Tuesday, January 05, 2010
10:50 PM
Started my first audit job today, and it was just sucky.
And it was after this job, just this alone, that I realised I really hate auditing.
Moving up n down asking clients for documents, "May I have this?", "May I have that?"
It really tests my patience.
For goodness sake, friends of Pei Zhen know that patience is the last thing she has and a challenge for her to change.


The only grateful thing for this job is that the staffs from the accounts departments are friendly and patient enough to guide me through.
Unlike the associated auditor-in charge (senior to put simply), who just assume that I know everything when I have only completed training last week. And the worst thing is that during the period of core training, the whole lesson seems to be a waste of time with that slacker trainer cum manager of mine.

I really can't imagine the amount of patience you must have when in the midst of closing your accounts for the month/year, the auditor keeps bugging you for this document, that document. Even the auditor myself feels so irritated, then how I am to expect people not to be annoyed by me. What to do, this is the nature of audit life.

It is always a symptom, that after you have completed all your working papers, you realised that there is no or even a small amount of satisfaction in you and this is when you started to ask yourself why and what exactly goes wrong. It is only then that you realised how much you love to be in that little comfort zone of yours, looking into the computer screen and working hard on the little area you are in charge of. And this is exactly how I feel now.

Begin to realise that whatever promises you made in the past, or even few days ago, they will all turn to bullshit and become invalid when you actually experience the so called "experience" yourself and it all turns out to be a big joke. And you know that for each day that you persist and hang on for that promise, you are still leading a non-meaningless life with lies. This explains why some people can work for their entire life without finding their ideal job.

Felt the urge to complain to Dad just now about how much auditing is so loathsome, I am defeated by his reply. Yea, this line is indeed what I have chosen for myself and could blame no one. And my Dad even told me encouragingly that this is just the starting, who knows what will happen later? I admitted silently in my heart.

Yes. I choose to leave my comfort zone and join the audit field to gain more experience and exposure for the better opportunities in years to come. But the question is, for the better opportunities, how much price am I willing to pay?
And will I really be more 'experienced' and 'exposed' after the many 365 passing years, or will I just be like what my accountant deemed us DT auditors to be- half water pail?

Given my personality and my stubbornness, the latter is a possibility.
And for now, I have no answer.

真。心话