My first job out of college was for a Big Eight public accounting firm. My ‘job’ was to help automate client’s accounting tasks and to teach our clients how to use computers. The first Compaq computer I used was as big as a hard sided Samsonite suitcase. You would lay them down and open up the bottom for the keyboard and screen. They had the 5 inch floppy disks and used good old DOS. Not really part of my couch story but shows how long I’ve been using computers : ( So that was my job but I got in trouble alot for one thing. Talking. I should really say listening and talking. I would listen to anyone and I did alot. I don’t know why but people would always talk to me. Tell me their stuff good and bad. HR person CH didn’t like it. Probably just didn’t like me. Funny thing is if she just thought about it for a minute, she’d realize those people needed to talk. Maybe after talking to me, they could get back to work. Hey, I’ll bet I helped productivity and chargable hours.
Below is a picture of my big comfy couch. Alot of talking takes place on my big comfy couch. Sometimes crying happens on my big comfy couch. Never do I get in trouble for talking on my big comfy couch. It is funny how something seen as so negative one place can be one of the best things at another. I love the relationships I have with my clients, many deepened on my big comfy couch.
I love driving by my house at night when the lamps are on pulling the eyes right to my couch. It is sitting there, just waiting for the next converstation and loving its position at Amy Doerring Photography. Come sit the next time you are here!
It is funny, CH from above has a very public position in Des Moines politics. I get to see her often on the news and it makes me just smile. I’m so glad I am where I am today, maybe she makes me appreciate it even more.
Find a job where who you are is an asset not a liability. Thank you God for that gift!!!
