Turns out, being at a new job does, too.
I wonder how many ways I can find to make myself feel like an inept
idiot? I'm pretty good at it.
I did finally figure out why this new situation is - or was - so
disconcerting.
Back when I was a rookie accountant it used to be the norm that you’d
work for years on the same clients. You’d typically take them over from someone
who’d left your accounting firm or become partner. The good part about that was
there would be plenty of files to review and usually the partner in charge to
fill you in. So year after year, you’d get to know multiple businesses and
their owners. Eventually, one of them would start to grow and, liking you and
your work so much, and needing more help, they’d hire you away as their
controller. You could step right into that role without any down time at all.
If you got any luckier, they’d continue to grow, and you’d end up CFO.
It’s not like that anymore, or at least not in my case. Sarbanes-Oxley
may’ve played a role in it, too.
Now if you get hired as an ‘inside’ accountant, you’re going in nearly cold.
Sure, numbers are numbers, and you may even know a lot about the business model
that’s hired you, but they’re all a bit different, and there’s a huge learning
curve that would’ve not been there had you been working with them all along.
I am lucky this time. The complete nerve rattling that I expected to
last several months only lasted a week and a half.
Yes.
I probably forgot to say….three years, five months, 16 days, 549
applications, 27 interviews. Someone finally said yes.
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