i think you misunderstood my bro!i just said we should develop our natural talents,like in 3 idiots film,they develop their natural talents,i just wanted to tell that your argument is correct,in other terms i'm too in your side
. Since you said 3 idiots, it inferred something else to me 
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Regarding your second point, trust me, only in SL, that people are stupid enough to waste money on two unrelated qualifications because they are that insecure inside
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Unrelated qualifications?? I am missing ur point in here??
spending that half a million some cost? It's not that if he becomes an accountant he will ever do civil engineering and vise versa. habai ape rate nerds la karana moda wada owa thamai.
Do you know how many Moratuwa engineering students study for CIMA
Hey!! those 19 year olds, after ALs - Read this with an open mind.
1) CIMA is extremely tough - some people here would try to bait you saying within 2.5 years you can complete the 4 stages, like tuk tik tuk and thereafter a Rs. 100,000 Accountant job is all possible
There are 12,000 CIMA students in SL, but only 3,000 have so far qualified as members, so the chance that you too will become a member is
only a mere 25%!! That means every 3 CIMA students out of every 4 CIMA students, will never make it to be a member in their life time.
I say that quoting the statistics published by the CIMA institute and from my own experience, because even those government uni students, who belong to the top 10% rankers of the AL students in SL, too have failed miserably in CIMA (don't even talk about Chartered), and so many of those had to drag this exam even after their 25th birthday, to qualify as passed finalists. And how expensive it is to fail in this exam do you think? And after becoming a passed finalist, you have to get 3 years of relevant work experience to qualify to become a member of that small 3,000 member community and until then you cannot apply for those very few full accountant jobs.
Now the worst part is, there are only some 10 accounting jobs advertised in the Sunday Observer/ Top jobs. But there are 12,000 CIMA students + some 30,000 Chartered students + thousands of SL uni accounting graduates to compete for that tiny little accounting job market in SL. And because of this big supply of accounting people, employers can always bargain to hire you even for just 20k. So just think how tough is your terrain going to be.
Forget those who point out what's published in the CIMA magazine, saying UK jobs are for Sri Lankans as well. I have lived and worked overseas for many years, so believe me, those UK jobs are for those who have UK experience and not for some SL experienced person. Therefore it's extremely rare, it not impossible to get into a UK job (which also needs a work visa where the employer has to first prove that there's no British national to do the same job) and if that's not the case, then all CIMA members would've already left SL for those greener pastures.
Note that your lecturers will force you to start working from the second stage itself, and that's where the cat jumps out of the bag, because people are simply too tired to study after 8 hours of work and 3 hours of lectures in the night, so no wonder they fail miserably and repeat an exam for quite a few times, and just imagine how fun do you think if you had to repeat ALs in the same fashion? Also if you do not have the luxury of a car and therefore have to spend another 1 - 2 hours to get back home, in a crowded bus, just ask yourself how practical it is to study some boring small letters and numbers.
I talk from my experience and if you want to get further proof, ask a member who had your own AL ranking but do not put all your hopes, money and happiness, in the words of some extremely bright CIMA member, who completed CIMA in 2.5 years in that tuk, tik, tuk fashion.
As a 19 year old fresh youth, know what you doing and be responsible for your actions, as wasted time, money and opportunity can never be replenished. Those who stagnate in CIMA for years are living zombies because they have a deep rooted belief that they cannot be happy in their life, without becoming a CIMA member. Best thing to do is to start your own business or to get enrolled in an affordable degree, if you do not have that extreme brightness of finishing this exam within 2.5 years or even 3 years. Otherwise, you will slowly get old doing nothing but stagnating in this boring exam, where some 9,000 others like you are already stagnating.
Believe me life is much more fun, if you have even your small business or can do a private uni degree, as the curriculum is more relaxed. If you want to be successful in life, do not rely on others to teach you what to do, but rely on your natural talents and ambitions just like every other successful person did. For e.g. if you are good at electric work, do a technical course and go Dubai and make money as an electrician and you will be paid number of times more at 20 than if you still have to do a boring accounts clerk job at 25. In the same sense, once you start your first CSE account, that's your first business for example.
Put your pride and what your parents think you should do, aside and do what makes you rich fast, because parents may not last long to fund your expensive CIMA drag. Or else 3/4th of those who read my small note, will regret in couple of years for not listening to this SL born Aussie, who had to go through all that crap to be successful at 30, because I did not have someone to tell me the same words of wisdom at that playful age of 19
Cheers!
Nalin
thanks for this really helped
. yannan wale yanne nathuwa, try to make the most out of your time, your old parents money and their few contacts, before they perish.
