E9: Big 4 -> Army Officer -> Jumping Out of Plane and Almost Dying ->Top MBA

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🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Member @Rogue_Pogue_Monkey shares his story from making it to the Big 4, the struggles of passing the CPA and how he got promoted. Learn why everything changed, why he decided to join the army and what happened when he collided into the parachute of another officer at 900 feet. His AMA is right here.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general. Let's get to it.
0:24.5	In this episode, member Rogue Pogue Monkey, that's Rogue underscore Pogue underscore Monkey,
0:30.0	shares his story from making it to the big four, the struggles of passing the CPA and how he got
0:34.7	promoted. Learn why everything changed, why he decided to join the
0:38.7	army, and what happened when he collided into the parachute of another officer at 900 feet?
0:44.7	Enjoy.
0:54.1	All right, Rogue Pogue Monkey.
0:56.0	Thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.
0:59.9	Absolutely. It's my pleasure. I'm glad to be here.
1:02.0	Yeah, just real quick, if you could just give the listeners a little bit of background about yourself.
1:07.3	Sure. So, I'm originally from the D.C. area. My background, when I started in college, is accounting. I joined a big four firm immediately out of my graduate undergrad program. And from there, a little bit of tax, a little bit of advisory. Being that it was in DC, the advisory was federally oriented.
1:31.3	From there, I had the opportunity to take the CPA.
1:36.3	CPA was a very, very interesting part of my life.
1:39.3	It was very challenging.
1:40.3	And it was at that point because of that challenge that I kind of asked myself, hey, what else can I do, right?
1:47.1	That led me to make a very interesting decision that my peers were very shocked about.
1:54.8	I actually ended up joining the Army as an officer.
1:58.5	So I've been a logistics officer now for the past three and a half years or so.
2:04.8	And with that, I actually am coming now to the close of that phase. And I'm starting my next phase,
2:10.9	which is entering a top 10 MBA program, which I'm very, very excited to start.
2:16.3	Congressman, that's a huge relief to get into a good school and to be having that next chapter, I'm sure.
2:23.6	Oh, yeah, it was, you know, the whole GMAT, GRE discussion and, you know, do I have a chance here and there?
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