Good Afternoon My Dears:
It seems that I am not quite as good at bookkeeping and admin work as I thought. The job that I got a few weeks ago is not for me. If I am to work in accountancy, I need to be part of an accounting team, with the ability to ask questions of someone higher placed that I am. Unfortunately, the job that I took with the recruitment company was running their back office and accounts without anyone to ask questions of. On the one hand, I felt that if I had had a month's training with the accountant tat I replaced, I would have seen all the pieces of the job and been able to carry on as he had set everything up quite nicely. My boss did not agree and so their was an amicable parting of ways. They have agreed to give me a good reference and in fact, they called me yesterday with a position for a bilingual customer services agent. Unfortunately, there is not much call for people with Greek and French speaking skills in Customer Services. I think that's because both of those nations are rather puffed up with their own self importance and probably feel they don't need language help.
On the other hand, perhaps accounting is not for me. Yesterday, I rewrote my CV so that it sits rather low on the experience totem pole and sent it out to agencies to start looking for work that would have me as part of a finance/accounting team rather than the whole kit and caboodle. I also went to a really cool bookstore to see if they were hiring, but alas it was not to be. Today, I decided to switch gears and I have started looking for work in writing. I applied to write for the Indie Pedant, a magazine that publishes online. I also applied for a writing job that deals with Search Engine Optimization. That is when you go through web site content to make sure that it has all the key words needed to place the website at the top of a list of search results. I am hoping that my blog is writing sample enough.
I am not quite ready to give up yet but I will admit it is a close thing currently. I may have to come home earlier than Christmas as I originally planned but I still have 3 more months on my lease so have to try and survive until then.
Right, that's all she wrote, folks.
Next Up: My mama comes, the fringe, and friends.
Cheerio for now,
Tina
It seems that I am not quite as good at bookkeeping and admin work as I thought. The job that I got a few weeks ago is not for me. If I am to work in accountancy, I need to be part of an accounting team, with the ability to ask questions of someone higher placed that I am. Unfortunately, the job that I took with the recruitment company was running their back office and accounts without anyone to ask questions of. On the one hand, I felt that if I had had a month's training with the accountant tat I replaced, I would have seen all the pieces of the job and been able to carry on as he had set everything up quite nicely. My boss did not agree and so their was an amicable parting of ways. They have agreed to give me a good reference and in fact, they called me yesterday with a position for a bilingual customer services agent. Unfortunately, there is not much call for people with Greek and French speaking skills in Customer Services. I think that's because both of those nations are rather puffed up with their own self importance and probably feel they don't need language help.
On the other hand, perhaps accounting is not for me. Yesterday, I rewrote my CV so that it sits rather low on the experience totem pole and sent it out to agencies to start looking for work that would have me as part of a finance/accounting team rather than the whole kit and caboodle. I also went to a really cool bookstore to see if they were hiring, but alas it was not to be. Today, I decided to switch gears and I have started looking for work in writing. I applied to write for the Indie Pedant, a magazine that publishes online. I also applied for a writing job that deals with Search Engine Optimization. That is when you go through web site content to make sure that it has all the key words needed to place the website at the top of a list of search results. I am hoping that my blog is writing sample enough.
I am not quite ready to give up yet but I will admit it is a close thing currently. I may have to come home earlier than Christmas as I originally planned but I still have 3 more months on my lease so have to try and survive until then.
Right, that's all she wrote, folks.
Next Up: My mama comes, the fringe, and friends.
Cheerio for now,
Tina
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