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Leoyh in my experience thus far if I'm further out I simply leave earlier. I've never had anybody be anything but supportive in my endeavors of getting to university on time..
Mark for audit, which involves next to no bookkeeping, and (fund custodians aside) not too much photocopying, the majority of work is done at the client.
For financial services most clients will be in the CBD. You're only trecking out if you audit resources clients, industrial clients, etc.
If you're indifferent to the clients you'll be working on, then I'd recommend that people living closer to the city choose financial services and people living further out in the suburbs choose industrial clients. You'll be going home from the client office 3-4 days a week so their location relative to your home is more important than where your uni is.
Scashby, it is a lot of work relative to a full-time uni student. It's not necessarily a lot of work relative to say, a full-time uni student working 3 days a week part-time.
You need a work-hard play-hard mentality to cope well. Liking the white-collar bar scene helps this a lot.
In my experience I've felt that the 'extra effort' i've done at times has been offset by the amount of laid back days I've had with very little client work. Work is quite seasonal at the big4.
Not to mention countless days I've left work with a cheeky grin on my face thinking "wow it was great to get paid to _____ for a day" ..
I'm doing 3 subjects this semester and I've personally found it comfortable enough to enrol in 3 for next semester also.
That said many of my colleagues aren't coping as well.
I'm yet to feel more pressured than say, the HSC....
Edit: You should all be sure to attend the ICAA night, I know sydney's event is this week. ;-)
Mark for audit, which involves next to no bookkeeping, and (fund custodians aside) not too much photocopying, the majority of work is done at the client.
For financial services most clients will be in the CBD. You're only trecking out if you audit resources clients, industrial clients, etc.
If you're indifferent to the clients you'll be working on, then I'd recommend that people living closer to the city choose financial services and people living further out in the suburbs choose industrial clients. You'll be going home from the client office 3-4 days a week so their location relative to your home is more important than where your uni is.
Scashby, it is a lot of work relative to a full-time uni student. It's not necessarily a lot of work relative to say, a full-time uni student working 3 days a week part-time.
You need a work-hard play-hard mentality to cope well. Liking the white-collar bar scene helps this a lot.
In my experience I've felt that the 'extra effort' i've done at times has been offset by the amount of laid back days I've had with very little client work. Work is quite seasonal at the big4.
Not to mention countless days I've left work with a cheeky grin on my face thinking "wow it was great to get paid to _____ for a day" ..
I'm doing 3 subjects this semester and I've personally found it comfortable enough to enrol in 3 for next semester also.
That said many of my colleagues aren't coping as well.
I'm yet to feel more pressured than say, the HSC....
Edit: You should all be sure to attend the ICAA night, I know sydney's event is this week. ;-)
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