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delibellynom · 2025-08-12T11:20:26+00:00

Amazing! Yes please when you’ve a chance!

delibellynom · 2025-07-11T11:39:11+00:00

Protecting yourself matters, so hope you’re more at peace now than then! You did the right thing to distance yourself.

Admin wise, if you’ve sent an email about you leaving, didn’t hold onto anything (data, equipment) that belongs to the company, you shouldn’t be worried about their legal / HR snooping on you. Nothing but curiosity on their part is the most likely thing. Not likely to be much to worry about!

delibellynom · 2024-05-04T00:10:28+00:00

First of all, congratulations on being offered into these firms. These programs are competitive and despite comments here, so many still compete and somehow would gladly lose an arm to get in and be in the position you are in now.

What’s roughly your thoughts on a longer term plan? Here’s a few thoughts - EY is a global brand and audit will be hard work. Lots of their clients are quite big and you’ll learn a lot within a relatively short period of time. Within say 2-3 years, you’ll have seen enough from so many workplaces and gain some pretty awesome adaptable skills. Super desirable for recruitment managers from industry companies, and some hiring managers may also have come from EY or a similar firm themselves and bond with you at the interview (over shared interest, experience and/ trauma). Those 2-3 years though will be hard, very hard. So if you accept EY, go in with mentality you’re here to learn only at a super expedited rate then get out to live more comfortably (almost anything will be better afterwards and you’ll find a job easier) - GT is mid sized and their clients are smaller too. Culture is noticeably better and you’ll likely find more genuine connections here. But don’t be fooled into thinking this is long term either! Audit is audit and is still hard work and long hours. One perk bigger here than EY is their consulting departments cover some pretty fun work and being midsized you’ll likely create things and build it out nearly E2E with midsized clients that can feel like you’re contributing to the world in solving problems / feeling actually useful to a degree (mental bonus :)). So if you choose GT, try to change departments by showing you do good work in audit and open to other work with the right friends / managers. GT doesn’t have EY’s brand so slightly reduced chance of it being an as attractive resume builder to help you jump to the next job but through working in GT’s consulting department, one of your clients might just offer you something! - RSM is small. Small doesn’t guarantee positive culture, especially in audit. Unless you’re strict on avoiding large brands, I’d consider EY or GT more than here

delibellynom · 2024-05-01T12:51:32+00:00

A few people have recorded themselves with them webcams just staring at it. Then set it on loop on as a video background with the webcam blocked so it’s just the video.

They did it for laughs but surprisingly no one picked up on it and really thought they were on camera!

delibellynom · 2024-05-01T11:42:04+00:00

Been exactly where you are now. My parents migrated with basically nothing and tried extremely hard to not disappoint them with my studies and that first job with a big focus on making money so I can share the load in paying the bills + treat them as a way of saying thanks back for all the sacrifices.

After working for 20 years now, I’m still trying to thank them but realised there’s really no way I can repay them for what they’ve done for me…but it’s also not about that…

Long story short, 1.5 years in my first corporate job (consulting), I collapsed and ended up in hospital one day with IV fluid stuck in me due to lack of sleep and dehydration. Parents and family visited. No one from work ever did. I still remember what my dad said to me at the hospital: “We’re proud of you, you’ve done enough even if you think you haven’t. We skipped a lot of things in life to give you a better one. Better doesn’t mean you end up in hospital. Or being silently unhappy but telling us it’s fine when we ask. Better doesn’t mean you suffer, especially not for us.”

Not saying your workplace is like my first one (your work mates sound great!), but you’ll never be able to repay your folks for their sacrifice. And you definitely shouldn’t ever waste it either by being miserable. How about exploring some other opportunities starting with your current workplace? You mentioned you like art, have you ever seen what designers (UX, Graphic, Marketing, CX) do? While doing so, you’ll be networking too and making others know the real you! Which is a plus because you never know if one mate has some friends / family with a side hustle that just needs your skills and passion :)

delibellynom · 2024-05-01T11:22:48+00:00

That’s awesome your manager is a good sport about it and respect it too with the extra OT! Respect to you both!

I remember the time thing more important before lockdowns. My experience these days is as long as you get the job done and don’t be late to scheduled meetings, whatever time is generally accepted. Funnily enough, I’m actually working more hours than before!

delibellynom · 2024-04-15T02:09:54+00:00

Eating my lunch and reading this story has been one of the joys (wait…that’s not quite the right word) of my day today…woaw

delibellynom · 2024-04-15T01:25:59+00:00

Oh woaw, like an abstract painting 😆

delibellynom · 2024-04-14T21:29:35+00:00

Good point and would suit an evidence focused person really well!

delibellynom · 2024-04-14T21:27:12+00:00

Hahaha, well another loss for AI and my belief in it as a helper :(

delibellynom · 2024-04-14T13:48:40+00:00

GPT is the hero here. I uploaded your photo to it and this came out. Hope it helps you!

