A New Start
Suddenly thought of blogging down my thoughts and looking at the dates, I seem to be blogging once every half a year? haha!
Friends who have been kept updated via my posts and status updates on facebook will probably know that I'm moving on after 5 years! No longer an auditor and now moving on to the real commercial world!
During this period, I have been through a lot of emotions. Extracting from my farewell email to my colleagues and friends who are still with the firm:
"From the day I handed in my letter, there were mixed emotions of excitement about the new job as well as sense of loss and uncertainty. There are simply too many memorable things from the past 5 years which had kept me going and which I can't bear to part with.
As I was serving my notice, I started to realise that these things have become such as integral part of my life in the firm. I started to realise how much I will miss those long lunches of gossiping and complaining, the times of working in a team with lots of sharing and coaching, the dinners and all the late nights of working together with all my teams and fellow peers."
Nevertheless, I guess everyone need to move on one day or another. I believe that we will still be able to meet up outside work!
I think I must be one of luckiest auditor around. Started off with a rare opportunity to do my internship with one of the Big 4 (where there are so many candidates and I was one of the lucky ones to be selected), to being offered a job in the firm after graduation. Thereafter, 5 years of pretty smooth sailing audit life (with minimal tough times) to such good offer and opportunity that just dropped right in front of my doorstep. I really have all the luck to thank for!
I don't dislike audit...seriously. Never once in my 5 years have I ever dislike audit. Some of you fellow ex-auditors must be thinking I'm crazy! haha! But its true. I kind of like it. The dynamics of the work nature that make my work so interesting, the different people I met and befriend whether they are my colleagues in the team or accountants at the client's, the issues and solutions that always make me feel that I'm continuously learning and the satisfaction of completing the whole audit. That's probably what has kept me going for 5 years.
The decision to move out, therefore, is never a push factor. It was a pull. The lure of a "better work life balance" is a small contributing factor. I don't know if working in commercial will really bring me more free time but I'm willing to give it a try. Staying in audit has never been a long term plan. It is a matter of time to move out. Before I get too "rusty" and before the inertial and opportunity to move gets too difficult. Most importantly, I believe that in commercial, I will learn things which I will probably never learn in audit. Going deeper into the operational and finance aspects of a Company and not only looking from the surface. Understanding certain business rationale from my own personal learning experience and not via meetings with the management. These are just one of the many things which I'm looking forward to learning.
And so, I'm going to rest myself well and enjoy myself as much as possible during this period before getting ready for my new start on 1 Sept 2010! ^_^
posted by Sunshine at 11:09 PM
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The different reactions:
Our appetiser came shortly after we ordered: Decadent Salad with prawns, egg and foie gras...as with most other yummy salad, differentiating factor with this salad is the dressing...it goes very well with the vege, prawn and egg...the foie gras portion was a little small though...only 3 pieces...
HS and Roland
YH and Simon (Simon can't stop eating?)
