No longer a desk monkey... I'm now a "professional"

I finally finished my job in data entry aka 'desk monkey' and boy was I glad of continuous typing all day. Ended that job on 24 Feb and started my new job on 27 Feb. To all of the other desk monkeys, thanks for an interesting summer. I wish all of you the best for your endeavours this year and beyond.

The start of being a "professional"
My first week has been an extraordinarily tiring week. Extraordinary in the sense that I thought I'd prepped my mind and body to get used to work... ie waking up early in the morning, working from 8:30am to 5pm (and even 7:30pm at times). But no, still tired as anything... not that the information was THAT bad. It wasn't really an information overload, rather long hours getting and trying to retain information.

I've just started my 2nd week and currently doing a bookkeeping course... it's amazing what you do actually retain in your head. It's been around 5 years since I've studied any accounting (or bookkeeping for a matter) and wow I'm pretty impressed on what I do remember. That and the fact that I'm amazed that I still have the thinking capacity to reason on things that I didn't know and yet still managed to get the right answer. Which makes me wonder how on earth someone doing an accounting degree can't get the right answer...

The bonuses of work has been good. Already got my tech gears for work plus next week I'll be heading up to Auckland for a week of training.

What I'm really looking forward to is just starting work and starting to learn. I guess that's the difference between a desk monkey and a professional... the additional capacity in your job to think and develop to solve problems. I'm looking forward to the challenge.