It's Not Your Money! Dealing with Taxes
This could happen to you. You don’t earn much income from your creative work, yet. And the bills keep arriving with relentless regularity. So you decide to take a part-time job, any job, the first decent one you can find.
That’s how you find yourself one day (horror of horrors) interning for a local accounting firm. That’s right. Accounting. You never imagined such a thing, but you need the money and they were hiring.
No one in the office has any illusions about your skills. You’re a gofer. Not an apprentice or executive assistant... Nope, you’re a gofer. Or, more accurately, the gofer. That’s what everyone calls you: “Make the gofer go get it,” they say, and then they laugh, assuming you’re okay with the joke. Which, in fact, you are. Because who cares? You get to work in a quiet indoor space and the accountants are actually very nice people. It never crossed your mind before that you’d find the accountants funny, interesting, and some of them even... well, cute.
In addition to making copies and fetching lunch for people, there are several aspects to your job that you you find especially interesting.
You like working with the partners when you are called in to take notes for meetings with clients. It’s not the taking notes part that turns you on so much as hearing clients (who are oddly enough just plain old normal people) talk about issues they face in their daily lives. Hearing the partners respond to clients made you finally understand why someone would ever want to become something called a CPA in the first place.
That’s how you find yourself one day (horror of horrors) interning for a local accounting firm. That’s right. Accounting. You never imagined such a thing, but you need the money and they were hiring.
No one in the office has any illusions about your skills. You’re a gofer. Not an apprentice or executive assistant... Nope, you’re a gofer. Or, more accurately, the gofer. That’s what everyone calls you: “Make the gofer go get it,” they say, and then they laugh, assuming you’re okay with the joke. Which, in fact, you are. Because who cares? You get to work in a quiet indoor space and the accountants are actually very nice people. It never crossed your mind before that you’d find the accountants funny, interesting, and some of them even... well, cute.
In addition to making copies and fetching lunch for people, there are several aspects to your job that you you find especially interesting.
You like working with the partners when you are called in to take notes for meetings with clients. It’s not the taking notes part that turns you on so much as hearing clients (who are oddly enough just plain old normal people) talk about issues they face in their daily lives. Hearing the partners respond to clients made you finally understand why someone would ever want to become something called a CPA in the first place.