BComm isn't going to get you into the Big 4 in Calgary unless is an intern/co-op campus program.
You need a designation in Calgary. Either CPA or CFA. We hire undergraduates and pay for further school while getting experience. Because CPA requires "relevant experience" in addition to courses.
Heck CPA has made a killing just bridging students along. A few years ago it was a race against time to finish your designation before the merge. Even if you were one course short youd have to bridge which was really ####ty.
University grads don’t hire into big 4 with a CPA. That’s where many work to fulfill the experience requirement for CPA.
My poli sci/philosophy degrees have taken me far. I've worked with a lot of English majors too. The economy is big and very complex. Still lots of niches for people to work in.
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My poli sci/philosophy degrees have taken me far. I've worked with a lot of English majors too. The economy is big and very complex. Still lots of niches for people to work in.
sorry to add to the off topic discussion but I wish I had a degree. any degree.
I've had opportunities where I had the abilities and experience but I couldn't get my foot in the door because I didn't have a degree of some sort.
I remember one university area I was in. there was a number of support staff jobs that you didn't even need a high school diploma for. They rewrote the job description to get it a grade higher in pay and made having university degree a requirement.
not having degree often does limit one's upward mobility.
At this point the 2020 numbers are pretty strongly suggesting a good chunk of Bernie's 2016 support was simply people who hated Hillary. Not only has Bernie not expanded his base, but it has clearly contracted in rural areas and with the white non-college. That to me is the biggest reason Bernie should drop out now, the math is impossible sure, but that was one of his biggest arguments for electability over Biden, that he'd bring those demos with his base.
The other one, his fired up base, also isn't holding up. Bernie isn't driving enough youth and Biden is winning both the rural and white non-college vote, which along with strong suburban performance suggests he's got a pretty formidable base right now. I think a lot of moderate Republicans are more than happy to reboot with Biden in 2020 and hope the party returns from Trumpism for 2024.
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At this point the 2020 numbers are pretty strongly suggesting a good chunk of Bernie's 2016 support was simply people who hated Hillary. Not only has Bernie not expanded his base, but it has clearly contracted in rural areas and with the white non-college. That to me is the biggest reason Bernie should drop out not, the math is impossible sure, but that was one of his biggest arguments for electability over Biden, that he'd bring those demos with his base.
The other one, his fired up base, also isn't holding up. Bernie isn't driving enough youth and Biden is winning both the rural and white non-college vote, which along with strong suburban performance suggests he's got a pretty formidable base right now. I think a lot of moderate Republicans are more than happy to reboot with Biden in 2020 and hope the party returns from Trumpism for 2024.
I think Bernie might have lost a few angry supporters to Trump too. I agree, though that there were a lot of anti-Hillary votes. The other large factor is he probably lost most of his tepid supporters who were willing to give him a chance last time, but now are not willing to bet on Bernie to beat Trump.
If you are right though, that has to bode very well for the general election. It probably means Trump picked up a lot of anti-Hillary votes that will go for Biden and it could be a slaughter if Biden can keep it together and stay healthy for 8 months.
I think Bernie might have lost a few angry supporters to Trump too. I agree, though that there were a lot of anti-Hillary votes. The other large factor is he probably lost most of his tepid supporters who were willing to give him a chance last time, but now are not willing to bet on Bernie to beat Trump.
If you are right though, that has to bode very well for the general election. It probably means Trump picked up a lot of anti-Hillary votes that will go for Biden and it could be a slaughter if Biden can keep it together and stay healthy for 8 months.
There are some loose estimates that 10% of Bernie supporters voted for Trump in defiance.
Hopefully this time around the progressives don't stay home or have a vote for Trump tantrum. Now that the Democratic candidate is all but settled everyone needs to coalesce behind Biden and get out the vote as much as possible.
To that end, if Bernie really cares about the well-being of the country as much as he claims, he needs to step aside and provide a full-throated endorsement for Biden. Same with Warren. I hope we see Bernie, Warren, Obama and others stump hard for Biden. I also hope that Bloomberg throws a bunch of money behind him. The world needs all hands on deck for this one.
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Yes it's up to Bernie, as it was last time out, to not allow a 'we was robbed' narrative to thrive, the trouble is that's the knock against Bernie, he doesn't play nicely with the other kids in the playground
Really, you just don't go around saying billionaires should be abolished when 330 million Americans are under the mass delusion that they are just a break or two away from being millionaires themselves. Warren's policies with Bernie as the mouthpiece may have found a a more mainstream constituency. It's clear the Democrats as a party and the US populace are not interested in the kind of revolution Bernie is talking about.
