I wanted to join the Big 4. I wanted to know what was all the fuss about. I wanted to experience audit life. I wanted to know whether do I want to do it in the future.I wanted and I got it.
6 months of being clueless and nervous at all times is not fun but the experience that you get in return, is something that you can never trade it with anything else. I learned a lot in those six months.
* Gah, my writing is getting a bit rusty. I can't construct a simple sentence properly. *
With a few clients that I went to, I managed to learn about the routes available in KL. Going to work everyday seems like a new adventure especially if you're going to the office. Waking up at six,seven in the morning, getting ready, having to go through the Federal highway traffic and then you park your car at Lot F. A big car park area made specially for those working around that area but for the firm that I'm working for, its a bit special because we have our own shuttle bus. Its not a fancy bus. It's just another shuttle bus. Then, going into the building, we tag our own card and work starts.. Provided that there's any for you (interns).. If not, you can just lazy around and see who's online on ST and just start to chit chat. If there's no work, its a requirement for you to update your BBM status and change it to "Melangut" so that your other friends who are working there will know that you have nothing to do and their reply will be " You kat office jugak?! Yey! Let's have lunch together! Btw, I tengah melangut jugak!" And your BBM status will change again, " Melangut kat office with XXX" Hahaha this was among the fun things that I did at the office. Muahaha, other than that, having coffee at level 15 is quite exciting because sometimes, you just had to run upstairs or cabut from your seniors just to go have a laugh with your friend for a while, provided that there are friends la in the building. Other than that, you do some administrative work and you run around, going to the typist and such. Well, of course I had to do other things as well but you know, work is work.
I actually intended to write a much proper version of my internship but God, I feel like writing it now but I am actually to sleepy. So, would I want to join the same company again? Frankly, I like the firm. Its a professional firm and when you tell people that you're from that particular company, they go like "Oh wow.." but I guess the reaction comes with a price, which means you work like a....... I mean, you work like crazy. Not that I had to work like crazy la the other day but you tend to observe and see the surroundings around you and you can't stop but ponder if this is what you want to go through in your future? After all, you only have one life. But then again, I actually like the nature of the work but I hate the formality of the work that comes along with it. I hate. And if I really want to join, then I know I have to sacrifice my time, a lot. But on the other hand, I know I need the exposure, the knowledge and the skills. I have none. I need some. I really do. So now, if you do see me at the same building in a year's time, you know why and probably that's the last and the hardest choice I had to make or most probably(the biggest possibility) because some investment bank turn down my application to join them.
That's why.
