Off the Ledger
Your days as a college student are almost numbered. The working world is calling. As you get ready to embark on your career, you have to be thinking, “What am I going to do when I graduate?” “Is a job in public accounting right for me?”
Where do you want to go?
You have so many options. Big firm or small? How do you decide? Where can you go to get the real, honest look at a career in public accounting? What is it REALLY like to be an intern? What will my life be like as a staff accountant?
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At Porter Keadle Moore, LLP (PKM) we’re here to help. We’ve created this blog site just for you! To help you find answers to these and other questions about working in a public accounting firm. Real interns and brand new staff accountants chronicle their experiences with our firm. Read what they have to say. Ask questions, share your opinions and we’ll respond.
Creating Work/Life Balance
Christian Albarracin - Audit Staff
Are you struggling to maintain your career while having a personal life at the same time? It may help to draw out a plan to help you create that work/life balance that everyone is trying to achieve. In writing out your plan you may discover what it is that is causing you to be burnt out. Once you know the cause of the problem it will be much easier to fix it. Once you outline what you want out of your career and your personal life it will be that much easier to find balance. You will realize that you don’t have to sacrifice your personal life for a successful career.
Start out by figuring out what you want to accomplish in your career. This could be a broad outline of where you want to go in the next five to twenty years, or just what you want out of your current position. It could help to think about what skills you want to develop and what responsibilities you would like to have. The next step is to define what you want out of your personal life. This includes anything from hobbies, health and nutrition, or spending time with loved ones. This should include everything that is important to you. Now, to create a measure of how to determine if you are living up to your ideals create your definition of success. You should do this in terms of your career and your personal life, separately.
Now it’s time to create your plan. This is where you can plan for accomplishing something important in both your career and your personal life. Establishing a schedule for completing your goals is essential, as well as a contingency plan in case you need to switch a few things around. It is also important to let the people in your life know about your plans and work together to accomplish your goals.
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