My point is if you are thinking of ditching your field for more money, just get the hell out of the public University and do cima on your own! There are many unlucky ppl out their dying to be come engineers while ppl like these just waste the chances of those ppl!
. pandithayanta edande yanna baha kiyanawane. I knew this engineer grad who went to work at a audit firm for the Rs. 2,000 salary for 4 years because he wanted to prove to the world that he's versatile . modaya kiyala marannaya.
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Go and tell your story to that 9,000 odd stagnating CIMA students, today! if you are saying that even the ones who belong outside the 4th quartile of AL passers, can pass CIMA, then tell me why the member/ student ratio stagnates at 1:4 and why even the 1st quartile AL passers, being the state uni students, drag this exam even after their 25th birthday?
I am a guy with an MBA ok. Just as CFA is hard an MBA too is hard. But get your facts straight before talking, as CFA and MBA are just secondary qualifications, which are only an option, so I do not know why you comparing CIMA with CFA? api me katha karanne CIMA nathuwa, degree nathuwa, jeewithe lost wela inna dasa dahas ganan tharuna kollo, kello wenuwen.
aiyse look where I live right now. mewage thanakata enna mama kochchara kattak kawada kiyala danne mama witharai. "little effort" damme naha kiyala kiwwe, ohe danne nathuwa athi, I even used to wake up at 2am to study, before going to work, simply because I couldn't keep my eyes open, after going to classes in the night before. You are simply ignorant about others, that's it.
You seem like a nerd/ poth gulla and I see that you are offended by me telling the truth about CIMA, to come to conclusion that I hate CIMA. It's not that I hate CIMA you fool. It's just that, I belong to the vast majority of people, who prefer to touch the nose, closest way, without having to go round the neck. api jeewith wenna asa minissu, nathiwa widawanna asa minissu nemei.
And if you think CIMA is the only & only basic qualification to the corporate world, let me remind you that, most SL ad for accountants, are ready to also accommodate those ones with a degree in accounting. Go check for yourself, if you think I am talking bull here. Therefore mama methana hadanne, to give the message that, look at the statistics before holding this tiger's tail, as you are much better off doing an affordable pvt degree or doing your own business kiyala.
Your ignorance just proves, how a fraction of people like you can make a youth lost in life, just like what happened to me
Go and tell your story to that 9,000 odd stagnating CIMA students, today! if you are saying that even the ones who belong outside the 4th quartile of AL passers, can pass CIMA, then tell me why the member/ student ratio stagnates at 1:4 and why even the 1st quartile AL passers, being the state uni students, drag this exam even after their 25th birthday?
I am a guy with an MBA ok. Just as CFA is hard an MBA too is hard. But get your facts straight before talking, as CFA and MBA are just secondary qualifications, which are only an option, so I do not know why you comparing CIMA with CFA? api me katha karanne CIMA nathuwa, degree nathuwa, jeewithe lost wela inna dasa dahas ganan tharuna kollo, kello wenuwen.
aiyse look where I live right now. mewage thanakata enna mama kochchara kattak kawada kiyala danne mama witharai. "little effort" damme naha kiyala kiwwe, ohe danne nathuwa athi, I even used to wake up at 2am to study, before going to work, simply because I couldn't keep my eyes open, after going to classes in the night before. You are simply ignorant about others, that's it.
You seem like a nerd/ poth gulla and I see that you are offended by me telling the truth about CIMA, to come to conclusion that I hate CIMA. It's not that I hate CIMA you fool. It's just that, I belong to the vast majority of people, who prefer to touch the nose, closest way, without having to go round the neck. api jeewith wenna asa minissu, nathiwa widawanna asa minissu nemei.
And if you think CIMA is the only & only basic qualification to the corporate world, let me remind you that, most SL ad for accountants, are ready to also accommodate those ones with a degree in accounting. Go check for yourself, if you think I am talking bull here. Therefore mama methana hadanne, to give the message that, look at the statistics before holding this tiger's tail, as you are much better off doing an affordable pvt degree or doing your own business kiyala.
Your ignorance just proves, how a fraction of people like you can make a youth lost in life, just like what happened to me
. I pity you..
Again ignorance. Those 355 passed finalists, are spreaded among the ages of 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s. Go to the CIMA institute and check the stats for yourself. But in your mind everyone is a 22 year old
Again ignorance. My MBA is from one of the top 100 universities in the world. For people like you, anyone who couldn't complete CIMA, and earning his qualifications from other sources, is a mervin silva. I pity you
onna okai oya wage pandithayanta edande yanna bahai kiyanne.
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