The Changing Nature Of Your Job

Anyone who is fortunate enough these days to have a job, whether you're the CEO of a multinational or working behind the counter at your local coffee shop, is aware that jobs are no longer static. The job we were hired to do two or three years ago has changed, and we'd better be prepared to change with them, or risk finding ourselves in the unemployment line.

In my particular case, I was hired as a financial manager of a small internet service company. My responsibilities included all accounting functions with the exception of filing tax returns, and duties that fell under the realm of 'office management' such as cell phones, credit cards, expenses etc. Basically, if it involved money, it went through me. In addition, I'm also responsible for customer service, specifically customer support requests emailed from the internet site itself, which basically involves answering 'how do I' type of questions.

I've done this kind of work for about 12 years and simply love it. All you accounting types out there will understand it when I say that nothing makes the sun shine brighter and gives me more satisfaction at the end of the day than when the debits and credits balance. It's pretty black and white, with few grays.

All that changed drastically about two months ago.

Raising investment funds became more and more difficult as potential investors turned off the flow of investment dollars, no longer willing to risk their own hard earned cash in a venture that has definite promise, but no guarantees.

In order to stretch cash reserves as far as possible, the company I work for has done all the obvious including eliminating positions that, although beneficial in the long run, could be done without in the short term. Of course the duties of the people that were dismissed still have to be done, hence a redistribution of the workload.

Which is how I came to be a writer. Quite honestly it's not something I ever saw myself doing, nor did I think I would be any good at it simply because it's not something I'd ever done before.

I'm not going to lie and say that it was easy, far from it. Particularly in the beginning, it was excruciatingly difficult because my brain was wired for paperwork and ledgers, not a blank piece of paper, a pencil (okay, a laptop, but you know what I man) and no ideas!

I tackled it like I would any new project, I made a list. As a financial manager, I make lists on a daily basis; post this, pay that, reconcile this and balance that. I started by listing all the things that I'm interested in and surfing the internet for hours every day looking for appealing topics to write about. I try to keep at least three days for of topics in 'the pipe' so to speak because when I have to write several articles every single day on top of my other duties, having to think of something to write about first thing in the morning just adds stress where there need be none.

All in all it's working out very well. I've learned a lot about myself and give thanks daily to my high school English teacher of oh so long ago for being so anal about spelling and sentence structure. I've find strengths within myself that I never knew I possessed, and after all, isn't that what life is all about?

This article was written by Shawn Wilson, a member of the customer support team at Datepad, where internet dating is always free. Datepad has a massive directory of informative dating articles along with a great list of dating site reviews on their dating blog.

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