I've been royally screwed over by the formal post secondary education system and especially CPA Canada. https://ift.tt/u285giN this post gives some details.Since I was kicked out of CPA, I've been diagnosed with ADHD and it really explains a lot. Ever since elementary school, I've been unable to complete projects/assignments. It's hard to explain but it was just literally impossible to work up the motivation to do anything on an academic assignment. Didn't matter if I scheduled an entire evening for it. I would sit there for six hours staring at the screen and get nothing done. When I passed a course, it was because I aced the exam. Three times I got the highest exam mark in Manitoba on CGA exams. I wasted tens of thousands of dollars and years of my time pursuing these, IMO, worthless paper credentials.I never had difficulty focusing on real world tasks in my jobs. Every performance review I've had has been exceptional. I've learned so much more from my work experience than my studies. Despite my exceptional performance, I was drastically underpaid because of my lack of credentials. When I left my job as a property accountant, my replacement was hired for $30k more. She had her CPA, and the job posting required it. It was literally the same job I had. The only difference was I was the first person to have it, so I built all the reports and procedures from scratch. They just had to continue what I did.Anyway, now to the present. In 2021, I started my bookkeeping/consulting business, and it's been incredibly successful. I fully launched in June 2021, and since then it's just been taking off. My USP is I study bookkeeping like a science, and I apply my knowledge of coding, process optimization, and accounting to come up with a unique solution for each client that provides them incredible value. I also work as a general business consultant, and have secured over $10MM in financing for my clients since June 2021 based on projections and models I've created. I've now grown my staff to three full time entry-level employees, and I feel amazing about that! It's really great providing a living for someone and working on advancing their career.I feel my success so far is a start in terms of sticking the middle finger at CPA and all post-secondary education institutions. But I'm now at a bit of a crossroads. I'm at the point where I need to hire another professional employee. I can't manage this all on my own. The problem is I swore I would give zero value to any formal post-secondary education and basically value time spent there like a career gap for personal reasons. This worked fine for hiring entry-level staff, but is a lot harder for the position I'm currently trying to fill.I think if I put any value on post-secondary formal education, I basically become a customer of these institutions I hate so much. Their value proposition is employers will place a value on the degrees we offer. I, as an employer have an option to say fuck that, I place zero value on it. I feel if I decide to value it I'd be selling out. Yet objectively, it probably hurts my business growth. Idk what to do. Maybe I can find someone like me who is a qualified professional without any formal certification? see hubwealthy.com/wealthy
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