Could you suggest a smooth way of dealing with my workaholic managers who expect me to work as much?
Can't say I've never expected people to work hard. Ask yourself, if you were your manager, is your work adequate? Your manager has to answer to the partners if her review isn't adequate, which is never good. Now, if your manager is truly being unreasonable, then there are ways to deal with it. Tell him or her in a humorous way that they're expecting too much, so as not to be too direct. If you want brownie points, work just as hard as them to a point where they truly appreciate your work, then they'll be okay with you not working as much once in a while. Or work efficiently to make sure you achieve what they want you to achieve. Or convince the manager that you have other important clients and so you need to balance your workload.
Try a combination of these...it'll most likely help. Now, if you're just average and it's more like your manager's expectations are that you do your best, and you don't, then it's on you.
Can't say I've never expected people to work hard. Ask yourself, if you were your manager, is your work adequate? Your manager has to answer to the partners if her review isn't adequate, which is never good. Now, if your manager is truly being unreasonable, then there are ways to deal with it. Tell him or her in a humorous way that they're expecting too much, so as not to be too direct. If you want brownie points, work just as hard as them to a point where they truly appreciate your work, then they'll be okay with you not working as much once in a while. Or work efficiently to make sure you achieve what they want you to achieve. Or convince the manager that you have other important clients and so you need to balance your workload.
Try a combination of these...it'll most likely help. Now, if you're just average and it's more like your manager's expectations are that you do your best, and you don't, then it's on you.
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How important are they in determining whether you get an internship and a contract at graduation? Also how well are you expected to do in those tests?
I am also in the big 4 and I can empathize with many of your ups and downs over the years. Glad to see you have made it for so long with your firm.
Thanks so much for writing the blog. I know several colleagues who have read it and been helped by it! Keep up the good blog work.
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thank you so much for this.
Reading it - it's great.
Great to see how you evolved during this time you're blogging here.
How was this blog personaly for you - why are you doing this?
The second type of workaholic applies to those people who aren't necessarily high performers, but who happen to get a sense of comfort for being in the work place. Unfortunately these people are a whole different breed who have successfully moved along the ranks...thanks to father time. As for these, I have no advice/comment as I tend to have a tough time dealing with them and don't want to be a hypocrite.
I have a quick question. I don't know if you've had experience with this, but I have received an offer from a Big 4 accounting firm for an internship, but I haven't yet interviewed with my ideal company.
I don't want to reject the offer for fear of not getting hired by my ideal company, but I don't want to accept the offer and cut myself off just because they recruited earlier.
Any help would be appreciated and my feelings won't be hurt if you don't answer.
What kind of tests are you talking about?
I'm going to save this for my last blog post, when I leave.
See http://lifeofanauditor.blogspot.com/2007/11/which-firm-to-choose-from.html
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