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A Career Experience : My Careers And Experience

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Careers and experiences
Success, failures, experiences, trials, and tribulations usually shape up the life and career of a person. I am no exception to this idea. My experiences have taught me lessons. My mistakes have helped me to grow. My successes have humbled me. My fear of the unknown has helped me face life.
I hail from a city called Chennai from the South of India and I grew up in a family rich in traditions and orthodoxy. An age long tradition in India dictates children to decide on a career path as early as sixth grade. Especially in a family of educated people like the one I was brought up in, children are encouraged to think about what they want to become ever since they are toddlers trying to learn the alphabets. Furthermore, it is also customary for elders to ask young children if they are going to follow the footsteps of their father or their mother. In my case, I could not respond saying I wanted to be my own person, travel the world and become a princess. That would have been considered insulting. Therefore, I chose to follow my father’s career- Chartered Accountancy.
Based on my choice, I was put on that career path and took relevant classes from 11th grade. Once I graduated from high school, I immediately enrolled in Chartered Accountancy courses. In order to fulfill an internship requirement, I worked for my father as an Accountancy intern. I dedicatedly explored the field of accounting and tried to learn from my father.
Despite finding numbers and accounts interesting, I realized that I was not passionate about it; it was just not meant for me. Furthermore, my parents were aware of my dislike towards accounting. After days of futile talking and counseling, my father made one last effort to change my mind. He gave me the task of assisting him in conducting the audit of one of his clients. He believed that by giving me more responsibility in the audit of an interesting company, he would succeed in convincing me to continue accounting. Little did he know that his efforts would be in vain.
That audit was of an event management company called M/s Beep Experience Pvt. This company organized various events such as music concerts, weddings, and even corporate meetings. It was during that audit

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