Nothing to do

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

After over a year living in New York, I finally got a job in my field: Staff Accountant. It's only 4 days a week but I'm making enough to pay the bills [just, with no outings or savings]. I'm hoping to get offered it full time, since the salaried workers get paid well over market.

The problem is there just isn't enough for me to do anymore. I started last month, and spent most of that catching up on last year's bookkeeping which my predecessor [2 days per week] hadn't gotten do, fixing the amortization schedule, learning the procedures for my standard tasks, cleaning my boss's desk, scanning and organizing things since this is supposed to be a paper-free office, and generally doing busy work.

But now I'm out of busy work. Everything is caught up. My daily duties take a few hours, slightly more during the beginning/end of month and for payroll. My boss is always in meetings with clients and the CEO, or keeping up on HIS work, that he doesn't have time to train me on anything. I keep asking for work or to do anything to assist him. But I'm mostly left on my own without any tasks, and nothing I can just learn to do myself.

Really worried I'll get my days cut to 3, or worse, 2. It took me months to find this, and I'm not getting any response from other part time positions to suppliment my off-days [and as a backup if my days do get cut].

Just a vent. I really want to get my Masters, but I don't have the spare money even to take the GMAT or a Continuing Education class. Or a bartending class, if it came to that [and even then, I probably couldn't find another job with no experience].

Okay, vent complete.

[Aislin]

Could you do any freelance bookkeeping? I used to work for quick books and a lot of bookkeepers had a few select clients they did work for on the side and kept a full time job as well. Just an idea.

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

Thankfully, they finally got tired of my whining and let me buy a giant Excel book so I could study it on the clock.

My direct supervisor is gaga over Excel, so considers it a good use of time.

[EricKei]

scanning and organizing things since this is supposed to be a paper-free office

I remember when the notion of a paper-free office first caught on...And also that it was soon followed by everybody printing out unneccessary copies of everything they sent or received inorder to CYOA, likely *increasing* the volume of paper in the office.

The main reason for this, as I recall, was the presumed unreliability of electronic storage in case of emergency (then again, any physical disaster that could destroy the computers could also destroy the actual paper...) -- These days, well-justified concerns over data/network security still apply, in addition to those.