Carrie C. Susz, EA

I know, it’s an awful cliche. I have to say that now I’m learning a new office’s procedures, I’m realizing the major difference between an office where they want to challenge you to learn more and an office where they just want to save the time of having to correct your mistakes. I almost felt like I was being babied and that the work was easy where I worked before. I was right. Here, I have a chance to work on things that were saved for folks who had been there a couple of years. I’m learning new things–and that’s good. There isn’t the emphasis on be quick and just cranking out the work, it has to do with making me a better accountant.

This was my original gripe with the place that I interned at–I was insulated from the horrors of review notes–they didn’t want to try to train me to work there, they just wanted to have me complete the work and then if there were problems, they would fix it.

To a lesser degree, the place I was at right before this new place did the same thing–there was one person who did a TON of work and she was gunning for partner…so she was constantly busy–to the point where lower level accountants didn’t get as much. It didn’t give us a chance to shine and take on new things and it seems that’s what she wanted.

I truly believed she thought the addage “sleep when you’re dead” was true.