Alphabet Soup

This popped up on my YouTube recommendations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq7_L2zwA3U&t=217s

Aswini Bajaj, BCom (SXC), CA, CS, CFA, FRM, CAIA, CIPM, CCRA, CIRA, CIIB, AIM

“Why…?” being the obvious question here… Imagine the business card - tasteful thickness, sure, but doesn’t leave much real estate for a watermark.

Because life. There is absolutely a diminishing return to adding as many qualifications to your CV as possible, particularly when they span such a broad range of fields as this. You could argue that for some people learning = life, but you could easily do this without needing to cover course costs as well as the ongoing associated membership fees.

[video:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i6l8MFdTaPE]

Why so serious? :slight_smile:

On the ongoing membership fees, agree that this is merely an assumption, however given you typically need to pay dues to be able to use these designations after your name publicly I feel it’s a fairly well-founded one.

Seems I’ve hit somewhat of a nerve here though - you do you man.

life is about your insta profile. if there are no pics, did it really happen.

I agree, these sort of people are generally covering for career deficiencies. You can learn (and far more efficiently about better topics) without a bunch of meaningless certifications. Plus they’re all overlapping (and this person is putting it out there publicly) so it’s about some misguided ego trip.

i don’t know what half of those acronyms are but i hate when people put bcom or b-whatever when it is redundant. i personally feel that including b-whatever actually takes away from the others as it proves he is just getting the designations to add length to his head mast.

Most aren’t even acronyms; they’re only initialisms.

Thank god I don’t have one of those. What a complete waste of time.

srsly tik tok so much better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw4YAmCf8I8

Once Mother said “My little pet You ought to learn your alphabet!” So in my soup I used to get All the letters of the alphabet I learned them all from A to Z And now my Mother’s giving me Animal crackers in my soup Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop Gosh, oh gee! but I have fun Swallowing animals one by one

True, it is rare to see even the Chair of the Harvard College Fund achieve so many designations.

Acronyms vs initialisms is probably my favorite SFW fact I’ve learned from reddit.

From which forum on reddit?