I passed my CFSA exam by IIA which I took in May. So now that I'm a Certified Financial Services Auditor, I should feel somewhat motivated with a new burst of enthusiasm and fervor for my professional career. But I'm not feeling anything. How?

Are all these post-grad courses and professional specialization courses really necessarily for survival these days? I've got my ACCA but I still dislike Financial Accounting, and would not want to consider a job scope based primarily on that. All the CMFAS Certs seem irrelevant and are of little practical use to my work right now. So why do people still go after more paper chase after they've supposedly graduated from their field of study?

It may be that it is in human nature to continually strive for something. In other words, homo sapiens are driven by greed. And it is this very insatiability that drives the progress of our civilization to greater heights, seemingly. The irony is, the more we try to simplify our lives by inventing countless conveniences, the more complicated and convoluted our existence becomes. Its like a spiralling twister, the more we get into it, the stronger the force and greater the resistive compelling power is required to stop it.

I am contemplating taking up a Masters in Risk Management costing €10,000 and will require one year study in France. I'll get exemptions for quite a few modules no doubt, but weighing the financial, social & professional impact of it all, is the investment really worth it? After all, I'm no longer a young eager teenager but an (old) mid-twenties working adult feeling jaded and haggard, possibly suffering for quarter-life crisis.

Alright, thats all for now. Going back to write my Management report.