My advice to anybody in audit is the same that I give to anybody doing any sort of job.

My advice to anybody in audit is the same that I give to anybody doing any sort of job. And it's honestly the only reason I can say that I got value out of audit, which is in my opinion, otherwise a completely worthless set of experiences, which is to understand why you do what you do. Way too many people will do a job just basically on autopilot, following instructions with the least amount of cognitive involvement that they possibly can get away with, and it's doing a disservice to themselves. Not only does it mean that they're generally going to be doing the job not particularly well, which means you're less likely to be promoted or get recognized for any sort of good work, and forget the whole thing about, well, you don't even get recognized anyway. Okay, sure. But the far more important aspect is that you limit how much of the actual knowledge and learning that you can extract from the job. Most jobs need to be giving you two things: money and learning. And the only reason that I managed to get any sort of actual value out of audit, which wasn't a lot of value, is because I actually took the time to understand why I did every single procedure, how it actually affected the company, what we were actually figuring out. And so I was a lot more advanced than most of my peers because when I did a first-time audit, I actually understood how to go about doing things. And there are very few lessons from my time in audit that I've taken into the rest of my career, but the ones that I have taken are specifically because I was very thoughtful about why am I doing this?