The Digital Page

I wonder what ever possessed someone to sit down and write a textbook.

I know things. I want to make other people know things in the most painful and boring way possible.

Money is probably the only motivation. I mean, people wouldn't just write textbooks for fun. It's not like they're novels with exciting plots and characters.

Although, the people who write the fraud cases try to make it that way.
But I see through their wiley schemes. (the authors- not the perpetrators about whom they're writing)
And then they ask me questions about the 16 pages I just read.
Could you have at least drawn some pictures of the CEO yelling ferverently at the auditors?

A colorfully illustrated fraud case book. Business Idea #38.

And now I'm trying to study for my fraudulent financial reporting class, and I feel like I'm reading a dictionary.

Revenue recognition is this.
Deferred taxes are that.
Research and development looks like this, but it's really not.
Foreign currency translation exists.

You: "Allie J- it seems like you're taking a lot of fraud classes. I thought you weren't all up in that hot topic."
Me: I'm not.

But somehow, they still manage sneak it into the core courses of the MAcc and call it "integration".

It's not all tough cookies and harpischords, though.
I like open-ended questions on tests where as long as you can logically back up your opinion, you win.
(And then I do.)

And tomorrow I get to talk to The Doctor and pick out the last college class that I will ever take. I'll have to apply for graduation. Again. Do you think I should actually attend this time? The ceremony will be much shorter. And MAcc graduates even get a pinning ceremony. *giggle*

I miss my Dilbert comic books.
...
Well that was probably the nerdiest thing I've said all week.

The job search is going fantastically bleak.
Fantastically in that I'm applying to several new jobs every week.
Bleak in that I don't hear anything back.

“I think one place that’d be cool to get fired from, if you had to get fired, would be the unemployment office; because then you just go right back in there the next day and be like, “You work for me now, bitch. Find me a job. Hop to!”

—	Demetri Martin

I've discovered that I'm a great listener.
And a great thing-writer-downer.
These skills go great together, and are important (in my opinon) but how do I put them on a resume?

"Uses ears"
"Efficient note-taker"
Or maybe a general "Possesses communication skills that should be common but actually aren't"

Here's a true story: one time I was at an interview, and this partner of an accounting firm was looking over my resume. At this point in time, I was touting 85 WPM under typing skills.
Did he ask me about my involvement with student organizations, my classes or grades, my previous experience with information systems or employment at the school?
No.
He was all like, "So you type fast, huh?"

85 is no lie. I have the paper to prove it.
But why he wanted to talk about that minor detail on a page full of way more relevant information, I'll never know. He probably wanted to make me feel silly for having it on there.
So, yeah, I removed the 85 WPM from my resume.
And, no, I'm not going to go work for that firm.
(but I can still type 85 WPM)

Economists do it with models,
TWS