Last time I wrote about this move to Auckland I was jobless and still a couple of months out from the move.
I think I will break down my ‘move to Auckland’ posts into two, one for work and one for ‘personal’ feelings and reflections as the work one alone will be relatively long and a lot for me to get my head around.
I have now had a week off work and been in Auckland working for a couple of weeks (yep, got one of those jobs I was waiting to hear back on during the time I wrote my last post). I wasn’t really sure what to expect with the move up here to be honest. Workwise my prior job was all I’d ever know, I’d been there for 8.5years when I left and was able to do any job I was given fairly easily. We were always busy which worked well for me as I’m not the best when I don’t have a lot of work to do. I procrastinate something ridiculous, until I know there are a few meaty jobs lined up for me.
I always thought it would be cool to work for a bigger firm at some stage and now I’ve got something about three times the size of what I was at. The people are nice enough, the work so far is pretty straight forward, yet I have this sense of being bored shitless half the time.
It might be something to do with the fact that I have no idea what I’m doing half the time as I’ve had no real training as to how they do anything here, and the one job I’ve fully completed I have yet to have the review notes back so I have no idea how I went. The actual work was simple, a type of job I’ve done numerous times before, however the planning and how they document stuff is completely different.
I’m not really sure if this ‘boredness’ is just due to change that is all foreign to me or that it’s time for a proper change of direction in what I want to do in life. I studied accounting as I’d randomly decided to do that as a child and once I make up my mind I tend to stick to stuff so completed the degree and post grad and PAS/PCE and became Chartered, the move to Audit was because they needed someone in that role and I hated accounting at the time so it seemed fitting. I Stuck with audit because I was good at it and it was easy to me, it has become second nature and on one hand I’m not sure how I could do anything else, but on the other hand It’s not something I’m passionate about.
I think I’ve hit the ‘what now!?’ phase that I was expecting to hit as soon as I finished studying, all that time and effort and now it’s kind of like, what did I do all that for?
For now I’m going to give it a few months where I am and see how I feel after that and then re-evaluate. I’ve been wanting to do a Personal Training Cert for a while now so maybe that’s something I could look into while I try and workout exactly where I want to be in 5-10 years time.
I guess this post is just me trying to work through it all and see what my next move is. Thanks life for throwing a curveball 😉