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So I now officially have two jobs. Or maybe a job and a half.

I’ll be working the regular 40 hours/week at the first job, and then clocking in to the other company to work however long it takes to do what needs doing for them. The lady I’m replacing was expected to work part-time, so I’m going on the assumption that I’ll be working less than ten hours a week. Once, that is, I get everything set up and working smoothly.

I’m just a tad overwhelmed right now. The other company was chugging along for all of January with none of the bookkeeping getting done, so I’m playing catch-up here. While learning how their processes work, while setting up the various merchant accounts and Quickbooks files and bank logins, while organizing all the files and paperwork and contracts. I’m being trained by the lady who used to take care of the invoicing, and she has an enormous amount of information about it in her head. She tried to organize it all in some notes for me, but every time she comes over to show me things, we wind up with a giant information dump where we’re doing A, and oh that’s right this also involves Y and you have to add 1,2, and 3 and these guys want theirs formatted in an Excel spreadsheet like so.

I’m about equally divided between excitement at all my new responsibilities and duties, and terror that I’m going to overlook something or fuck something up.

This morning I was hobbling worse than ever, and couldn’t even straighten up. I managed to get an appointment with my excellent chiropractor this afternoon, though. He said I’ve sprained my something-something ligament, one of the ones in my hip, and he manipulated and adjusted and I feel much better. I can stand up straight now, and rather than a constant stabbing pain throughout my lower back, I now have a constant throbbing just over my left hipbone.

The Boss decided he didn’t feel confident with the lady he had hired to keep the books for his new company, so now he’s put me in charge of the A/R and billing and one of our payroll girls is doing their payroll. Monday and Tuesday I was sitting in while the other lady got training, but today she was gone and I was getting the training. Around two o’clock we checked in with The Boss, and he was tickled to hear I was picking it up quickly. I’ll do my best not to disappoint.

So now I’m doing my job, learning to do the new job, and helping to train our newest employee in some of my current duties so she can pick up some of the work I do while I’m over there working on the other company. It’s a little bit hectic this week.