I Have to Say It!

[queenoftheskies]

I have tried so hard to be good. I've tried really hard NOT to say it. I didn't want to say it. I wanted to be...good. I wanted not to complain.

I have to say it. I have to get it out of my system.

I HATE ACCOUNTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish I never had to work another accounting job a day in my life!!!!!!!!!!

I wish I could get a credential and go back to teaching.

I wish I could...

Do something else. I don't mind working. But...

I hate accounting. And, I hate working with most accounting type people.

There! I said it! It's out.

We now return to our regularly scheduled LJ!

Comments

[cicadabug.livejournal.com]

I don't know where in the world you are, but many colleges and universities not only have need for people with accounting skills, but also often offer reduced/free classes for employees. If you really are desperate to get out of accounting, and you have any such institutions of higher ed near you, that might be a worthwhile thing to look into.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

In regular office-type positions? Or in teaching-type positions?

That definitely sounds like something that would be promising.

[cicadabug.livejournal.com]

Here at the Univ. of Massachusetts, it's all full-time employees. Part of the regular benefits.

[irysangel.livejournal.com]

Preach it sister!

I'm in payroll, and we do light accounting, and I hate it too. I mean, it pays well, but jeesh. 5 cents off on someone's check and you think the world is going to end...

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

The stress in accounting is out of this world!!!

And, yes, you're right about payroll. I've recently been having to deal with the fact that the company I've been working for didn't pay employees for three weeks. Oh, boy...the nightmares that produced!

I'd just like to do something more...creative. Or worth while.

Money isn't everything in life...but I have to at least pretend that it is in order to support my family.

Sigh...

[cricketshay.livejournal.com]

This post makes me so glad I didn't finish my degree. I could have ended up like you hating my job. *hugs*

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Were you majoring in accounting?

[cricketshay.livejournal.com]

Yup. I was working on my third year. I wanted to get my CPA. At the time, working with numbers made sense. I eventually wanted to have my own business and more time to write. I dropped out of school when I met my second husband. He didn't like the time I spent studing. He was threatened by it. I thought one day I'd go back and finish, but now I'm not really interested in it. I loved Marketing, but Cost was kicking my bottom.
*hugs*

[darkfluidity.livejournal.com]

Stop wishing. Find out what it would take to get your teaching credentials, and do something about it. {wicked evil grin}

[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

I couldn't have said it better, even down to the grin :D

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

I so wish I could.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

I would soooo love to do that.

Sadly, right now, the problem is time and money. I have to have an accounting job in order to be able to support my family and pay for classes for the credential.

In order to take the classes, I have to NOT have a fulltime job, in order to do the classroom part.

Some day, though, I hope to be able to work it out.

[darkfluidity.livejournal.com]

You have a problem.

There is a solution.

I don't know the answer. But there's no guarantee of quick or easy or anything of that sort.

Perhaps taking vacation time to allow for a class or two. Or maybe one class per semester for six years, if that's what it takes.

There's a girl at my job, she's doing full time uni, and in addition to that she's working almost 30 hours a week--possibly more, since she does some work at home. Sure, she does't get out much, but she knows what she wants and how to get it.

How is always the hard part. I know what I want, I just don't know how to get it. I'm working on it.

I challenge you: work on figuring out how. "Some day," unfortunately, is either one thing or the other: today, or never at all.

{/lecture mode}

[dragovianknight.livejournal.com]

I hope she'll listen to you. Gods know she won't listen to me, 'cause, you know, I'm the little sister.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

But, you also know how busy and stressed and exhausted I've been and how it's been impossible, up to this point, to really work other things in.

[darkfluidity.livejournal.com]

(excuses...not reasons...just a side comment...)

[darkfluidity.livejournal.com]

Well, you're not supposed to listen to the little sister. It's one of the rules (one of those really high up there rules, too, like a subsection of paragraph 2 or something, either right before or right after the part about not listening to big sisters--all of which, of course, is the same for brothers, big or little).

I doubt she'll listen to me any more than she'll listen to you, anyhow. Firstly, I'm practically a total stranger. Secondly, there's only one person who can convince her to do what she needs to do--not me, not you, not anyone outside her own skin.

But, well, for reasons unknown (even to me), I try. I guess I just hate to see dreams squandered.