New Year's Eve Blue Moon
31 December 2009
My first thoughts of the new year were relatively frivolous. I contemplated the advantage of being compared with Pepper Potts, rather than the Eve Teschmacher (from Superman) moniker bestowed on me by my boss (he gets to be called Doctor Evil). First, I love alliteration! Second, as a villain, Teschmacher is restricted to life underground, while Potts enjoys a relatively normal life. And of course, given that I am the most poorly paid person in comparison to others who do what I do (in his defense, he gave me a chance to manipulate numbers because he could see I was good with them when no one else would hire me because I had no finance/accounting background other than a few classes), I am envious that Tony pays Pepper well enough that she can afford to drive one of those sexy little Audi TT roadsters and well, I really love sexy little roadsters, although I'm more of a Porsche fan. Yes, my midlife crisis is still in full swing.
You can always photoshop it blue!
ReplyDeleteTT's are driven by +55 year old men who cannot afford a Porsche >-> (my experience - I know some TT drivers) - you should really go for the Porsche.
ReplyDeleteHehe, now I have to google who Pepper Potts might be so I can understand your posting ... .
I'd have to photoshop out the clouds and I'm not good enough to do that, AB!
ReplyDeleteI don't think your google-fu has to be very strong to find her, Martina. Pepper was the faithful assistant in the Iron Man movie in 2008.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371746/
Yes, that was easy. Now I have do think about Doctor Evil comparing you with Pepper ...
ReplyDeleteBonjour Kobico
ReplyDeleteTu as reçu une récompense que tu trouveras sur mon billet
Un prix...Une récompense
Ne te crois pas obligée mais elle est amplement méritée.
Bises
Hey Trace - I like your blog, the pics are nice and you really do write well. I check it out every few weeks or so.
ReplyDeleteNot to be a busy body, but working for free or below market must not be fun. Its one thing to earn less $$ to be a coach or teacher or something with a humanitarian bent. But if you are going to work for company, you might as well be paid properly for it.
Have you seen this program:
http://www.scu.edu/business/edc/programs/caap/cfm
It's a very intense (and pricey) program at Santa Clara that basically lets you complete a the accounting portions of a BS accouting in 3 months and sit for the CPA exam. Following that, a few years in a public accounting firm to get the CPA cert and you are set to have whatever kind of work life you want.
With your smarts, work ethic and can-do personality, you would be very much in-demand in industry and would be earning 6 figures pretty quickly (not that you were ever money driven, but Porsches are not cheap.)
Alternatively, after getting the CPA, you could work part time as an auditor or temp/contractor type and pursue your other interests.
The problem with your current situation is that its very difficult to get employers to let you do finance/accounting without the background training (which, as you note, is why your current employer can get you to work for so little)
Currently, I deal quite a bit with accountants and CPAs, and they really do have stable job prospects if they are good, and you would be.
Anyway, just my 2c.
B from mid 90s
oh, and SJSU has a one year program for non business majors that yields a full MS Accounting, but of course that a year without income. I dont know how the marketability of the two compare, but I imagine if you pass the CPA exam, the firms arent really going to care whether you got the full MS or just the Santa Clara certificate. Then again, that's conjecture on my part - if you are interested, I could find out. As I said, I deal with auditors quite a bit these days.
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How can anyone not like a villain who puts himself in the deep freeze in a huge doll sent into space! I guess the Evil/Potts combination is strange, Martina. And yet, funny...
ReplyDeleteGelisa, je suis honoré que tu as pensé de moi. Merci, et bien sûr, félicitations!
Dear busy body: thanks for the information. I'll check them out. I think I'm short 9 or 12 units to be eligible for the CPA and CFA exams, depending on what they will allow from my undergraduate and graduate work. I hope you're well, wep.
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Bonjour Kobico
ReplyDeletePlusieurs année après la naissance de mon fils, je suis retournée sur le marché du travail avec un petit cours de tenue de livre.
J'étais seule soutient et j'ai fais plusieurs endroits avant de trouver un salaire convenable.
Ensuite, (J'avais 35 ans) J'ai été chercher un diplome universitaire en comptabité, par les soirs, tout en travaillant. Et mon employeur me les a payées. Tu sais, beaucoup d'entreprises ont un fonds pour la formation.
C'est 4 années d'étude, (c'est 10 cours pour un certificat) je t'assure que je ne les regrette pas, et bien des portes se sont ouvertes pour moi depuis.
Et pour entretenir ta motivation, et bien accroche une image de la Porsche que tu aimes, sur le mur, devant ta table de travail.
Bises
Ah, oui, j'étudiais les soirs quand j'ai commencé mon emploi actuel. Je devais arreter les cours quand la charge de travail a augmenté. Quelque part, j'ai perdu mon élan d'étudier. Mais j'aime ton idée ... une photo d'une Porsche sur mon mur!
ReplyDeleteBisous.
Seems you've got the best of both worlds, despite the pay. You're a culinary whiz...and now you get to cook the books for your boss !
ReplyDeleteAlas, there is nothing on the books to cook, Tim. Things are not looking very bright and I am running out of personal resources to keep going with only the promise of back pay IF the company is financed. I actually have to start scrambling, now. I hope I'll be able to pull a Joe Montana and start making steady forward progress.
ReplyDeleteYou be Joe Montana and I'll be Jerry Rice and you can make a pass...er, THROW a pass is what I mean...well, let me see now...
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