Goodbye

Date:14 April 2011

Duration:1144pm

It's the 14. and left few more minutes i should say, it's the end of my internship with this audit firm. Today should be a day of releasing for me and coursemates. Well, it does not seem to be a special days to me. It was not my last day working. Though tomorrow is holiday, bringing back work to do is not an abnormal phenomena anymore. I am staying back for two more weeks, bringing back works to do is still considerable. As for Sri, he is really ending his training and yet he needs to come out with a report before he finally off from this audit firm. The team leader asked him to email the draft report to him once he's done, isn't this a bit harsh?

He is not just an example that i could mention, there was another trainee previously working in this audit firm who had worked overtime before she left. She even needed to come back on Saturday after the last Friday she had in the firm to draft her report. I started to worry actually.The last job that i am going to take would determine my destiny. The higher the audit fee, the worse would i be. Or should i be more optimistic? The much more i would learn?

Seeing this two real life examples and hearing so much more examples from colleages, i need to be frank that i am really in worries.

I am still in the previous weeks job. There are too many changes to make, with each changes getting more and more major and causing bigger and bigger impacts to the reports i'm drafting.

Firstly, it was the disclosure amendments from partners, and next is the changes in adoption of PERS to FRS. AND THAT'RE REALLY HUGE DIFFERENCES between PERS and FRS--> especially in year 2010 when the new FRS is effective from. The disclosures could just double the total pages.

Despite that, i really learnt a lot from just drafting the reports. I thank the team leader that i am under right now. She sincerely taught me the FRS which i think she could probably choose not to tell me.

Frankly speaking, in working world, people has the right to NOT TO HELP or NOT TO TEACH you a single thing, what would he/ she gets in return when he/she wastes his/her time teaching ?

I appreciated all the things i learned from this audit firm, all the helping hands that are just right there for me when i am stucked in a problem, all the guidances from the team leaders, the seniors, all the tolerance for mistakes i made,mall the joys that's brought to me.

Everyone is asking how much the firm is actually paying me that could make me willingly stay for two more weeks? Not frank answers i gave all the time. But a senior's words really reminded me of the ultimate purpose of the internship here.

He says:" Don't care how much they are paying you, if you 're staying for one more day with no pay, but with one more day experience that you're earning, it's far more worthwhile than the money that you'd be getting. The experience would get you richer. Don't just work but not learning like somebody"

I agreed his words. I know very well the purpose that i chose this firm but not the big fours. I just wanted to learn the most in the shortest time. As his saying. the experience would get you richer--> It's just another way of saying your fair value would get higher with more experience that you accumulate.

For the new trainees that've just entered or whoever that would be going intern soon, i wish you guys understand the saying above, care not that you're underpaid but overwork. You should be thankful that you're learning, learning to cope under stress, learning to have better time management and learning to communicate in the real adult world.

Once again, i am grateful though i'm actually groaning at the same time.

It's the end of six months internship, I have to go....but i do not know where i'm leaving for...,...

I am tired, but just not that willing to sleep...I'm sick, the coughing medicine just does not doze me off....