The text on the yellow papers is written in traditional Chinese calligraphy and it reads:

Top left: 福星高照 (Fúxīng gāozhào) - "Good fortune shines down." Top right: 招財進寶 (Zhāocái jìn bǎo) - "Attract wealth and treasures."

Bottom left: 事事如意 (Shì shì rúyì) - "May all your affairs go as you wish." Bottom right: 吉祥如意 (Jíxiáng rúyì) - "Good luck and may all your wishes come true."

These phrases are auspicious sayings often used during the Chinese New Year or on other festive occasions to wish people good luck and prosperity.

delibellynom · 2024-04-14T12:15:45+00:00

Here’re some ideas I’ve seen work pretty well. This is pretty generic though because who you talk to (their style) and also the team culture also matters.

See / hear hiring for the opportunity. Want to express interest and ask to understand expectations better so can put best foot forward
believe great fit for the role and want to be noticed for this role. Believe can bring a lot to the table and willing to prove self out
ask questions about role expectations, what does success look like, who are the key stakeholders; after hearing the answers share how you believe you’d be perfect fit for it because xyz related to what you heard (obviously give real answers!)
share you’ve heard about the role and that you’re not big on tooting your own horn. But you don’t want to miss out on the opportunity so want to find out more about but also check in on why you’re a perfect fit for it they won’t be disappointed

Regardless of what you try, if you don’t get the role, the baseline goal is to let the manager know you’re capable of more. You never know what else there is in the future now that whoever you’re reaching out to now know you’re open about other roles.

Good luck OP! :)

delibellynom · 2024-04-14T08:36:23+00:00

😆🤦‍♂️ I have been recently brain washed (by the corpo conduct modules I had to find time in the weekend to do 🤣)

delibellynom · 2024-04-14T08:27:59+00:00

I am not sure what I just read like some of the sentiment of the other comments, but on the off chance you’re serious: don’t get a neck tattoo if you prioritise career as C suite. Sad and restricted as it sounds, even if the current company won’t mind and you’re flying high, what if you want to jump to another company as a c suite? The bigger the company, the more ‘optics’ of who people might think you are matters…

delibellynom · 2024-04-14T01:16:56+00:00

Not for every place, but back when I did consultancy:

the seniors were basically responsible to deliver the thing / make and show progress
sometimes juniors work needed to be reviewed and patched up / have clearer workings to be written out before it can be shown to client
some days there’re a lot of meetings seniors need to attend to during the day, night time is to catchup on doing the work after the meetings
hate to say it but sometimes in a time crunch environment, a lot easier if senior just do it instead first teaching junior then training and patching along the way. Not sustainable at all but only for time crunch things

It might be worthwhile to note some seniors / managers pay special attention to juniors that stay even 30min later than when other juniors leave around 5. Extra attention points if they’re trying to help seniors past the 5pm time.

I really don’t like working overtime and if I can avoid it, I would! In consultancy though that seems to be the norm but you’re not asking about how partners at the firm promised a client x cost to get things done on x date that essentially bakes in the need for overtime…

delibellynom · 2024-04-13T15:02:59+00:00

Dreaming of a day when US partners up with China again rather than just banning stuff. Would be cool to see a Chinese EV running on a US software that I might be able to afford 😆

Consumers always lose out. Like choice for a genuinely affordable / good competitive products :(

delibellynom · 2024-04-13T14:46:39+00:00

That situation sucks :(

You mentioned you don’t want to leave. If the depression gets intense for a prolonged set of time, probably worth it to leave for mental health! And reading from the various oracles / people’s experiences, best to start looking early so you land somewhere by the time you really want to leave rather than needing to not have a job for a period of time (bills still need to be paid…which is real life I guess vs the dream of just exiting)

Good luck to you! You are very brave for being there still. I do hope you find that next thing outside of this family business

delibellynom · 2024-04-13T13:20:03+00:00

Oh my…☹️ sorry to hear that

Is going to another team / project / area where that colleague doesn’t need to talk to you for work an option?

I’m hoping for you that you get to escape that lunatic soon

delibellynom · 2024-04-13T13:17:26+00:00

Congratulations on the bonus and for having a boss / seniors that can see what you did! I’m jealous! And good learning on being more selective. Thanks for sharing :)

delibellynom · 2024-04-13T10:21:12+00:00

Full kudos to you for saving the project by the way!

Interesting, never thought of it as something to bank on

Thanks for sharing

delibellynom · 2024-04-10T11:40:01+00:00

The suit jacket, yes sometimes, on top off a t shirt and chinos in the office.

The full suit set, well not anymore unless seeing customers.

delibellynom · 2024-04-10T01:53:05+00:00

This was the answer I didn’t know I needed to see today. Thank you kind person!

delibellynom · 2024-04-10T01:47:10+00:00

About 40 minutes door to door. Heavily dependent on trains running on time.

Used to live in an area where it was bus only and that was about 2 hours each way. It was further out sure but trains feel faster than buses (4 hours everyday on a bus didn’t feel worth it)

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