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The Golden and Creamy Life of Accountants. Boring? You're So Wrong.BY: Alessandro Saetta Vinci | Category: Careers | Submitted: 2010-11-20 12:15:15
There are essentially two types of workers. Those who like their job, and those who don't. This was obvious, wasn't it? Well, yes it was, but..and it's not a small, shallow "but", it is a rather big, rounded, heavy "but". But I believe that usually people who have the best jobs are those who seem to like it the least. Take footballers for instance, they get paid anything between 30-40 grand a year (a minor league player) to many millions a year (C.Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic, etc etc...) and their job consists in running around a pitch, kicking a ball and, occasionally, telling some bloke with a microphone that "the team played well but we were unlucky". That is all. Well, instead of going around shagging supermodels and buying Ferraris, like they should, lately there's been a talk about a strike. A strike? A bloody strike, footballers on a strike? Apparently, that's because they don't like their contracts, because when you're 30-something you're done with as a player so you'll wind up, in fact, unemployed. Which to me sounds a bit stupid. As if Bill Gates sold Microsoft and then said "sorry chaps but I'm broke now, so I will pick up signs and protest". Then you have accountants. Now you might think that an accountant has a deeply boring life, you might imagine they get up, have a coffee, get inside a office, type stuff into a computer for the whole day and then go home in a people carrier of some sort. That's not quite how it works. Certainly, if you know people who work that job they'll tell you that it's awful, shows no sign of change, no career chance, and then they won't stop bleating because they don't make enough money or because they're mistreated or underestimated. They'll even tell you it's boring. And difficult. That's not exactly true. See, what accountants really do is get up at 9.30 when they had to be at their desks by 9, have three coffees with fiancées, friends, colleagues and their dog. Then get to work. Have a coffee and a snack with a colleague, which usually has a big cleavage. Then, at around 11, finally sit at their desk and turn on the computer. Then they get up from their desks and go out to make "an important phone call", which usually ends up with a sentence like "Ok, Mate! See ya at the pitch at 8! Hey, I'll carry the ball!" then go back at their desks only to find they have a few hundred million billion thousand invoices to take care of, they'll take care of one or two, maybe, and then they'll ignore them to get to the much more lucrative and important business of playing BlackJack online. Then they'll chat with friends, colleagues, moms, dads, cousins, fiancées and maybe dogs, on iChat, Facebook, Twitter, Badoo, MSN Messenger and Yahoo chat. Afterwards, at around 1 pm they'll go out for lunch, which they will charge on the company. Then, after lunch, they'll spend 30 minutes on their phone, which is paid for by the company, to talk to a mate about an important "work matter", like for example who'll pay for beers tonight. Then they'll spend the rest of the evening trying to hit on the receptionist or on their closest colleague who is always, no matter how hard you try not to look at her, drop dead gorgeous. Finally, at around 5 o-clock they'll get in the car, which 1 time out of 2 is a company car that's running on fuel that's charged on the company, and go home. Or, with any luck, out for dinner with the colleague they were flirting with earlier during the day. Not so bad, eh? And it gets even better when you think that an accountant earns, depending upon age, experience, etc. anything between 2,000 to 7,000 euros a month, with 14 months paid. And a company phone. And all meals paid. And sometimes even a company car with fuel paid. I know all this because I've been an accountant for three years. And don't think this is just a male thing, either. Female accountants lead pretty much the same office life, only they talk about their new boss and his Mercedes rather than about the secretary or receptionist and spend the entire day watching shoes on the internet and talking about shoes during the coffee break. Which they have every 15 seconds. That's not the end of the story, though. You probably know someone who works in a shop, as a shop assistant or a profession with similar tasks. They'll sure tell you they like it because they sell beautiful clothes or perfumes or whatever. They'll keep on going on about how they like to be "in direct contact" with people. They'll tell you how easy it is to do their job. Yeah, right. If YOU've been a shop assistant, even for just one day, you know that what actually happens is you get half what accountants get paid to work double their hours, at least one day more than them per week, on Christmas and during the Summer. You have to stand up for 10 hours and talk to customers who will spit on you because they wanted a blue-navy shirt, but you've given them a sky blue one. The list goes on with actors, entertainers and musicians, you might think they lead a great life. All is well, everything appears to made out of diamonds and creamy pink vapour but apparently it's just rocks and venom. They get paid millions to do what they love but they aren't happy, are they? Otherwise they wouldn't pass their time by doing several different drugs and shooting themselves in the head. It makes me wonder, couldn't it be that we're as happy as we could be just exactly when we don't even care to show it? Maybe sometimes, somebody's life, seems to be so bright on the outside because it is terrifyingly dark in the core. That's the reason why great showmen constantly kill themselves whereas suicides rate amongst carpenters is low. That's the reason, may I guess, the happiest person I know works as a simple worker and makes no more than 1,000 a month. Make no mistake, then. If you know somebody who bangs on about how lovely their jobs are, or how much money they're making, they probably hate that job. This brings me on neatly to a conclusion. And I'll conclude with a quote from one of my favourite movies ever. Vanity and happiness seldom go together. Article Source: http://www.writearticles.org/ About Author / Additional Info: Comments on this article: (0 comments so far)
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