Bernie's failure to do as well this time as in 2016 is due to a few factors:
1. In 2016, Hillary was always the presumptive nominee. Sanders was an insurgent, and really the only alternative. People like an underdog, and people really hate a coronation. In this case, Biden was leading in the polls for a while, then it looked like Warren was going to be the front runner, then Pete looked like he had a shot (although was never a favourite), then Sanders won the first few states and looked like a front runner... By the time Biden really took the lead, the whole thing was basically over. Very different race.
2. No one liked Hillary anyway, because of long-standing Republican smearing of her public persona. They'd been beating up on her for two decades, but especially since '08, because she was also the presumptive nominee way back then. Biden just doesn't have that. Listening to Joe Biden talk does not necessarily make anyone's heart beat faster like listening to Obama did, but no one seems to really hate him (besides a few Bernie people who wouldn't hold any such views if he weren't in this race and about to beat their guy). People hated Hillary. Hillary got more negative press during the Obama administration than Biden, even as the VP.
3. People like Bernie, but the people who support Bernie - the grassroots who have to convince their friends to vote Bernie - an unfortunately large proportion of them are insufferable, presumptuous, strident morons. They're exactly the sorts of people who you'd expect to see this morning saying they aren't going to vote for Biden in the general but will complain for the next four years about Trump. When someone like that tries to secure your vote, you might nod along to avoid an argument but you're not particularly likely to be convinced. Now, last time around, there were plenty of Hillary supporters who could be similarly caricatured, lobbing around accusations of sexism if you won't vote for Hillary, demanding people fall in line, trying to put their finger on the scales, and so forth. Can you even name a Biden surrogate? What does a Biden supporter even look like? They're probably not wearing a T-shirt announcing their affiliation. This is sort of a corollary of the first one - Biden's inoffensive, so are his supporters.
4. Biden spoke directly to working class people, and didn't make any effort to appeal to woke intersectionalists and the NYT editorial board, which were Hillary's core constituency in 2016. As Warren's campaign demonstrated pretty clearly, that's a losing strategy even in a Democratic primary. Bernie didn't go all out the way Warren did, but he did adopt those politics as his strategy to try to win over a chunk of Biden's African American support, and predictably, it yielded no obvious results.
The weird thing here is that normally when you win a primary you have to make a hard pivot to the center for the general. Biden's already in the middle. He might actually have to take a bit of a left turn on a few issues - throw a few bones to the progressive wing - just to try to get them on board. Say, include the wealth tax, some student loan forgiveness and a minimum wage hike, and then give Sanders and Warren credit for bringing you around on those issues to a compromise, to try to give their supporters more than a begrudging endorsement as incentive to support him. Might be worth a shot?
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Hopefully this time around the progressives don't stay home or have a vote for Trump tantrum. Now that the Democratic candidate is all but settled everyone needs to coalesce behind Biden and get out the vote as much as possible.
To that end, if Bernie really cares about the well-being of the country as much as he claims, he needs to step aside and provide a full-throated endorsement for Biden. Same with Warren. I hope we see Bernie, Sanders, Obama and others stump hard for Biden. I also hope that Bloomberg throws a bunch of money behind him. The world needs all hands on deck for this one.
All signs point to it not being nearly as much a factor as it was last time. The rhetoric is down, Bernie's base has shrunk, the primaries look to be decisive and not controversial.
I've not an AOC fan at all, but I've been impressed from what I've seen from her through this. While she's enthusiastically supporting Bernie, she's made an effort to stay away from the rigged/Bernie or Bust type comments. Her and Bernie bowing out gracefully, being good sports and throwing even a minimal level of support behind Biden will make a difference.
Bernie's failure to do as well this time as in 2016 is due to a few factors:
1. In 2016, Hillary was always the presumptive nominee. Sanders was an insurgent, and really the only alternative. People like an underdog, and people really hate a coronation. In this case, Biden was leading in the polls for a while, then it looked like Warren was going to be the front runner, then Pete looked like he had a shot (although was never a favourite), then Sanders won the first few states and looked like a front runner... By the time Biden really took the lead, the whole thing was basically over. Very different race.
