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Right now I LOVE my job !!

Sitting here, eating lunch at listening again to sound file of THAT famous 87 IROC guy

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.

Umm ya im playin Forza right now and making more than prob 97% of the people on this forum....

Freakin' love it.

The Execs like me, the Directors I report in to adore my work, I set my own hours most of the time, I get to pick my clients (internal and external) to a degree, set my travel, month of vacation (more if I want but anything past 4 weeks is unpaid), damn good $$$, home office when I want, the challenges constantly change, I get to see a large variety of business segments (public and private), etc., etc.

It's a constant learning experience that's an absolute joy to take part in for the most part.

As long as I'm bringing in revenue and keeping customers happy, the company could care less what I do with my time. Sometimes this means maybe working 10 hours/week; others it means putting in 90+ hours/week. Disclipline rules, though; those 10 hr work-weeks usually have me digging up new prospects or feeling out companies to partner with.

HELL NO!

I install breathilizers on peoples cars who get 2 or more DUI's.

Tough job, the Forza and halo playing get really intense some days and i can't take it.

That would be them.. Atleast until my 4th degree is finished or I get a diff job(i have a interview tommarow with Northrup Grumman)

Nice, good luck on that interview! To keep on topic of this post, I love my job. My primary job responsibilites are; IT support for a staff just under 1000 users. Everything from PDA's, Blackberries, TRIO's to servers.