Day 214 - EOM woes

 Today is the 4th day of the 31st week, the 2nd day of the 8th month, the 214th day of 2023. and:

• Dinosaurs Day
• National CAD Day
• National Coloring Book Day
• National Ice Cream Sandwich Day
• Take a Penny / Leave a Penny Day
• Tu B'Av

Quote of the day:

"I know what I don't know.  To this day, I don't know technology and I don't know finance or accounting."

~ Bernard Ebbers, Canadian businessman and co-founder of WorldCom

Every EOM/EOQ/EOY, I start to wonder...   How did I land in a job that involves loan accounting/operating systems, multitudes of spreadsheets and reports, and regular account reconciliations?  ME, who disliked math with a purple passion, never thought of myself as organized,  and spent years ignoring computers?  How did I end up learning not one LAS [loan accounting system] but five, not to mention setting up processes and procedures for entire departments?

I mean I grew up determined to be a teacher or librarian or writer.  My majors in college were History [concentrating on ancient and medieval] and Social Science with minors in education and physical anthropology.  My first full time position was a manager for Mother Goose Shoes in Security Mall, and if retail had paid well, I would've probably stayed there.  Instead? I ended up as a teller for Equitable Bank, then Commercial & Farmers, then moved to Customer Service Representative, then over to the Loan Department, and then eventually into the back office/support functions of Loan Servicing [which includes administration, reporting, loan operations, and delinquency].  I just went with the flow, and here I am, dealing with technology and accounting.

I wonder if things would've been different, if I would "love my work" if I had actually mapped out a career?  You always see the advice that you should follow your heart and craft a career doing something you love, but somehow I never quite figured out how to earn a living reading, learning, and asking questions. Hobbies?  needlework and gaming doesn't pay either.  I really liked it when I was a speaker at conferences on the subject of knowledge management in financial services, but that fell by the wayside when I ended up with a boss that saw no reason to allow me time off from work to continue doing that, and I was far from being paid for it.  

And so I slog along, realizing with wry humor that I am precisely that cog in the wheel the young me so passionately swore never to be

And to top it off, the blasted accounts are out by $5.08 this month

*sighs*