Thanks for the advice everyone! Will respond in detail when home
JxgrSaint - i’ll definitely take you up on your offer!
I know the chairman of Begbies (but they dont do audit or tax), the COO of Moore Stephens and the CEO of Crowe Clarke Whitehill if thats of any use at all. But I would aim slighty higher if I were Trampoline. BDO and GT are excellent firms for example.
Bucks after the name dropper badge ? 
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Maybe he’s a Mason…?
It certainly is bollocks. Sorry Barry, but you missed out the most used technique for promotion. Good old fashion arse licking. I will always be amazed at the amount of incompetent halfwits in great jobs. I would put it a close second to nepotism.
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Promotion out of harms way is another good way to climb the ladder
Fuck up so they have to move you incase you do it again but not bad enough that they need to sack you. each little fuck up is a step up the ladder
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Very true PS. I have seen this happen. Bloke made a mess of everything he was involved with, but miraculously kept getting moved sideways and upwards. The most incompetent person i have ever had to deal with but an amazingly good arse licker.
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There is something about accountants that really fucks me off. I basically consider them to be subhuman. I think it’s that as an industry they have taken many things that should be very simple, and turned them into things which are unnecessarily incomprehensible to anyone but themselves. Then, with the cooperation of government they’ve forced the incomprehensible things upon everyone else.
For some reason, instead of telling these arseholes to fuck off and put everything back how it was, we instead pay them a fuck ton of money to fuck about with the tangled mess of shit they’ve made and are so proud of.
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Financial Advisors are in the same bracket for me, dovepiss.
A bunch of useless cunts that charge you a fortune to put your money in the hands of people they don’t know, just so that they can tell you every three months that your pot of money is worth less than it was previously and that the little prediction of performance they gave you at the outset was a load of old flannel because it’s all the fault of the iranians, oil producers, middle east terrorists, etc.
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I think I stated quickly, read it you tory bellend.
Originally posted by @Numptyboi
Financial Advisors are in the same bracket for me, dovepiss.
A bunch of useless cunts that charge you a fortune to put your money in the hands of people they don’t know, just so that they can tell you every three months that your pot of money is worth less than it was previously and that the little prediction of performance they gave you at the outset was a load of old flannel because it’s all the fault of the iranians, oil producers, middle east terrorists, etc.
Mortgage advisors, estate agents, tax accountants, financial advisors, lease holder management companies, nail technicians, health advisors, computuer wizards (they really are a shower of know nothing wankers who basically fucking delete and put the operating system back on whilst wnaking off to Zelda) and many more boil my piss.
All a modern phenomenon of shiteness and shit wages (bar a few elite) but yet wear suits and have delusions of granduer.
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Quickly or not, it’s still bollocks you utter cretin.
I can’t help you as I have very little money and no great career prospects, but am generally very happy - I don’t even own a house, shock horror! I’ll leave it to the accountants on this forum (there’s a disproportionate number of them on here! Very weird…) to advise you how to make your life all about the Benjamins.
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There’s only two isn’t there?
Hold fire you lot - this is a career advice thread for Trampoline, don’t turn it into a “you’re all a bunch of cunts thread”.
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I run in my wifes circles as quite frankly she is the professional and I am the fuckwit on her coattails, I meet people who drive the newest motors all on the never never, buy a house £300,000 more than they can afford and they are as miserable as shit as they simply want more and more, all show and all bollocks.
I love saying to people who have a flash car do they own it or lease it, most people could go down the road the and get a nice motor on what they dont own, most people dont own their own homes on here, they still owe the bank for them, I do to the hilt of at least £250,000, people are full of shit at the end of the day.
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well said. Reading us lot moan, has probably left Mr T seriously considering a life on benefits, if working means he’ll end up like the rest of us.
Get yourself down the dole office( or whatever hideous name it has now) Mr T.
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Ha! I remember signing on pretty soon after uni. Was a grim experience.
Thanks everyone for the advice. I’m going to give the job with Preqin a crack and basically cross the decision-making bridge when I come to it should I receive an offer (which I do quite fancy my chances of achieving given that I’ve got the (negligable) skill set that they need).
Nonetheless, that shouldn’t preclude me from applying for other jobs in accountancy/big 4 and certainly pursuing the PwC one full steam ahead. Failing that I’ll work my way through those lists of accountancy firms.
Only issue is that I did balls up my A-levels a bit and only got a BBC (280 UCAS points and therefore below the minimum 300 that many of them set for applying) - but I do also have the option of embellishing the truth when it comes to asking for ‘special considerations’.
Oh and as for ‘all about the Benjamins’ - lol.
I’d accept a job pushing a little red button in a room all day/copying from the dictionary if you paid me like £40k to do it.
All I really want is enough money to get by and that’ll do me just fine.
Then become a developer…