What is the fastest time you attained your diploma?

Huskeez · Mar 26, 2015

Hey guys,

Just interested to see what kind of times some of you achieved your diploma or anything similar in.

A lot of the correspondence online diplomas these days are open book/multichoice exams. I was talking to a guy the other day who said he got his financial planning diploma in 2 months while working fulltime and raising 3 kids.

Anyone got any similar stories?

volpunter · Mar 27, 2015

you get what you pay. You can buy a diploma and have it sent to your inbox right after they processed your credit card.

Huskeez said:
Hey guys,

Just interested to see what kind of times some of you achieved your diploma or anything similar in.

A lot of the correspondence online diplomas these days are open book/multichoice exams. I was talking to a guy the other day who said he got his financial planning diploma in 2 months while working fulltime and raising 3 kids.

Anyone got any similar stories?

FCXoptions · Mar 27, 2015

It depends what kind of degree you are talking about. While in school I had my first kid, worked full time, and will be finishing up my finance degree next semester. It will take me 5 years from when I started. I could have done it faster but had lots of scheduling issues. They only offered a couple night classes per semester that I needed so that really slowed down the process.

Ditch · Mar 27, 2015

I completed a post-master executive program in finance & control in 2,5 years, for which the nominal duration was 3 years, while working full-time in a senior management position, commuting 2-3 hours a day and going through a divorce. Studied four evenings a week and every sunday, looked like a total zombie according to friends.
One year after graduation I quit and took up trading.

volpunter · Mar 28, 2015

Wow that sounds like a valuable degree. "Post master executive" and "senior management position" ...and then unemployed day trader.

But then we are not allowed to call someone a "secretary" anymore ...it is a "senior executive assistant" . So much bullshit...so few truths.

Ditch said:
I completed a post-master executive program in finance & control in 2,5 years, for which the nominal duration was 3 years, while working full-time in a senior management position, commuting 2-3 hours a day and going through a divorce. Studied four evenings a week and every sunday, looked like a total zombie according to friends.
One year after graduation I quit and took up trading.

Ditch · Mar 28, 2015

volpunter said:
Wow that sounds like a valuable degree. "Post master executive" and "senior management position" ...and then unemployed day trader.

But then we are not allowed to call someone a "secretary" anymore ...it is a "senior executive assistant" . So much bullshit...so few truths.

http://www.eur.nl/esaa/post_master_...ZG5l0_R02tCAjjs0k2HA2xaf-2HbAw3qWYaApee8P8HAQ

http://brochures.esaa.nl/04_Registercontroller/index.html

So much for BS. And what is your educational background?

Ditch · Mar 28, 2015

volpunter said:
Wow that sounds like a valuable degree. "Post master executive" and "senior management position" ...and then unemployed day trader.

But then we are not allowed to call someone a "secretary" anymore ...it is a "senior executive assistant" . So much bullshit...so few truths.

Anyway, thanks for the reminder not to divulge anything personal or professional on a public message board.

volpunter · Mar 28, 2015

No problem to divulge something as long as you can deal with others commenting on it.

I studied comp finance at CMU

Ditch said:
Anyway, thanks for the reminder not to divulge anything personal or professional on a public message board.

Ditch · Mar 28, 2015

volpunter said:
No problem to divulge something as long as you can deal with others commenting on it.

I studied comp finance at CMU

Comments are fine, implying someone is a liar or a fraud not.

volpunter · Mar 28, 2015

you wrote: "I completed a post-master executive program in finance & control in 2,5 years, for which the nominal duration was 3 years, while working full-time in a senior management position, commuting 2-3 hours a day and going through a divorce. Studied four evenings a week and every sunday, looked like a total zombie according to friends.
One year after graduation I quit and took up trading."

Is that what normal people do? One is in a "senior management position" (your wording), then joins a "post-master executive program" (any more superlatives?), and then you waste the tens if not hundreds of thousands and become a day trader? Am I seeing bullshit where there is not? Then I sincerely apologize...but comments such as yours explain everything I need to know to understand why so many lose in trading. Any an all coherence, logic, determination is missing/lacking.

Ditch said:
There's a difference between insults and comments.