A little bit. Big part of the issue was that the professional exam results were published by originating university.
So there was this really perverse incentive for universities to send only the most battle hardened candidates into the process to kept the very public stats on the uni's performance on these independent professional exams high.
And if you think that's wild - it gets better. This being HN: Some enterprising genius looked at this entire process and decided he's going to set up a recruitment company that does nothing other than exporting survivors of above process. Literally park them anywhere globally - nothing really matters & nobody cares where cause clearly these guys can cope and collecting a juicy placement fee is easy money. One of the best/safest business models I've ever seen - leverages a beautifully subtle anomaly in the global labour market that isn't immediately obvious to outsiders.
>Being able to handle acute stress is not that useful for a civil engineer or similar.
Alas in my particular world (Accounting/auditing) it is. 3 months of soul crushing stress and rest of year is more relaxed. Rinse & repeat.
>Teaching people to handle chronic stress?
That's one saving grace I guess. I find that 3 months of intense stress is bearable. Or rather it's about the limit of my endurance.
Certainly not healthy - talking about this purely practically.
> Alas in my particular world (Accounting/auditing) it is. 3 months of soul crushing stress and rest of year is more relaxed. Rinse & repeat.
Cripes.
And I bet that the soul-crushing stress even after you've gotten the license is probably because you don't have enough people licensed to do the work, which in turn is because the universities try to keep their stats high which artificially restricts the supply. And there's probably a feedback loop going on where the industry considers the stress "normal" and adds it to the PE because "that's how the industry is and you need to be able to handle it", normalizing the deviance and inducing evaporative cooling [1].
No offense, and thank you for being able to handle your job because auditing is one of those things that's certainly necessary for the smooth functioning of civilization and it really sounds to me like the supply of that capability is dangerously restricted, but... yet again I am thankful that my interests guided me to a career in software engineering.
Yeah sometimes I wonder about that career choice of mine. Software or actual engineering would have been cool.
>it really sounds to me like the supply of that capability is dangerously restricted
In some countries yes quite restricted, don't think dangerously so. Way more scared of them rubberstamping poor candidates. Plus auditing isn't particularly difficult to be honest.
>one of those things that's certainly necessary for the smooth functioning of civilization
Maybe. I'm not 100% convinced. I'll definitely take the job security though.
A little bit. Big part of the issue was that the professional exam results were published by originating university.
So there was this really perverse incentive for universities to send only the most battle hardened candidates into the process to kept the very public stats on the uni's performance on these independent professional exams high.
And if you think that's wild - it gets better. This being HN: Some enterprising genius looked at this entire process and decided he's going to set up a recruitment company that does nothing other than exporting survivors of above process. Literally park them anywhere globally - nothing really matters & nobody cares where cause clearly these guys can cope and collecting a juicy placement fee is easy money. One of the best/safest business models I've ever seen - leverages a beautifully subtle anomaly in the global labour market that isn't immediately obvious to outsiders.
>Being able to handle acute stress is not that useful for a civil engineer or similar.
Alas in my particular world (Accounting/auditing) it is. 3 months of soul crushing stress and rest of year is more relaxed. Rinse & repeat.
>Teaching people to handle chronic stress?
That's one saving grace I guess. I find that 3 months of intense stress is bearable. Or rather it's about the limit of my endurance.
Certainly not healthy - talking about this purely practically.