Randomness

I’m fast approaching being a part of the blogging community for about 16 weeks now, and this will only be my 7th blog. So much for my regular blogging schedule, shame on me!!

Well to catch you all up with me as I haven’t been around for a while.

You may remember a couple of months back I wrote a blog entry called “exam fever” as I was in the middle of my exams. Well, I got my results a week or so ago and I passed!! Yay me! I’m all done with study for the time being now, until I decide to further myself again!

Not much else has happened in the past month or so. Been very busy with dull, dull work! Very over-worked at the moment due to a general hectic work schedule in general, and work piling in, people leaving so temporary handovers taking place, which means even more work piling in. For those who don’t know… I’m a part qualified accountant. Yep, now you all realise why my work is dull!

But in all seriousness, at times I do really enjoy what I do, and I love the mental challenges it brings, especially when things turn out well and all my hard work has paid off and I can see the positive results. But it gets tiresome sometimes, with office politics and the long hours that I don’t get paid for, and the feeling of being overworked and under-appreciated.

It makes me wonder, and I’ve been thinking a bit about this lately, would I just be better off and more satisfied on a personal level if I were to pack in the life of an office worker and go back to the floaty life of waitressing and bar work??

They both have the positive and negative points.

For waitressing, it’s shift work, which can be annoying, but also good. It’s also a lot of evenings, which is also on the fence as it loses my evenings but gains me my daytimes. But I love the interaction with people, the opportunities to be a bit flirty, the sexier outfits (sometimes, when a uniform isn’t worn) etc. I don’t like the uncertainty over hours that I used to get sometimes, where I may work 40 hours one week and only 30 the next. I certainly don’t like the way it doesn’t even really cover my bills even with the higher hours though!!

As for my office life as an accountant, I work similar hours to J, so we get to spend more time together. I quite like the routine of 9-5, not having to an evening one day and an afternoon the next, which messes with my body clock. I like the sexy-smart professional look I have to try to achieve. I don’t like the increased stress or the overly hard work. But I do like the money, which is more than double my old waitressing / barwork salary, and is nice and even, the same amount every month. And perhaps more than anything else, I like having the chance to use my brain, to show my intelligence and to be challenged from an intellectual point of view.

I probably don’t need anybody to answer this for me, I’m going to choose the position of status and financial well-being 99 times out of 100. It’s what I’ve worked for throughout the last 5+ years. But I just can’t help feel that sometimes I think I like myself better, even if just a little, when I’m not in the full-time hustle bustle of the 9-5 office job!

Anyway, that’s enough of my rant for today. Going to try and keep on top of my blog from now on. Maybe I’ll post more shorter entries with the occasional longer entry in order to keep the flow. It’s quite hard to write every few days when you write as much as I often do in these blogs!!

Bye for now, see you all again very soon! :-)

Blogslut xx