Internship Experience Essay

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INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE Hunting for internship was very hard. It was very time-consuming and very tiring. I’ve applied to a lot of companies and firms. I was interviewed thrice and was accepted twice but between the two firms that I was accepted, I chose Valdes, Abad & Associates firm because I thought that this firm would expose me more to audit related works rather than the other firm. Honestly speaking, I never thought that I would end up doing my training in VAA. The firm was actually my last choice among hundreds of companies that I’ve applied. Can you blame me? I was expecting more, but I never thought that the “more” that I was looking for was already there. Internship was something I never thought to be this life-changing. I never thought it could be this “real.” First, I thought it’s just about doing this, doing that, just things that could be easily done without much of an effort, but those thoughts disappeared the moment I began my training. I’m from Valenzuela City and traveling all the way to Makati City is a great challenge especially for a dependent person like me. As much as possible I don’t take public transportations, I was living the life of a “hatid-sundo” person. I was really scared commuting from home to Makati City alone. Thanks to Sara Bareilles’ song “Brave” for giving me courage to travel the long roads by myself. First few days were like hell, travelling alone to such far place was really scary but during the training, I eventually fell in love with it. Another serious thing was that I’m not a morning person but the training made me to be “that” person. VAA made me responsible. VAA polished me to become an independent person. VAA made me better. The office of Valdes, Abad & Associates is really small but it has a big family. Though short in space it was practically fine. Well, auditors stay most of the time on their fieldworks and
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