Work by Numbers…

I am not an accountant. I’ve performed accounting functions over the years, but I am not by trade nor practice an accountant. My new job has many accounting functions. I am picking up on doing what needs to be done but there are times when things just aren’t balancing or I pour over a statement again and again and it won’t come out right and I admit I get frustrated.

So… one of the things I need to do over the next few months is read up on accounting stuff and learn what I should be doing and how I should be doing it. It’s hard coming in at the end of a year and trying to make order of chaos when you don’t know what the person who created the chaos had in mind whilst they were doing it.

The boss wants to discuss year-end and how things will progress going forward. I have some ideas of how we can get some consistency and things/procedures that can be changed to make things easier for everyone. I know that it’s going to be VERY hard to sort things out/make sense of things for year-end and things are really just way more disorganized than I would like. I have a plan for this week and I know it will not go as smoothly as I would like because it never does but this whole working in the midst of chaos thing needs to get straightened out.

I also need to catch up on some things at home so I have time to get other things done. I had a four day weekend last weekend and accomplished NOTHING. UGH.

I figure I need to do something about upgrading my professional image a bit. Yes, where I work is casual but I feel like I should look a shade more professional (because the women who work at the other office on my floor all wear full makeup, heels and the latest fashions every day and it gives me a complex to have them being all judge-y when I walk into the ladies room).

It’s 8:45PM… can someone please tell me when I got old enough that 9PM seems “awfully late” to be up on a work night?

Tis the Season…

Guess what?

Starting on MONDAY I will no longer be a ‘temp’ where I am working. I will be a ‘regular’ employee.

I am SO excited!

So, what have I learned from all of this? That I am probably better off working at a small company than trying to be a good little sheep in a big corporation. That finding a job where there are people close to my own age seems to be a key to success. And I reaffirmed that I am indeed capable of learning new skills and being impressive AND I am capable of being LIKED. Trust me, after the job I had before this one, I was beginning to get a complex and wondered if I was just plain not likable.

I am hoping that now I will be able to actually write something worth reading about the Resume of Career Catastrophes. Maybe something marketable. Fear not, though… I am sure I will still have stories about people I interact with on the job.

Have a wonderful Holiday Season everyone!