I like mine. I'm an accountant for an insurance company.
I've only been here for a year, so there's still a lot for me to learn.
I was hired because they merged with a Dallas company and obviously needed staff to fill the shoes of the Dallas folks that didn't move with their job.
The merger transactions themselves take up a lot of my time due to us still using the old Dallas software/systems.
They're working on combining software packages into a brand new one, so that's just another process to deal with, but I don't mind that so much.
A lot of our transactions are automated, but sometimes certain contracts have little querks that can't be programmed, and thus I have to do a lot of manual journal entries to either correct the automated cessions or book an entire cession altogether.
I also do some account reconciliations, particularly a cash suspense account.
There are other tasks that those before me did, but I was never trained on, so we slowly learn the hard way after brokers call asking for stuff that "oops, I guess that's one of my duties huh?" So I gotta learn by sifting around through prior files and try for the life of me to figure out how to do a job I was never trained on. That's the part that sucks and is frustrating for me.
I KNOW that once I learn how to do things correctly though, I'll love doing it, just like I love doing my existing tasks.
The reinsurance aspect of insurance has been a difficult concept for me to learn. I didn't learn anything about insurance in college. My college courses were geared more toward public accounting, not private.
So that transition has been a bumpy one, but I'm still loving it.
I do miss not being able to do tax returns anymore, but I make up for that by helping my family out with their tax questions.
