Highlights Of My Work! - When I close my eyes, it's such a sweet dream
So for those of you that don't know, I started my internship as a tax preparer on January 10th... Well, 11th because South Carolina freaking snowed and everything closed! Intense first day of work, I tell ya :D
Every day I encounter different people. Some of them are really interesting, like the guy named Adam. Just Adam. That was his entire name. I got in contact with him and turns out he's a hippie! He legally doesn't have a last name. How cool is that :D?
Today, marked the first of two other encounters. I did my first tax return where the wife earned more than the husband! In my head I was doing a "you go girl!" dance, haha.
The other encounter wasn't such a good one. The taxpayer's wife passed away in 2009, so while the taxpayer filed MFJ for his 2009 tax return, he has to file as a single taxpayer for the tax year 2010... Which meant I had to delete all evidence of his wife in the tax program we use. It really had an effect on me... He knew that's what we had to do, and he went ahead and wrote a memo that said to do it since it'll help with tax preparation in years to come. His wife had income and expenses just about everywhere he did. Every time I deleted an item that belonged to his wife, it seemed like I was erasing an important part of him, a part of his life that wasn't going to come back.
So, while I still can I have to live! I'm going to live with all I've got! As my friend says: Everyone wants to be happy and nobody wants to feel pain, but you can't have a Rainbow without any rain ♥ :D
Every day I encounter different people. Some of them are really interesting, like the guy named Adam. Just Adam. That was his entire name. I got in contact with him and turns out he's a hippie! He legally doesn't have a last name. How cool is that :D?
Today, marked the first of two other encounters. I did my first tax return where the wife earned more than the husband! In my head I was doing a "you go girl!" dance, haha.
The other encounter wasn't such a good one. The taxpayer's wife passed away in 2009, so while the taxpayer filed MFJ for his 2009 tax return, he has to file as a single taxpayer for the tax year 2010... Which meant I had to delete all evidence of his wife in the tax program we use. It really had an effect on me... He knew that's what we had to do, and he went ahead and wrote a memo that said to do it since it'll help with tax preparation in years to come. His wife had income and expenses just about everywhere he did. Every time I deleted an item that belonged to his wife, it seemed like I was erasing an important part of him, a part of his life that wasn't going to come back.
So, while I still can I have to live! I'm going to live with all I've got! As my friend says: Everyone wants to be happy and nobody wants to feel pain, but you can't have a Rainbow without any rain ♥ :D