tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9222643.post4736428098813212499..comments2023-10-10T08:33:26.926-06:00Comments on Byzigenous Buddhapalian: It's been a monthPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06090720645937634051noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9222643.post-707430673756207632008-05-27T20:03:00.000-06:002008-05-27T20:03:00.000-06:00Crunching numbers, Tandaina. Working on really co...Crunching numbers, Tandaina. Working on really complex reconciliations. I don't consider it discreet or proper to say much about consulting work except in a generic sense. I spend my days poring over spreadsheets, searching among several different systems for answers, documenting what I find, tidying what I can.<BR/><BR/>About a quarter of a century ago I scored ENFJ on Myers-Briggs, the "holy horseshoe" of clergy types and teachers. One thing you never expect of ENFJs is accountancy but that is exactly what I have done for a good two decades of my life to earn a living, beginning as a temp and working my way up to management. All learned on the job. Which makes it hard to get jobs as I do not have an accounting degree or even 24 units of accounting. Just lots of experience and a good knowledge of how it all works. What allows it to work for me is that I like solving puzzles. Booking a month-end close is like solving a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle.<BR/><BR/>Unlike most of my coworkers in consulting, it is not my life and outside the work day I could not possibly care less about it. I hate talking shop. Now, when "shop" is theology or history or creativity or aesthetics, that is a different matter altogether.<BR/><BR/>I am also, actually, an ambivert. Sometimes I derive energy from being around people. More often I do not. When left to my own devices I live like a hermit. While working here I take a novel with me at lunch time and eat by myself. When work is over I come home; I do not go out. I love my peace and quiet.<BR/><BR/>You now know, dear Tandaina and other friends, more about what I do down here than my own family does.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06090720645937634051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9222643.post-26752882449764846192008-05-27T19:51:00.000-06:002008-05-27T19:51:00.000-06:00Well then, no more excuses. Start sharing those p...Well then, no more excuses. Start sharing those photos sir!<BR/><BR/>And those 11 hour tech days? Been there, oh are they long but the reward of even space to move your mouse is definitely worth it.<BR/><BR/>I must admit a burning curiosity about what exactly you folks are doing down there.Josephine-https://www.blogger.com/profile/12328106972076348785noreply@blogger.com