If you continue to work hard, success will follow
Alma Atta Ashipala is a senior assistant at Deloitte Namibia.
Monique Adams
The soft-spoken Ashipala was born and raised in Walvis Bay, where she attended Naraville Primary School and Swakopmund Secondary School.
The young aspiring professional was raised in a Christian home where she was the only girl among boys and had to take on a lot of responsibility at an early age.
“Growing up, I did all the cleaning and cooking and I believe till this day that being the only girl, and the firstborn for that matter, made me the hardworking, patient and loving person I am today,” she says.
She graduated with an honours degree in accounting from the University of Namibia and went on to study a postgraduate course in accounting sciences at the University of Johannesburg.
Her job description as a senior audit assistant entails performing audit work while assisting the junior audit assistants and also performing tasks and activities which will assist with her continuous professional development.
Ashipala says it is a very demanding career.
“The workload we encounter when we do our postgraduate diploma as well as during articles, the long working hours and tight audit deadlines. The expectations that come with being an audit trainee, for example, people expect you to be this smart person who knows a bit of everything,” she says.
Through all these challenges, prayer was the one thing, apart from a good support system, that kept her motivated. “When I was a little girl, I promised myself to be the best version of myself and to make my mother proud in each and everything I do,” she says.
But every cloud has a silver lining, and her greatest accomplishment so far is being part of the greatest professional services brand, Deloitte.
Working at Deloitte, her biggest rewards are gaining knowledge, experience and exposure within a short period.
Her day normally starts with reading emails, offering to make coffee or tea for a teammate, organising and attending meetings if requested by the manager, and then passionately auditing the day away.
In the next five years Ashipala sees herself passing her board exams, completing her audit articles and then finally realising her dream of becoming a chartered accountant.
It has been her lifelong dream to become a chartered accountant and passing the professional examination is mandatory in order to achieve that.
One thing she would tell her younger self is to be herself and that hard work has never killed anyone. If she had one thing that she could change in the world, it would be to fill the world with more love.
“My advice to anyone reading this article is to be yourself, stay true to who you are. I would further encourage people to take care of themselves, especially their mental and emotional health. Lastly, hard work has never killed anyone so take time to work on your dreams, even if it means going AWOL,” she says.
The soft-spoken Ashipala was born and raised in Walvis Bay, where she attended Naraville Primary School and Swakopmund Secondary School.
The young aspiring professional was raised in a Christian home where she was the only girl among boys and had to take on a lot of responsibility at an early age.
“Growing up, I did all the cleaning and cooking and I believe till this day that being the only girl, and the firstborn for that matter, made me the hardworking, patient and loving person I am today,” she says.
She graduated with an honours degree in accounting from the University of Namibia and went on to study a postgraduate course in accounting sciences at the University of Johannesburg.
Her job description as a senior audit assistant entails performing audit work while assisting the junior audit assistants and also performing tasks and activities which will assist with her continuous professional development.
Ashipala says it is a very demanding career.
“The workload we encounter when we do our postgraduate diploma as well as during articles, the long working hours and tight audit deadlines. The expectations that come with being an audit trainee, for example, people expect you to be this smart person who knows a bit of everything,” she says.
Through all these challenges, prayer was the one thing, apart from a good support system, that kept her motivated. “When I was a little girl, I promised myself to be the best version of myself and to make my mother proud in each and everything I do,” she says.
But every cloud has a silver lining, and her greatest accomplishment so far is being part of the greatest professional services brand, Deloitte.
Working at Deloitte, her biggest rewards are gaining knowledge, experience and exposure within a short period.
Her day normally starts with reading emails, offering to make coffee or tea for a teammate, organising and attending meetings if requested by the manager, and then passionately auditing the day away.
In the next five years Ashipala sees herself passing her board exams, completing her audit articles and then finally realising her dream of becoming a chartered accountant.
It has been her lifelong dream to become a chartered accountant and passing the professional examination is mandatory in order to achieve that.
One thing she would tell her younger self is to be herself and that hard work has never killed anyone. If she had one thing that she could change in the world, it would be to fill the world with more love.
“My advice to anyone reading this article is to be yourself, stay true to who you are. I would further encourage people to take care of themselves, especially their mental and emotional health. Lastly, hard work has never killed anyone so take time to work on your dreams, even if it means going AWOL,” she says.
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