<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nxzero</author><text>Something like...&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Accounting is the language of business. Accurate, precise, and timely financial information is vital to the success of any business.&amp;quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>encoderer</author><text>What is the appropriate answer, for the aspiring accountants among us?</text></item><item><author>bshimmin</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s quite a list!  I can&amp;#x27;t really compete at all, apart from to say that I too was rejected by Deloitte, in somewhat amusing circumstances - having negotiated the necessary hoops to get to a final interview, the very nice lady interviewing me asked what should, really, have been a very simple question: &amp;quot;Why do you want to become an accountant?&amp;quot;  Sadly some sort of terrible realisation hit me at this point and I froze, looked at her in horror, paused for an eternity before finally answering, &amp;quot;Well, I&amp;#x27;ve always liked numbers!&amp;quot;  She looked baffled.  I started laughing.  She started laughing too (probably, in retrospect, nervously).  That was the end of my fledgling career as an accountant.</text></item><item><author>secfirstmd</author><text>Ha, this reminds me of my own track record in applying for jobs...&lt;p&gt;I must have possibly the widest number of rejections by many of the most prestigious companies, NGOs and government institutions in the world.&lt;p&gt;Prestigious names like Google, Apple, Facebook, McKinsey, Stripe, The Guardian, BBC, UN, Amnesty International, Christian Aid, Shell, Statoil, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, US Embassy London, UK Labour Party, UK Foreign Office, Stroz Freidberg, Billiter, Mandiant, Portland PR, KPMG, Deloitte - that&amp;#x27;s just a sample!&lt;p&gt;After awhile I decided I was just better off setting up my own company - and haven&amp;#x27;t looked back since. Now some of them work with and have to hire my company instead. :)&lt;p&gt;If anyone feels bored and wants to add your name to such an illustrious list, drop me an email with a job description, I&amp;#x27;ll make a fake application and you too can reject with the stars... :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CV of Failures [pdf]</title><url>https://www.princeton.edu/~joha/Johannes_Haushofer_CV_of_Failures.pdf</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tenismyanswer</author><text>I love money</text><parent_chain><item><author>encoderer</author><text>What is the appropriate answer, for the aspiring accountants among us?</text></item><item><author>bshimmin</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s quite a list!  I can&amp;#x27;t really compete at all, apart from to say that I too was rejected by Deloitte, in somewhat amusing circumstances - having negotiated the necessary hoops to get to a final interview, the very nice lady interviewing me asked what should, really, have been a very simple question: &amp;quot;Why do you want to become an accountant?&amp;quot;  Sadly some sort of terrible realisation hit me at this point and I froze, looked at her in horror, paused for an eternity before finally answering, &amp;quot;Well, I&amp;#x27;ve always liked numbers!&amp;quot;  She looked baffled.  I started laughing.  She started laughing too (probably, in retrospect, nervously).  That was the end of my fledgling career as an accountant.</text></item><item><author>secfirstmd</author><text>Ha, this reminds me of my own track record in applying for jobs...&lt;p&gt;I must have possibly the widest number of rejections by many of the most prestigious companies, NGOs and government institutions in the world.&lt;p&gt;Prestigious names like Google, Apple, Facebook, McKinsey, Stripe, The Guardian, BBC, UN, Amnesty International, Christian Aid, Shell, Statoil, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, US Embassy London, UK Labour Party, UK Foreign Office, Stroz Freidberg, Billiter, Mandiant, Portland PR, KPMG, Deloitte - that&amp;#x27;s just a sample!&lt;p&gt;After awhile I decided I was just better off setting up my own company - and haven&amp;#x27;t looked back since. Now some of them work with and have to hire my company instead. :)&lt;p&gt;If anyone feels bored and wants to add your name to such an illustrious list, drop me an email with a job description, I&amp;#x27;ll make a fake application and you too can reject with the stars... :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CV of Failures [pdf]</title><url>https://www.princeton.edu/~joha/Johannes_Haushofer_CV_of_Failures.pdf</url></story>