Busy.
Welcome to busy season. I leave the house tired and I come home late tired. I apologize for the lack of updates, but I honestly don’t want to be near my computer when I turn it off when I leave the clients. Plus, I have a lot of things to do when I get home, due to the fact that my mother is playing in California for a week and a half. So…work….it’s getting better all the time. Today is the beginning of week 6 and I am learning like no other…and now because I have been doing these things over and over, people are beginning to ask ME how to do these tasks, or if there is an easier or quicker way to do the tasks that they do on a normal basis. I know that I have a lot to learn and that it will be forever before I learn it all…this I am coming to realize slowly…but I’ve never been a fan of time. People at work are great. I am finally beginning to break into the psyche of the average auditor. I am edging my way into the group and I learning things about people that I really didn’t NEED to know! :) Also, I found out that one of the guys, who I thought was taken…is not. :) We shall see.
So, I apologize for the negative outlook over the past few weeks. I just get tired of being the new young kid, and the names that follow, like newbie, kiddo, young lady, missy, new kid…you get the idea. But I understand that this is a “right of passage” and that it will happen to the next individual that walks through those big glass doors. So I will take it like a good player and play on.
So Game on Boys,
Melinda
Today was a good day.
Yes, you are reading that correctly…I’m being positive about my job. Today I went out to a client’s office that was a whole 15 minutes away from my house, and I had to be there at 8:30…so that equates to no/reduced traffic and an extra hour of sleep!!! It was nice….the actual work sucked because I’m still lost in what to do, but when we packed up at 5:45 and I was home at 6:15, I was happy again…I have almost finished a load of laundry, eaten dinner, and I’m finishing up this post and it’s not even 8 yet!!! :) I could get used to this. Plus I’m not as tired…two hours of driving can really take it out of you…I may not go workout tonight…but I could. So there…two posts in a week.
So back to real life…my sister, brother-in-law, and nephew came down and we got to spend some time together…it was nice. I was glad to see them, but sad that it was only for about 30 hours. We went to a high school musical Saturday after work, then to Bennigan’s, and on Sunday we went shopping. It was nice.
So that was my weekend and my day. Okay…talk to you laters,
Hope your day was as reassuring as mine,
Melinda
Mi trabajo
So this will be the beginning of the 4th week at work….the office life is different. I’m over with all of my fellow auditors on half of the suite and we are all super quiet geeks. For the majority of the time there are only 3 to 4 of us in the office on any given weekday, and we are all there on Saturday. Of the 10 audit staffers, I only know of only one semi-single guy. He’s nice, but he is kind-of dating this one girl that he complains about. Over on the tax side there are a few single guys…but really…tax people are just bigger dorks than us auditors! :) So no real prospects at work.
We are on the 11th floor of the Chase building, so our office is really nice. We are in the Post Oak area/Galleria area, so I could really enjoy living there. The people are really nice and forgiving for my incompetence. I have been out to 3 clients and I’m going to my 4th tomorrow morning. I am tired of the drive and I’m trying to find things to keep in interested in my job. How sad am I. I thought that I liked audit and forensic accounting, but right now I’m not.
I’m learning, and my teachers are not as helpful as they could be. Busy season is coming upon us and I fear that my already long days will become even longer. Auditing out in real life is nothing like classroom auditing. There needs to be a change in presentation. The majority of my learning curve relates to the software…but I understand the software now…it the rest of the stuff…you know the auditing work that I don’t understand. When I sit in my managers’ offices they talk and I listen like I should….but it feels like I’m back in my high school Spanish class…I can pick out certain words and then I have to go back and put the words together to completely grasp the full idea. For example, when looking at cash there are certain test that must be performed. This I understand, but then they start to go off on certain processes and procedures and my brain turns off. Plus there are certain words that I cannot use, one in particular is “correct”. I use “fairly”. Odd but it makes sense. I pray that it gets better and that I pick up on more as the weeks progress, but I’m tired. My Monday thru Saturday consists of audit, but SUNDAY is all God’s and mine…so that is work thus far. I’m sorry that I haven’t really posted more, but I leave the house at 6:30 and don’t get back until after 8, so I don’t really have time to blog…but hopefully as the weeks progress and I get into a better schedule of things, I can add it to the routine. I don’t post at work because I can’t be paid for posting…so for now we have Sunday postings and we can squeeze more in when I have a better feeling of my surroundings. So I hope that you have a great week and I will talk with you soon again.
Until then,
Melinda
