Everyday I'm Hustlin'

The end of the year is coming and that means my job is heating up again. Between the months of January, February and March, the first quarter is by far the worst time of my entire year. I have to file some form of report be it annual, semi-annual or quarterly in an veto-overriding majority of the states between the first of the year and Tax Day as well as completing the rest of my work.

The good news is a lot of the licensing stuff is going to come off my plate. After it was originally plopped onto my plate unexpectedly back at the beginning of the month, I compiled a list of what I needed to do to do my additional duties in addition to my prior job. I presented it to my boss showing him the sheer number of things I need to do was overwhelming. Just as importantly, the likelihood I'd not be able to complete something in time really scared the piss out of me and thus him.

So help is on the way. They aren't going to employ someone new as there really may be only a little more than a half job to each of my positions. Instead we'll be farming most of the actual processing out to another company who will do it for us. I'll still be the person in charge of coordinating and collecting the material. Thus my job isn't in jeopardy. However it does mean I still need to learn everything useful to know about licensing.

I also have to make sure we're buttoning down the surplus lines stuff properly too. We've been pretty far behind since I got there and we'll only really catch up because I'll kill myself to get it done for the annuals. The last thing I want is to have something from 2006 trip me up in 2008.

All of this for a company I haven't even been employed by for a whole year yet. I enjoy the challenge and I prefer being a busy body to being bored out of my mind. It's a good job for me because I lose motivation if something is too easy and mindless. However there are sometimes I think about whether those above me really understand the work involved. Maybe a wunderkind of some sort could do my job much better and more efficiently. If you could get someone like that to take my job that is. Until they can, they're stuck with me.

(Happy Halloween Everybody!!!)