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How many people do you know that are comfortable in the position they live in? 

I’m asking this because I went to a party last night at a friend of the family’s who’s son was going into the Army. I looked at the socioeconomic environment around me, and started thinking why are most of these rational adults, many with families comfortable here for years on end? 

What could be the cause: The Government, Corporate America, Big OIl. Wal-Mart, the man? NO! It all lies in the individual! Success in life is achieved largely through motivation & willingness to learn.

I have always been an advocate of college, but if you apply yourself well enough, it’s not needed. The system is built to let the individual succeed if they want to. You can take college courses and get a tax credit, take loans out for that education and deduct the interest, open a small business and take advantage of many tax breaks, move to a “better pasture” and take a deduction on your moving expenses…it’s endless. 

There are no excuses. Just get out there and keep improving yourself. 

Since I have most evenings off nowadays I have had the chance to watch more and more TV. Has it really gotten this bad?

The two staple channels I watch: The History Channel & Discovery Channel have really gone downhill. I swear, they repeat the same low quality programming  – most of it reality based. It probably took Discovery like 6 months after the Deadliest Catch season ended to stop continuously airing reruns. History was a little better with ending the nonstop Ice Road Truckers repeats after 3-4 months.

What made it worse for Discovery is that they put salt in the crab wounds by following the Deadliest Catch reruns with a show mirroring the same thing only they substituted Lobster for the catch and Maine for the state.

I guess I just remember the days when I would turn to these channels and learn something cool most of the time instead of the reality crap they put on the networks.

Hopefully with the IN Demand technology they have now I can eventually just pick and choose the shows I watch. But that is just wishful thinking.

One of the partners at the CPA firm I work at the first day suggested that I take a tax prep course though one of the big tax preperation companies. It started on the day I began working for my CPA firm and goes until the middle of November.

There are a few normal people who are taking it but a vast majority of them are annoying or just plain weird.

One lady in her 40’s probably has been working for this company for years as a tax preparer yet is taking the Tax Prep 101 again – probably to make herself feel smarter and more important than she really is. This individual has to insert her knowdlege on everything and runs around during computer exercises “checking on everyone.” I have to restrain myself when she asks me if I am okay and tries to give advice. Yes, lady, that’s great I can hit Alt+C and carry the info over to the hash totals, I DON’T F***ING CARE!!! IT’S EASY ENOUGH TO JUST COPY THE NUMBERS INTO THE BOX.

I was about ready to verbally lash out at her a couple weeks ago when she was talking about how hard it was the first time she took the class. How she was working full time (probably as a prostitute) too…blah blah blah. I can only imagine how she would handle in a real college.

Her blonde co-worker, another multi-year faithful employee of this place creeps me out. I was walking in while they were smoking before the thing started a couple weeks ago and she greeted me with a “hey baby!” **shudders**

I guess I get cranky before, during and after sitting there for 3 agonizing hours learning about tax – most of which I already learned in college.

Another thing that irritates me about the thing is that it’s a big recruiting session. I had to get approval on Day 1 to take it since I work for a CPA firm and it might violate their “No Competitor Employees” policy.

Plus the job just isn’t appealing. You get to do crappy tax returns, only make $8-12/hr and lose your job after April. I can go be a mall santa, sit in a chair and do nothing for that much for seasonal work.

Oh well, at least I can take comfort knowing that in November I will be done with it. I have learned more about taxes from struggling on the Corporate, Partnership and Non-Profit returns then I did taking this class so far.

The End.

I am changing my blog stomping ground from Google’s to one provided by WordPress. I doubt anyone will mind since nobody reads this.