[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=investor]I consider a CPA an academic position. Maybe you don’t have the respect I do for the work that went into obtaining it. But, then again, you don’t have one do you?[/quote]

I’m sure you do consider a CPA an academic position (its not, of course). CPA stands for “Certified Public Accountant” and is a statutory title, not a degree. I do have respect for the work SK put in, hence my referencing his CPA in one of my earlier posts.

And, yes, I got your little barb about my not having a CPA, and, truthfully, not a night goes by that I don’t cry myself to sleep over it. I’ve also not run with the bulls in Pamplona, nor have I danced with the Bolshoi Ballet. All of these things haunt me ceaselessly.

I would opine that, if I were to have spent 16 years in Collage, I’d be pretty peeved with the results of my efforts, if this is the best you can come up with. I’d certainly hope for some blistering ripostes and the ability to showcase my towering intellect with a carefully crafted and splendidly deployed campaign of rhetorical “shock and awe”. A virtuoso tour-de-force, if you will.

Instead we’re treated to schoolyard putdowns and a stumbling, ham-handed assault that would embarrass a 4th grader. I’m guessing its hard to see through your tears and that snot is fouling the keyboard, thus causing this level of fumbling ineptitude.[/quote]
It is insults like these that made me include that mean statement about you not having a CPA. As I first read this post, I felt pangs of regret for having said that but you came through in fine fashion at the end, justifying my crass comment.
I know CPA’s and I know the work that goes into them. It is worthy of respect, just like an academic degree but it is not a degree so I called it an academic position. I guess that that difference was too subtle for you.