I Love My Job

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Jun 292010
 

Granted, at this point I’d probably love any job. But I suspect I’ll still like this one a year from now.

I went in today to get a little training—the contractor they’ve got doing the books is going on vacation tomorrow, so they wanted to introduce me to the system before she leaves. When she gets back she’ll stay another two weeks, holding my hand and getting me up to speed on how everything works. Then it’s all me. I’ll have an actual office and everything.

There were only a few of us working in the church offices today, and a few other ladies running the church preschool. Apparently this is common during the summer, but winter will probably be busier.

After an overview of their processes we did a bank deposit. Then I got to reconcile the bank account, did a little filing, and helped get the newsletter ready for mailing. They might also let me help out with the church web page. Basically all the geeky stuff I like to do in my spare time anyway (well, except the filing).

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Gainfully Employed

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Jun 282010
 

Last Wednesday I interviewed for a part-time job with a large local church.

They called me Thursday afternoon to see if I was still interested. Pending a satisfactory background check, the job was mine.

Over the weekend I’ve been getting reports from my friends, who I listed as personal references, that the church had called. You know, if corporations were half this conscientious in their hiring practices, there would be a lot less trouble in the business world.

This morning they called back to let me know I’ve definitely got the job. The lady I’ll be reporting to will call later this week to work out exactly when I’m going to start.

Woo hoo! I has a job!

Jun 232010
 

Had another job interview yesterday, for a part-time position at a large church. It was by far the most thorough interview I’ve experienced so far; they asked questions about practical applications of accounting, software, security, and so forth. I think I answered them all satisfactorily.

At one point they gave me a set of mocked-up financial statements and asked me some questions about them. My first (unsolicited) observation was that their balance sheet didn’t balance. It seemed to please them that I noticed that right away.

They asked me to identify the net income—an easy enough task when you have an income statement, with “Net Income” in bold at the bottom. I qualified my answer with, “. . . although since the balance sheet isn’t balanced, I would really want to double-check this number.”

Seriously, it really bugged me. I wanted to sit down and go through their balance sheet and figure out why it was off.

A part-time job would be almost ideal, because it would enable me to continue going to class, helping out at the homeless shelter, and helping out with Alpha Geek’s business. The only drawback would be the lack of benefits. Our COBRA expires at the end of July, and we need to figure out what the hell we’re going to do about insurance. I can’t help but envy all these people with employer- or government-paid insurance plans who have the luxury of bitching about health care reform.

Bear