My mom had told me they were looking for a temp at her work. I was like "ooo me me me!!" I knew everyone there from meeting my mom up there all the time. I was told it was just data entry type of stuff. However, she then said they were looking for someone with a business degree. There it goes, I'm screwed. I will never have the right degree for anything even though I can do the job. Or at least learn quickly. How hard can entering data be that you need a business degree??
My name was mentioned at it was just up in the air on needing a temp at the time. I think at some point they agreed on letting me come in and work as a temp and I'd talk to the boss the following week. My mom suggested I wear my suit (to this very casual office in an apartment), while this other girl said I could wear whatever. Weird thing happened, and before that week approached, my mom called and said to come in to work ASAP because they wanted me right now. Wow, what a way to hurry out of bed! I was excited, but then very nervous.
I put on something pretty casual, but enough to still look decent. What can they expect on moment's notice? I got in around 8:30am and met with the girl I would be working with. She had a small desk with a computer set up in her office for me. She was younger than me. It was nice, because it gave me less anxiety being with someone young. I was extremely nervous though because I felt like I didn't belong there doing accounting work. I don't know a thing about accounting!
After some time, the boss came in to meet with me to explain the job and offer my pay. I don't know if I completely understood everything he was saying since I'm not overly familiar with the business. I figured I'd eventually learn. It's a property management company that manages 19 apartment properties in about 6 states.
The first day, I remember working on overbudgets. It was probably the most confusing thing at the time. I thought I would never understand what I was doing. It made absolutely no sense! She showed me some other things I would enter into their program they used, called Skyline. I did some journal entries (which I had no idea what those were either). I just did what I was shown every day and wrote down step-by-step notes every time.
I didn't understand the purpose of everything. What did entering this and that do? Where does this come into play? Why do you do this? I was just doing and not understanding. After a cycle or two, I started taking time and realizing how everything I was doing was being put together and things were starting to make sense. Those moments were so cool! I thought I was maybe getting it. I was just learning on my own almost.
So that was it. I did journal entries, reconciled bank statements (which was the most puzzling thing I did, and loved it), put together income statements, overbudgets, posting, and repeat. It was fun and I really enjoyed it.
At one point, they brought in another temp to help out. I was a bit disappointed thinking I was terrible or something. The girl I worked with seemed to really like her for some unknown reason although she couldn't do anything the right way and made tons of errors. Whatever. It started to suck because I would hardly have any work anymore. We didn't need her after about a month.
Then one day it was mentioned that they wanted to keep her over me. Then a whole thing started with a lady downstairs that said she would take me down there if they kept this other girl. Well, at least I had some people on my side (well, most everyone). Despite my lack of speaking, people seem to really like me there. Weird.
Then began all this talk about taking me downstairs. It would extend my time there through at least the first part of next year if that could happen. I liked the idea, but wasn't going to hold my breath for it. Originally I was just a temp upstairs to help out while they switched to this new property management program. This meant it would last anywhere until September or December.
All the sudden one day in early October, the head lady downstairs met with me and the girl upstairs and asked if I would like to come work downstairs as the temp they had down there would be leaving in a couple weeks. Wow, this was really sudden. I was completely unprepared for that, but I wasn't going to say no! They had me start the next day so that I would be able to get training in from the temp before she leaves. At this point, it would be a week and a half of training. Click here to continue...
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