
minor irritation #1: I found out that the most recent public-access SEE exam on IRS.gov is from 2005, immediately assumed they'd sold everything more recent & that this was another example of public policy existing in order to enrich the private education industry, then I read this ancient fucking question list and discovered that all the free samples from study materials that I've been using are based on it. I mean, they are the same questions with a few words switched. Suppose you'd paid for the private Special Enrollment ed and then noticed that? Oh wait, if you'd paid for things you would never have looked at the actualfuck source code would you.
minor irritation #2: I can't automatically add irs.gov to my Firefox search dropdown and am too lazy to figure out how.
minor irritation #3: this is making me tangibly more boring, which is all the more reason to get it out of the way ASAP and go back to having my life derailed by bad porn ideas instead.
I have two job interviews tomorrow; one for another goddamn staffing agency, then one that the Dingbat set up for me with a property manager he knows, because the Dingbat is genuinely kind when he's not being bugfuck paranoid and I think he's at least aware of how hard he might theoretically be fucking my life up by simultaneously extending my contract and cutting my hours (I told you he was a terrible employer); that I am both using the time and under no hardship is a shocking and decadent coincidence. He honestly wants me to get a better job anyway, bless his heart, and I strongly suspect that this is not it, but a) I don't care so long as it's work, and b) if I pass all my exams and magifuckily find a real job then I will bail with zero fucks and fewer regrets.
Studying for these goddamn things has become a weird addiction, which is fortunate as it wasn't until the month rolled over that I realised how tight I had scheduled this shit /face.palm. It is made more interesting by my refusal to spend any money on, oh come on now, self-study of publicly available information that I mostly already know. The plethora of certification in our professional lives primarily serves to enrich private education companies (but hey, the tax code itself now exists to enrich the owners of TurboTax so who even cares any more). Besides, on the most popular/most marketed EA study website it costs $40 each for a practice exam; it's $105 to sit each module for reals and you actually get a thing if you pass so why pay to study anything ever.
minor irritation #1: I found out that the most recent public-access SEE exam on IRS.gov is from 2005, immediately assumed they'd sold everything more recent & that this was another example of public policy existing in order to enrich the private education industry, then I read this ancient fucking question list and discovered that all the free samples from study materials that I've been using are based on it. I mean, they are the same questions with a few words switched. Suppose you'd paid for the private Special Enrollment ed and then noticed that? Oh wait, if you'd paid for things you would never have looked at the actualfuck source code would you.
minor irritation #2: I can't automatically add irs.gov to my Firefox search dropdown and am too lazy to figure out how.
minor irritation #3: this is making me tangibly more boring, which is all the more reason to get it out of the way ASAP and go back to having my life derailed by bad porn ideas instead.
I have two job interviews tomorrow; one for another goddamn staffing agency, then one that the Dingbat set up for me with a property manager he knows, because the Dingbat is genuinely kind when he's not being bugfuck paranoid and I think he's at least aware of how hard he might theoretically be fucking my life up by simultaneously extending my contract and cutting my hours (I told you he was a terrible employer); that I am both using the time and under no hardship is a shocking and decadent coincidence. He honestly wants me to get a better job anyway, bless his heart, and I strongly suspect that this is not it, but a) I don't care so long as it's work, and b) if I pass all my exams and magifuckily find a real job then I will bail with zero fucks and fewer regrets.