2. No one liked Hillary anyway, because of long-standing Republican smearing of her public persona. They'd been beating up on her for two decades, but especially since '08, because she was also the presumptive nominee way back then. Biden just doesn't have that. Listening to Joe Biden talk does not necessarily make anyone's heart beat faster like listening to Obama did, but no one seems to really hate him (besides a few Bernie people who wouldn't hold any such views if he weren't in this race and about to beat their guy). People hated Hillary. Hillary got more negative press during the Obama administration than Biden, even as the VP.
3. People like Bernie, but the people who support Bernie - the grassroots who have to convince their friends to vote Bernie - an unfortunately large proportion of them are insufferable, presumptuous, strident morons. They're exactly the sorts of people who you'd expect to see this morning saying they aren't going to vote for Biden in the general but will complain for the next four years about Trump. When someone like that tries to secure your vote, you might nod along to avoid an argument but you're not particularly likely to be convinced. Now, last time around, there were plenty of Hillary supporters who could be similarly caricatured, lobbing around accusations of sexism if you won't vote for Hillary, demanding people fall in line, trying to put their finger on the scales, and so forth. Can you even name a Biden surrogate? What does a Biden supporter even look like? They're probably not wearing a T-shirt announcing their affiliation. This is sort of a corollary of the first one - Biden's inoffensive, so are his supporters.
4. Biden spoke directly to working class people, and didn't make any effort to appeal to woke intersectionalists and the NYT editorial board, which were Hillary's core constituency in 2016. As Warren's campaign demonstrated pretty clearly, that's a losing strategy even in a Democratic primary. Bernie didn't go all out the way Warren did, but he did adopt those politics as his strategy to try to win over a chunk of Biden's African American support, and predictably, it yielded no obvious results.
The weird thing here is that normally when you win a primary you have to make a hard pivot to the center for the general. Biden's already in the middle. He might actually have to take a bit of a left turn on a few issues - throw a few bones to the progressive wing - just to try to get them on board. Say, include the wealth tax, some student loan forgiveness and a minimum wage hike, and then give Sanders and Warren credit for bringing you around on those issues to a compromise, to try to give their supporters more than a begrudging endorsement as incentive to support him. Might be worth a shot?
I suspect Biden might actually pick Warren for his VP, checks all his boxes off except for the Black vote and he really doesn't need to firm that up, especially as once he's the nominee an up until now very quiet Obama will hit the stumps hard and loud for him.
My guess is by the time we get to November the Obama's will be the face of the Biden campaign
I suspect Biden might actually pick Warren for his VP, checks all his boxes off except for the Black vote and he really doesn't need to firm that up, especially as once he's the nominee an up until now very quiet Obama will hit the stumps hard and loud for him.
My guess is by the time we get to November the Obama's will be the face of the Biden campaign
I don't see it. Hasn't Warren completely turned the hard left against her? Also, she would set the ticket up to be targeted with anti-socialist Super PAC ads asking if you really want to risk having someone like this take over for 80 year old Joe Biden.
I agree though, that the black vote really isn't a question any more. They feel some level of empowerment that they got the nominee they wanted. And they also hate Trump with far more passion than any other demographic.
I don't see it. Hasn't Warren completely turned the hard left against her? Also, she would set the ticket up to be targeted with anti-socialist Super PAC ads asking if you really want to risk having someone like this take over for 80 year old Joe Biden.
I agree though, that the black vote really isn't a question any more. They feel some level of empowerment that they got the nominee they wanted. And they also hate Trump with far more passion than any other demographic.
In some ways though having the Trumpers go after Warren as the easy target would be a good thing, it would leave Biden as the face of decent normalcy the voters want back, he would get to rise above the fray largely untouched and look like the bigger and kinder man
The weird thing here is that normally when you win a primary you have to make a hard pivot to the center for the general. Biden's already in the middle. He might actually have to take a bit of a left turn on a few issues - throw a few bones to the progressive wing - just to try to get them on board. Say, include the wealth tax, some student loan forgiveness and a minimum wage hike, and then give Sanders and Warren credit for bringing you around on those issues to a compromise, to try to give their supporters more than a begrudging endorsement as incentive to support him. Might be worth a shot?
Terrible idea that would be impossible to administer and is probably unconstitutional anyway. Were I an American, I would likely vote for Biden, but not if he were in favour of a wealth tax.
