The full scoop
I spoke with my bosses today... they've offered to keep me on half-time, and I'll be working with our sister company helping get them set up in Quickbooks (up until now they've been using Excel for EVERYTHING). I've never set up a company from scratch in Quickbooks, but since I'm experienced with both Quickbooks and Excel, it should be plenty doable. I've committed to stay at least until the system is set up and a process is in place to use it... then I can either stay if I want or hand the thing off to somebody else. I'm thinking I'd really like to hand it off, as bookkeeping is not so much my thing. Well, it is my thing in that I'm massively good and efficient at it, but not so much my thing in that it sucks the life out of me. Little stuff. Since it's half time I can set my own hours and telecommute as much as I want, but I'll probably come in one day per week when I'm in Seattle anyway for my "other" job (which, fortunately, isn't now my "only" job).
The other big news which I didn't want to go into the other day, is that we have a signed offer to sell our condo. Full price, escalator clause, inspection waiver, the whole shebang. We close on May 29th, so we'll be moving memorial day weekend. Which means we need to find a place to move. In 2 weeks. Have a bunch of places lined up to view this weekend in the Federal Way/Des Moines areas.
I'm not afraid of the money thing. What I am afraid of is getting sucked back into a job in accounting. I feel like I was just starting to wake up my dormant creative juices, and now I have to put them back to sleep. Maybe I should devote the other half of my time to rediscovering the things I used to love, like drawing, singing, and creative writing. I don't remember the last time I painted anything just for the fun of it.
Then again, I also grew up believing that I was going to do big, incredible things with my life; that somehow or other I'd help to change the world for the better. Maybe it's time I let myself be ambitious again. I know I'm plenty smart, sociable, and have the drive to accomplish things when I set my mind to it. I just need to figure out what to set my mind to.
In the meantime, where's my sketchpad?
The other big news which I didn't want to go into the other day, is that we have a signed offer to sell our condo. Full price, escalator clause, inspection waiver, the whole shebang. We close on May 29th, so we'll be moving memorial day weekend. Which means we need to find a place to move. In 2 weeks. Have a bunch of places lined up to view this weekend in the Federal Way/Des Moines areas.
I'm not afraid of the money thing. What I am afraid of is getting sucked back into a job in accounting. I feel like I was just starting to wake up my dormant creative juices, and now I have to put them back to sleep. Maybe I should devote the other half of my time to rediscovering the things I used to love, like drawing, singing, and creative writing. I don't remember the last time I painted anything just for the fun of it.
Then again, I also grew up believing that I was going to do big, incredible things with my life; that somehow or other I'd help to change the world for the better. Maybe it's time I let myself be ambitious again. I know I'm plenty smart, sociable, and have the drive to accomplish things when I set my mind to it. I just need to figure out what to set my mind to.
In the meantime, where's my sketchpad?