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What's Next for Liam

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[Liam Waters]

Growing up I always had a passion for numbers.

I remember I was with my mum at a pharmacy and the power had gone out. So, the pharmacist's calculator on the computer wasn't working. She had, I think, about six or seven items and she was putting them all on the table and I just blurted out a number to my mum and the pharmacist, which was around like $47.60 or something. And after the lady had finished calculating everything on her paper, she looked at me, she's like, "how did you know that?"

In high school, I didn't really have the teachers that could nurture my ability as much as I wanted to.

I remember giving my maths book to the teacher I had. It was like 50% of our mark was based on us handing in our book with all the maths done for the year. And he lost it. So, I had failed.

Coming into the bachelor degree, I actually had to take a secondary route. I had to go through a diploma, because I didn't qualify enough to get into the bachelor first time.

What helped me progress from the Diploma of Accounting into a Bachelor of Business is the teachers are really supportive and helped push students go beyond the diploma into another field. So, I chose to go into the Bachelor of Business, because I thought that is something that would set me up for the rest of my life and something that I can enjoy.

Ingrid is really nice. She's really passionate about what she teaches. And Peter has taught me two classes now. Business Finance and Quantitative Analysis.

The advice I would give to someone in high school is to continue doing as best as you can, but don't worry, because there's other ways to get into university for the thing that you want to really do.

What's next for me, is after I finish my degree, I'll get onto the path of wealth management and one day work at one of the big four banks.

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Justin: The best part about studying business at RMIT is all the staff. They're very helpful. They're friendly. They really like to interact with their students. And as well as being in the city, you get to interact with a lot of the businesses around, like all the major firms, which is also a bonus.

Tristan: Talent search for RMIT, I think it's actually really good ,and it's actually booming. [inaudible 00:00:18], currently with their events, great, and they throw great events to fit everyone, no matter where you come from, your background, anything. Everyone's included. Everyone's welcome.

Adriana: I love learning at my own pace, but also working alongside mentors, such as my teachers that have industry experience as well. So I thought that was so valuable when I was choosing this course.

Sandra: RMIT has really allowed me to kind of learn at my own pace whilst working part-time, because they kind of understand that I can't be at Uni five days a week, and flexible learning has allowed me to really adjust my timetable to cater to working part-time.

Tristan: The working's better learning experiences so far have actually been really great, and I've think they're really beneficial. Working with real clients, in my perspective, is a lot more engaging and it actually applies all the knowledge you've got to actually real-world scenarios that will actually take place. And there are limitations. You can't just make things up. You actually need to have evidence to back up everything that you bring to the table. That real-world sort of experience that they're giving you, which you really can't get anywhere else.

Samara: One of our subjects that you have to do as a core subject, you actually go work in our RMIT practice firm, which is absolutely amazing. You get your own little desk, and you have a client that you go to to work for. So I think there was three files that you're managing.

Samara: Yeah, so it shows you what work in industry would actually be like.

Justin: During the summer, I'll be doing a vacationer internship with Deloitte. I'm really interested in starting that, because it'll be able to put what I've learned into actual the work force.