Just a little pep talk to myself

This stuff seems so trivial to me in the larger scale of things, but it makes up my "raison d'être" (reason for being - for all you Anglos) at the office. What I mean is that spending hours and hours pouring over data looking for discrepancies in the financial records only serves to reassure the company administrators and owners - it doesn't serve any grand purpose towards world peace or help cure the greenhouse effect -(although a little warming up would actually be nice thank you....). At the end of the day, what have I accomplished? The books are balanced. That's pretty much it in a nutshell. What a banal job! It would probably be more fun to do the accounting for a movie - or some more glamorous company - but really, it ends up being the same job no matter what - numbers, numbers, numbers. And once the financial statements are handed out and taxes are paid - they get filed away, and on to the following year.


I suppose that any job seen in this sense can make someone want to just give up, but I have to keep in mind that it's all these banal and every day stuff that makes a company thrive and survive. Without balanced books, banks won't lend, Governments will come sneaking around to audit, administrators won't know where the company is headed. Besides, what the heck am I complaining about - this is a job, this is a job that I get PAID to do. Good, steady employment - a lot of people would love to have my job. There, I feel better already. Now, back to work...