A Year of Writing | GaterBait

I’m excited to start writing in this blog for several reasons, but one of the big ones is that I sit at a desk for work all day long. It gets a little boring, mainly because I have to share the office, and the other half of this room is very weird. I say this for a few reasons, but mostly because we sit 7 feet from each other and hardly ever speak. I’d love to sit and gab all day about something other than finance, but this woman has a one track mind for babies, and our possible relationship ended due to “we’re in different stages of our lives…”. Since we obviously don’t communicate, there are other weird things that occur; like her talking to herself or yelling at the computer, but then not expecting any reaction from me. We have a silent agreement to not talk, it just eases the awkwardness. It’s just one of those situations in life where you realize you don’t have to be friends with everyone you know. The first three months I worked here I think I just wiggled my mouse every 5 minutes so the screen wouldn’t fall asleep, thinking of things I could do to entertain myself.

The office has provided me with the opportunity to get pretty good at some finance-related skills though. Like, I’ve mastered typing numbers. I made that project number uno of importance when I got this job, cause I thought there’d be a lot more number crunching, and typing fast on the calculator, but really there’s not. I use the calculator more often to figure out how many more hours I have to sit here to get to a 40 hour work week, than to add actual bank stuff. But for a while I did enter some serial numbers into a spreadsheet, and that’s where I got my real practice. I’m pretty confident I could type a whole page of numbers without looking at the pad at like a 97% rate.

Here’s the other good thing about working in finance; I’m never required to make ideal chat with people about my job. Because as soon as you tell someone you’re an accountant- done, they have no more questions about what you do. You’re officially the most boring person they’ve ever met, and sometimes, I’m ok with that. Cause really dentist, I don’t want to chat with you, I want you to clean my teeth so I can get home and play guitar hero in my leggings and knock off uggs.

I can’t talk about my job without mentioning my husband works here too! So I always have someone to eat lunch with. And our company requires we have Yahoo! messenger chat so we can talk to people in other buildings. So basically all day long we just send each other funny cat pictures through IM’s. It’s way better than texting cause if my boss walks in it looks like I might be talking to shipping about an important account error (Which I’ve never done, but I’m assuming that be a legitimate use).

But the best part is… unlimited internet access. Hence, the start of my blog writing. So, Welcome 2013! Let the year of writing begin!