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Work is getting rather mundane. Almost every working day i wake up hearing the inner me screaming for a change - leading to the first few mutterings my husby hears in the morning " I don't want to work today.. i feel so sleepy." Now that i am more awake than that... i can dare say feeling sleepy is just an excuse. I just don't want to face the boring old ERAPs. It's getting at me.. OK fine.. so i should go for it and try to make some changes right? Oh but no!! my practical side hurls the thought away by listing the many reasons why it should stay just the way it is.. BOO! To think that something as complex as this runs through me head every morning (except for the weekend) makes me feel like a partially pre-programmed lump of flesh. Thank god that it is only from 8am - 6 pm. Then i resume to living for real.

To be a pure full fledged accountant, one has to be accustomed to repetitive, boring, no life kind of commitment. Accounts as a subject has always been fun. Work? ah ah! no ways.. At work, you tend to be in charge of something in particular. Like a new toy, at the beginning its all so amusing. It challenges you to get used to it. You struggle.. then make things work out for you. Viola! You've reached a stable point.. then wat happens? ah.. see, when you are on a down right low level in the career ladder... nothing happens.. your ICs are happy with you and they leave that work for you to handle now that you've mastered it...

For an instance .. me..
I work for the best Accounting co. right after the Big four... oh wow! then since i work for the outsourcing department i get to be posted to VISA International ... Oh wow wee!! But not for long my friend... or at least that was wat my former TL (team leader) advised when i told her that i found the job exciting. It was exciting cos i was going to learn two new systems namely ORACLE and ARIBA. Thankfully things came one step at a time. (although at every additional step, it required a wee bit of extra effort and planning before accomplishment). Basically my job now is all about employee cash claims (e.g. airfare, hotel, transport, OT allowances, mobile etc.). This job requires look outs for uncountable details. Those who know me will be probably laughing... cos details and remembering them is so off for me.. but ya i managed to work it out with practice (it actually helped me out personally too). Everyday i receive on the acerage of about 20 reports. The rate varies somewhat like a parabola curve throughout a month. Each report either consists of a travel, usual monthly expense or some really problematic back log that my current TL pulled out. I scrutinize and either approve or escalate for exceptional approval.

I spend 3 years long in a poly... where i learnt a wide range of biz, acctng n finance skills... I know full set accounts .. we did internal control... we did company law... we did economics... we did consol accounts... we did so many other topics... and i am considered only qualified enough to process employee expense claims?! what a waste ?!! My mom could get this done... an A lvl commerce holder can do what i do... why even a sec 4 POA o' lvl holder can handle it.. why? i dont have experience? i don't even want to mention the pay... i didn't flunk the papers... i PASSED! - which jolly well means that i have satisfactory knowledge of the syllabus covered during my poly years... Why are bigger co.s hesitating to entrust more responsibilities on us poly grads. And i do not tolerate the thought of poly being of 2nd tier to JC grads. More often than not, JC kids are so all about books that they turn out to be so much like frogs in the well... yes glory for them as they get to enter prestigious unis here... but the all rounded syllabus covered during the three years in poly is of more value to MNCs... education not solely for pride.. it is to serve as a foundation to career and other achievements out here in the working world...

Here i am doing a job an O leveler can handle by the day and doing a degree by the night.. pursuing my passion in the tiny cracks of free time... pft! I cant change anything.. i need something easy and yes easy can be boring ... BUT! i can't afford to loose the time by repeating my semesters... neither can i stay at home doing nothing (or close to nothing) ... I'll run down right lunatic.. It's the age... or so i think..you see, It's now or never...

Maybe accountancy is not meant for me... finance perhaps? haiz... CFA... 4 yrs... or teach?!! humphz.. a year in NIE and not to mention a good degree to get you in..Music? for that, there is the question as to am i actually good enough? see, everything has so many Qs... nothing concrete.. annoyance always fills me whenever i think about any of these. I have simply succumbed to going with the flow.. only for now. I don't think it'll be wise to let things happen for me since my adaptability is rather low.

I still have a long long way to go before i get totally satisfied with the way i lead my life... but i am a very happy gal... see, nth surpasses the joy of having a pair of comforting arms cuddling you at the end of the day... that in itself is suffice to keep me going...

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