I had an interview and it was boring honestly. They talked the whole time and didn't even ask me questions. But meh, at least it's something to bring income in. They surprised me when they told me they have “interview exercises” for me to do that they would be sending to my email.
I get an email with 2 exercises to do, and was told that I should do them in about two hours and leave extensive notes as to my judgment and decision making (Excel files). I'm in accounting so that means they wanted to see me manipulate numbers across several documents and make all of these calculations.
I did the first one, looked at the second one, and said hell no. It's just so much work for something that is a MAYBE. I felt like I was back in school doing hours-long homework. Nah, it would take more than 2 hours for me, for sure. 2 hours for somebody who knows what they're doing, but not for an entry level position. I just couldn't mentally deal, plus everything looked so boring. Maybe it was so boring which is a sign that I need to skip my plans of getting a CPA license and get the hell out of accounting altogether. I was bored all throughout school and have been bored in my two internships and was bored doing this assignment. I put so much effort into this degree which I appreciate but I'm sad that I didn't choose something else.
Anyways, sorry for rambling, but I just emailed the lady back and told her I'm not doing it at all. I didn't even submit the part that I did complete. I was and am totally apathetic to doing assessments for free, although I understand they wanna see skills (FOR ENTRY LEVEL) and have realized I absolutely hate accounting.
I just don't wanna be broke and starve anymore, so I am going to have a big issue managing life in the next few upcoming months/years.