Not much going on in my world...
Mar. 29th, 2005 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosebeeGot some books from the library. A Nicholas Sparks book called "The Wedding" that's a sequel to "The Notebook". Evidently this new book follows the daughter & son-in-law of the couple in The Notebook. I also picked up a historical fantasy book by J. Ardian Lee "Son of the Sword". This guy goes to a renaissance fair, picks up a sword and gets transported into 16th or 17th century Scotland. It looks interesting, but I'll have to wait & see once I find time to read it.
I've been having fun emailing my half-sister who was given up for adoption by my mom as an infant (8 years before I was born). It's amazing to find & discover our similarities & personality quirks, because they have to all be chalked up to shared genetics or pure amazing concidence.
Oddly enough, I've been feeling occasional pangs today of not being good enough to succeed at public accounting. Especially after looking through some of last year's year-end stuff, seeing some papers from the auditor, and seeing the name of a guy I used to work with about 3 or 4 years ago. It's like a reminder that I used to be at the same place as him, albiet a level or two under him, and he progressed to a certain point, and I wasn't able to hack it. I ran into a gal I went to school with a week or so ago at the bagel shop. It took me a long time to try & figure out where I knew her from. I mentioned how I'd abandoned public accounting for governmental accounting, and how my former employers figured out I didn't have the personality to succeed in public accounting before I did. She said I should consider that a compliment! :) Made me feel a bit better.
I *think* the hangup I have is that I wish I had been able to say to myself, I can do your public accounting stuff, I can do it amazingly well, I just don't want to. But instead I have to tell myself if I struggle I can do your public accounting stuff, I kinda still want to. I imagine I'll be better able to tell myself I don't want public accounting when I'm more comfortable with my new job. Though I still *really* miss the camradarie I had with my colleagues in the accounting firms I worked at. There's really none of that here, and I'm surprised with how much I miss it.
I'm hungry now. I want dinner to jump out from the fridge & prepare itself. Cause otherwise I'll probably end up having chips & dip for dinner. Along with whatever remains I find in the fridge of leftovers.
I've been having fun emailing my half-sister who was given up for adoption by my mom as an infant (8 years before I was born). It's amazing to find & discover our similarities & personality quirks, because they have to all be chalked up to shared genetics or pure amazing concidence.
Oddly enough, I've been feeling occasional pangs today of not being good enough to succeed at public accounting. Especially after looking through some of last year's year-end stuff, seeing some papers from the auditor, and seeing the name of a guy I used to work with about 3 or 4 years ago. It's like a reminder that I used to be at the same place as him, albiet a level or two under him, and he progressed to a certain point, and I wasn't able to hack it. I ran into a gal I went to school with a week or so ago at the bagel shop. It took me a long time to try & figure out where I knew her from. I mentioned how I'd abandoned public accounting for governmental accounting, and how my former employers figured out I didn't have the personality to succeed in public accounting before I did. She said I should consider that a compliment! :) Made me feel a bit better.
I *think* the hangup I have is that I wish I had been able to say to myself, I can do your public accounting stuff, I can do it amazingly well, I just don't want to. But instead I have to tell myself if I struggle I can do your public accounting stuff, I kinda still want to. I imagine I'll be better able to tell myself I don't want public accounting when I'm more comfortable with my new job. Though I still *really* miss the camradarie I had with my colleagues in the accounting firms I worked at. There's really none of that here, and I'm surprised with how much I miss it.
I'm hungry now. I want dinner to jump out from the fridge & prepare itself. Cause otherwise I'll probably end up having chips & dip for dinner. Along with whatever remains I find in the fridge of leftovers.
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