-: I really like the clients that I get to work for.
I mean everyone can kind of say,
"oh I love the people that I work with," and I mean,
hopefully you should find that in any job
that you work for otherwise you should leave.
(laughs) If you don't like the people
you work with and the people you work for.
But I really like the clients that we serve
because CLA serves, like I said, the smaller,
privately held companies and so we get to work with CFOs,
controllers, I'm talking with people that own
multi-million dollar companies, like they're my peer.
I really like that aspect of it because they look at me
as an advisor and so it makes me feel like
I have more power than just saying I'm an associate at CLA.
They really trust you and they take your advice
and they know that you're doing something
to positively impact their business.
I would say one of the biggest challenges is finding
the right balance of (laughs), this is kind of specific,
but we have chargeable budgets
and so you have to meet a certain chargeable budget
where you're charging client hours.
But then on the flip side, a partner of the firm will
come to you and say, "don't put too much time into my job
because we can only bill x amount for this client."
So a lot of it is time management,
making sure you're using your time wisely,
and you just really have to be conscious
of how you're spending your time.