I Need A New Career, Any Ideas?

20+ years as an accountant is too much.  I’m beginning to dread getting out of bed in the morning.  Every day is the same thing, process this, balance that, investigate that other thing.  The tedium of it is mind-numbing. 

 

Even if the tasks held some interest there’s still that other factor, my co-workers. Now I don’t want to reinforce an old stereotype and say that accountants are boring that would be wrong.  Boring actually conjures up an image of people with a personality just a dull one.  That’s not my co-workers, if these people purchased a personality on ebay, they’d copy it in triplicate and file it under E for ebay, N for Non-taxable and U for Unnecessary.  And I’m being kind.  They’re anal retentive nut balls. 

 

I have one co-worker, Eva, that has stacks of daily reports going back to 2006 (these reports can be run at any time with the same criteria and the same results).  Not only does she keep them she tabs them with a color coded system and indexes them on a spreadsheet.  In the 2 years I’ve worked with her she’s never needed one of these reports, ever. 

 

The other co-worker is just as weird but in a totally different creepy way.  She types up all business conversations and then sorts and highlights them by topic and participants.  She’s been there for a year and these conversations just made it to two binders.  Times used, zero.

 

And neither one of them ever talks.

 

I’d like to say I’ve scraped the bottom of the barrel with these two but that would be a big fat lie.  In their own way every accountant I’ve worked with, or for, has been annoying in their own obsessive-compulsive way.  Not to mention (ok I will mention) that all accountants look like the kids in school that always got packed last in basketball and are auditioning for “40 year old Virgin”.  It is long past time to move on.

 

So, what the hell do I do with the rest of my life?  Going back to college is an option.  Any ideas?

Comments

[anne.of.mdi]

You just need a vacation. All jobs suck. If you've been at this one for 20 years that means you're middle-aged and it would be very tough to find a new job. Job security is a thing of the past. Stick with this job and just find a new activity to take your mind off of it: mine is cycling. It gets those endorphins going and whittles away that middle-aged spread in the bargain. By the way, every time I see that baby picture I think, awww, cute!

[Jules]

You think your job is boring. I'm working at home now, as an independent contractor, answering calls for informercials. I love being at home, and while it is slow to begin with, it's slow increasing and this is the slow season. I hope to make this a full-time job and never work outside the home again, but man, some of the stuff we takes calls for!!

Well, the Girls Gone Wild script isn't boring. It's pornographic!

[jane the pain]

Hey! I'm an accountant! But I did give up the boring staff accounting thing and stuck with payroll for at least 25 years now. We laugh a lot here at work. I was on vacation last week and my staff kept e-mailing me to come back to work it was boring with me.!!!!

It is what you make it..unless they are tight ass bitches!

[Trish]

I say do whatever makes you happy. Staying at a career you hate is bullshit. Keep looking through the classes, online or otherwise, and when you see something that strikes your fancy - go for it. You live once and to spend that one life being miserable is stupid.