I am international student to Tasmania in 2021 and have been working hard to get my permanent residency, which I’m nominated for and expect to receive in January 2026. I’m 30 now and working as an auditor, but I’m really unhappy in my job.
I’ve been with my company for two years. The first year was okay because auditing was new to me, and I was learning. But in my second year, I have to manage my own clients, which involves calling them and handling their accounts. I really dislike making phone calls (which my senior, manager and partner prefers me to do), and I struggle to understand clients’ backgrounds, which makes completing audits harder because of the language, sometime they just speaking too much information and I dont get it. I also feel stressed managing first-year graduates who question me a lot, and it makes me feel disrespected and less confident. Honestly, I just want to get the job done, but I know I need to engage more with clients to do it well.
On top of that, I’m studying for my CA qualification, which my company sponsors. I’ve completed four subjects, but I don’t understand much of what I’ve studied, and I’m not interested in it. I’ve been in accounting since I was 17, but now at 30, I realize it’s not what I enjoy. The problem is, I don’t know what I do enjoy or what else I could do. I feel like I should finish the CA since I’m so close—just one more year—but it’s making me more stressed and unhappy. I’m worried that at 30, I don’t have many chances to start over, and I don’t want to waste the effort I’ve put in.
I also feel very alone here. I don’t have close friends in Tasmania to talk to about these deep thoughts, and I feel like no one really understands me. Once I have made some real friend, they left and moved to other state for some reason, which makes me feel even more hard to makes friend as they come and go. I’m torn between quitting my job to find something that makes me happier and sticking it out for the CA and my PR.
