Pros
The auditing itself. I do enjoy working with most of the clients, the majority of them truly want to learn from your services. The company car is a small perk.
Cons
Where to start? I have been with the company for six months and I know its already time to move on. I work 14 hour days every day. They say you have to work one weekend per month, I typically work a Saturday or Sunday at least three out of every four weeks. There is no such thing as work/life balance. NONE. I usually leave the house around 9am and do not get back home until 8-10pm. That is just the auditing and commuting. Once home at 8pm, I have to answer emails, take online exams, do expense reports, schedule audits, join conference calls. Every day feels like an exhausting uphill battle. You have to schedule your audits a month in advance on the calendar system. Then your Manager will go into your calendar and change what you have scheduled WITHOUT NOTIFYING YOU, sometimes the day of the audits. Can't tell you how many times I almost went to the wrong place for an audit because someone moved it without my knowledge. Micromanaged to the point where if I change something in my schedule due to traffic or a location closure that I receive a phone call within 20 minutes of the schedule change wanting to know the who/what/why of the change. If you don't fall into line with the other auditors across the nation (ie you're too lenient/too harsh) they tell you that you have to be "re-calibrated" (ie trained to think just like everyone else). The company has impossible standards and low pay. Hey, if I got paid for the work I do, I would be much happier. I can go somewhere else, make less money and be substantially happier than I am now.
