My first day at work started at 6:45am with the alarm ringing; I had only slept 3-4 hours because as a college student I was never accustomed to waking up this early. I hit the snooze button hoping I would gain some energy boost with the next 15 minutes.
However, it is my first day so the fear of accidentally sleeping through the alarm frightened me enough to get out of bed soon before my snooze alarm went off. I get into work by 9am and after a relatively easy day (involving basic orientation routines), I hope back on the train and am home a little before 7pm.
Finally, around 8pm, after wasting time on the computer and chit chatting with some friends at Starbucks, I start up my Becker program in hopes of finish up the rest of F4. The entire 3 hours I was there, my body was awake because of the 2 cups of coffee I had consumed throughout the day, yet my brain was dead. I couldn't process anything and even had trouble reading the questions.
This is only my first day at work -_-. It's now 11:30pm and I have to be up by 6:30am to do it all over again.
I don't know how you guys do it -- the people with 3 kids, a fulltime job, and yet seem to still find the time AND mental capacity to study after a long day. Do these long days get easier in time? I sure hope so, otherwise I think my chances at passing the CPA are little to none.
*Embarrassing moment of the day: during lunch at the Chinese restaurant, I return to our table and a lady at another table stops me and asks, "excuse me, can we get some more soy sauce please?" I said, "uh..sorry I don't work here". She laughed and I sat back down. She didn't even apologize )=. Lesson learned: don't wear a white collared shirt with dark slacks if you're going to be dining at a Chinese restaurant.
AUD - May 2012
REG - TBD 2012
BEC - TBD 2012
Becker 2011+2012; NINJA 2011 review notes
