I’m bored. So bored sitting alone in client’s office. I was hoping that I could finish all my work today and able to go back to my office tomorrow. And I don’t know what the manager have for me as my next job. I hope I won’t be on the job alone again. if it is alone I hope the client is just as good as this one which is a simple job and yet friendly client. But I know it’s hard to get this type of client. And furthermore I hope the location of the client is easily accessible. A place which is not remote and food are easily available. Usually there are a lot of surprises being an auditor. You will never know where you will be the following week or the next day. So all we could do is just cross our fingers and hope everything fell in place such as the client’s attitude, the location, the distance from you house, the EY personnel you are gonna work with, the nature of the company, the size of the audit etc.

But if you are already at the senior stage, the upcoming jobs are pretty predictable because it’s a revolving thing. So what you have done last year most likely you’ll be doing the same client this year. So there is lesser surprises if you are at the higher rank of the hierarchy.

Anyway it is a good experience to be on a job alone. You are able to learn more things and take bigger responsibility. But the only problem is that you’ll be really bored and lonely and there is no one to rely on if you have any problems encountered.

So far, it has been close to a year I’ve worked in EY. I can say that there are bad and good memories here. I hope in future, there are many more happy memories. All I can say is that it is not easy being an auditor. Auditor’s job is basically doing lots of donkey work and gets low pay. But the experience wise is at its peak. That’s why many auditors don’t stay long in an audit firm. They will leave the firm once they find their experience is enough to conquer the commercial world.

Furthermore we work our ass off by doing lots of OT especially in the month of January and February and certain other months of the year depending on the client. We even do lots of social work as well. Most of the expenses such as petrol and parking fees at client are out form our own pockets. We can’t claim the whole amount. And most of the OT is burned because they don’t want to blow the audit fees budget just to show the efficiency. Sigh… this is the life of an auditor. Such miserable life they have. I can’t believe it that I’m one of them. I hope that after all this time I’ve spent working in EY does pays off when I go into commercial line. Better salary, better employee benefit, lesser OT, lesser stress and more happy. That would be few years down the drain. I can’t wait for that time to come. I feel so jealous of my seniors who just left EY. I feel like being in their shoes right now. They are so happy to leave the firm and yet I’m still stuck here for god knows how many more years.

My best advice to all of you out there, please don’t become an auditor. It is a very demoralizing job. If it’s not because of the pay I wouldn’t be here working my ass off. So sometimes when you heard me ponteng-ing work, it’s a good thing. At least I don’t stress myself out if I got the opportunity to ponteng. Well, at least I still get my work done on time. This is the only luxury an auditor gets. But just make sure that you don’t get caught by any of the EY personnel. Have to be careful and be prepared for all the excuses if you are being caught red handed. Hehehehe..