Second Year: This is the time when the most important part of CA starts.. Articleship and CA Final...
Having got selected into, say, a Big 4, you come to office on the first day, with stars in your eyes and visions of making a difference. Yet, the first day is NOTHING like you expect it to be. It goes something like this:
You're nervously waiting in the reception, when the rep from HR comes and ORDERS you to a conference room to sit down for induction. You look around and see that a few other people also share the same predicament and also appear equally terrified. Then, the torture of the first day begins- with an apparently endless round of Powerpoint presentations about what to do and what not to do (more of the latter :P). In the end, you feel you would have to trip over your own feet in order to obey all the rules :D. You're then taken off by your "buddy" to meet the rest of your department, and you get trapped into another endless whirl of faces and names and designations ( I was lucky, though. I met a few people who ended up as some of my best friends :) ).
The second day is, if possible, even more scary. You reach the audit department and you see a lot of professional looking people busy at their own work. You sit nervously at a desk, and hope someone notices you before long. At last, a kind person takes pity on you, and starts you off with simple work- data entry or casting or worst, printing :P. You take it up gratefully, but are also aware that everyone around works faster and so much more efficiently!!! By the end of the day, the ultimate happens: You're assigned to your first ever client!!!! You're surprised to see that it's already 6:30 pm, but when you make a move to go, so many people stare at you as if you've just killed a person ( You learn later that it is practically a sin to leave before 7:00 pm, and then only if you don't have work!!! ). You meekly stay back, and pretend to look busy. At 7 pm, you cant take it anymore, and bolt. So ends your first official day at work :D.
The first week and then month pass in a blur. You start client work, and quickly learn that all your ideas about " making a difference" were just those- ideas. You learn the "art" of documentation, and the skill to extract information from the client without offending, the "Tests of Details" and "Test of Controls"... the list is endless. But, you learn, and soon gain confidence :). Meanwhile, you also start recognising faces, making friends, and slowly, you begin to enjoy office, instead of dreading it :). ( Again, I was lucky, because I met some amazing people :) :) ).
Having got selected into, say, a Big 4, you come to office on the first day, with stars in your eyes and visions of making a difference. Yet, the first day is NOTHING like you expect it to be. It goes something like this:
You're nervously waiting in the reception, when the rep from HR comes and ORDERS you to a conference room to sit down for induction. You look around and see that a few other people also share the same predicament and also appear equally terrified. Then, the torture of the first day begins- with an apparently endless round of Powerpoint presentations about what to do and what not to do (more of the latter :P). In the end, you feel you would have to trip over your own feet in order to obey all the rules :D. You're then taken off by your "buddy" to meet the rest of your department, and you get trapped into another endless whirl of faces and names and designations ( I was lucky, though. I met a few people who ended up as some of my best friends :) ).
The second day is, if possible, even more scary. You reach the audit department and you see a lot of professional looking people busy at their own work. You sit nervously at a desk, and hope someone notices you before long. At last, a kind person takes pity on you, and starts you off with simple work- data entry or casting or worst, printing :P. You take it up gratefully, but are also aware that everyone around works faster and so much more efficiently!!! By the end of the day, the ultimate happens: You're assigned to your first ever client!!!! You're surprised to see that it's already 6:30 pm, but when you make a move to go, so many people stare at you as if you've just killed a person ( You learn later that it is practically a sin to leave before 7:00 pm, and then only if you don't have work!!! ). You meekly stay back, and pretend to look busy. At 7 pm, you cant take it anymore, and bolt. So ends your first official day at work :D.
The first week and then month pass in a blur. You start client work, and quickly learn that all your ideas about " making a difference" were just those- ideas. You learn the "art" of documentation, and the skill to extract information from the client without offending, the "Tests of Details" and "Test of Controls"... the list is endless. But, you learn, and soon gain confidence :). Meanwhile, you also start recognising faces, making friends, and slowly, you begin to enjoy office, instead of dreading it :). ( Again, I was lucky, because I met some amazing people :) :) ).
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