Virtually Paul

My Career Moves

January 26, 2007 on 11:58 am | In Bible College, The Life of Paul |

For those who don’t know, I’ve been working in IT support alongside by Business Information Systems degree, since the end of my first year of uni. I work for a wonderful company that I’m deliberately choosing not to name. I will tell you that it’s an accounting firm and that in this accounting firm I have met a group of people who are not only highly professional but have also been a huge encouragement to me personally over the learning curve that has been my life over the last four years.

It all came to a fork in the road when my Dad introduced me to a Project Manager who is overseeing a construction project for the same company that Dad works for. The guy offered me a job… and an incredibly well paid job at that, doing admin in the office for the construction project. The only catch was the 10 hour work days and 7am starts. Needless to say, I liked that idea about as much as a fat kid likes exercise, although the actual work would probably have been an interesting challenge in a different industry.

Unfortunately for my Dad, who did a fair bit of nagging to try to get me to take the job, my current fantastic workplace made me what I consider to be a better offer. I’ll be winding up my role in IT there over the next few weeks, with a view to joining their audit division as a graduate, part time this year, while picking up a Graduate Certificate in Accounting to cover some of the skill gaps.

The decision wasn’t an easy one. I’d planned, with 4/8 subjects completed for my Grad Dip B&M, to finish that course full-time in second semester this year. But that wasn’t going to be an option if I took the job, so I was faced with the difficult decision of shelving those plans. I haven’t completely dismissed the theological study though. The firm is so fantastic that they’re even probably going to let me work 3 days a week, to give me time to complete another subject towards my bible college course at Ridley along with the part-time accounting study.

I’m pretty excited about it all and really looking forward to the challenges that the new role will bring.