Tag

My friend Roy tagged me.

8 TV Shows I Watch:

1) House
2) Law & Order
3) Without a Trace
4) The Office
5) The Soup
6) SNL
7) More House
8) More Law & Order

I really only watch number one and number two (hence the reason for seven and eight).

8 Favorite Restaurants:

1) Wendy's (tastes better on Tuesday's at 11:00 am)
2) In & Out (good food)
3) Evvia (Greek)
4) Patxi's (Chicago Pizza)
5) Cucina Toscana (Italian)
6) Il Fornaio (Italian)
7) Cafe Rio
8) California Pizza Kitchen (BBQ Chicken is v. good)

8 Things that happened yesterday:

1) I woke up Orlando
2) I competed in a tax case study
3) I felt nauseous most of the day
4) I played a round of Pitch n' Putt
5) I ran between the hot tub and the pool
6) I ate a really good prime rib (while watching a boring football game)
7) I watched multiple episodes of The Office
8) I watched one really good episode of Law & Order

8 Things I’m looking forward to:

1) Thanksgiving
2) A great Cougar bball season
3) Passing my tax classes =D
4) Finishing my blasted PFP ("Perpetual Financial Plan" which is different than "Personal Financial Plan")
5) Graduating from BYU
6) Starting with Deloitte
7) Going on a vacation (see wish list)
8) Buying a "new" old computer (who really needs a new PC?)

8 Things on my wish list:

1) A new iPod touch
2) A new reading book
3) Time to read a normal book
4) Jazz tickets
5) Continuous low gas prices
6) All-expense-paid trip to Hawaii
7) A nephew
8) A strong economy with plenty of work (and no crazy tax law)

Since I loved being tagged so much, I tag:

Heather, Katie, Andrew, Eric

Verdict

I have completed my decision on my job offers--I will be working with Deloitte Tax LLP. I fedex'd the signed offer letter this morning and declined the other offers.

Something that help sway my decision was the mug slinging of one company. I have had repeated phone calls from one firm in the past 48 hours of how I would be, in effect, selling myself short if I went with the competition. Some of the comments included: "you will only do compliance work at [the competition]," "we can offer a wide array of work, much more than [the competition] can offer you," "[the competition] is sending all of the tax work overseas," and "many of the associates that I recruited when I worked at [the competition] didn't have any work to do." I should say thanks for the many phones calls--it was flattering to know that you wanted me to work for your company (or you didn't want me to go to [the competition]) but that made my decision that much easier.

I will say that the recruiter at one firm was rather nice (even though s/he was disappointed) to me even though I decline their offer. I had failed to draw her attention to the aforementioned phrases since I didn't want to come across as unprofessional.

It was quite a relief to send the offer letter to Deloitte this morning. Recruiting season is finally over after an exhausting two months of blissful courtship with the three firms--dinner, lunch, airplane trips, hotels, gifts, meetings, interviews, etc.

Tomorrow morning I will be catching a flight to Orlando for the Deloitte Tax Case Competition. We are all very excited for the competition (and DisneyWorld). We hopefully will bring much honor to BYU...

Where am I now?

I'm back in Utah for the moment, but here are my coming and goings:

Trip one: Salt Lake City -- my team competed in the Deloitte Challenge and we are going to Nationals in three weeks!!
Trip two: Rochester, NY -- my brother got married in the Palmyra Temple (very pretty area this time of the year). Went out to Niagara Falls and rode the Maid of the Mist Ferry into the Horseshoe Falls (pretty sweet waterfalls).
Trip three: San Jose, CA -- had an in-house interview with PwC and received a full-time offer.
Trip four: San Jose, CA -- had an in-house interview with EY and received a full-time offer.
Trip five: San Jose, CA -- will have an office visit with Deloitte.

All of the flying has meant that I have never really unpacked, I haven't been to the grocery store for a big shopping trip in weeks, I am never sure what time zone I am in, and I know how much time I need to make it to the airport with mere minutes to spare!!

The last few weeks have been super eventful, especially with my sister having her baby girl in the midst of the craziness (Congrats Katie and Jake--she's a pretty baby). It has been a successful past few weeks (I didn't fail my midterms!!) with 3 job offers, 1 new sister-in-law, 1 new niece (for a total of 4), and 1 upcoming National competition.

In other news, two of my co-workers were fired from WTAS (wootass) this past week. I was sad to hear that they were fired, but happy to hear that they were able to jump ship with 5 weeks of severance pay. Good riddens on that blasted LLC!! I'm glad that I woke up and I smelled the strange coffee that was brewing in that joint before school started.