J for Journeys & goals along the way
J for Journeys and goals along the way
We are all on journeys - personal and professional and everyone's is different.
When I was a teenager in secondary school our career advice consisted of a small filing box with index cards in. You picked out a card and it told you what qualifications were required for that job. If additional qualifications were required it advised what these were. No-one was available to ask what you were good at and inspire you to think outside the box.
I was advised as a girl that an office job would be the way to go as there was always work for secretaries! Can you imagine a student being told that today??
I actually loved art and technical drawing but as the boys had taken all the places in the Technical Drawing class I was left with History which I hated at 'O' level - the Boar War!! Cue two years of mindless lessons wishing I was somewhere else.
I wasn't naturally gifted at Maths so I suppose I would not have considered Bookkeeping as a profession back then but I knew my times tables by heart, enjoyed technology and was a very organised person even back then.
When I got my own place and was earning a living I kept a little notebook and wrote down all my income and expenditure. I even had a little pocket stuck to the back inside page where I kept all the receipts. I guess this was me completing a Bank Reconciliation before I even knew that term.
Seems funny now with the age of mobile phones and computers but this was 1987!!
"If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well"
My grandmother always drummed this saying into me and my siblings. I still live by this and have applied it to all my many jobs - even cleaning a sink can give you satisfaction when it gleams!
Today it is the joy I get when a particularly tricky catch-up job has been finished and my client can see exactly where they are in their business or the end of year has been passed to an Accountant who is pleased with not having the mess to sort out themselves.
What has kept you on your journey? Have you taken many off'-shoots?
Any tips on setting goals and sticking to them?
Would love to hear your stories.
Maggie
www.purplebookkeeping.com
www.facebook.com/purplebookkeeping
We are all on journeys - personal and professional and everyone's is different.
When I was a teenager in secondary school our career advice consisted of a small filing box with index cards in. You picked out a card and it told you what qualifications were required for that job. If additional qualifications were required it advised what these were. No-one was available to ask what you were good at and inspire you to think outside the box.
I was advised as a girl that an office job would be the way to go as there was always work for secretaries! Can you imagine a student being told that today??
I actually loved art and technical drawing but as the boys had taken all the places in the Technical Drawing class I was left with History which I hated at 'O' level - the Boar War!! Cue two years of mindless lessons wishing I was somewhere else.
I wasn't naturally gifted at Maths so I suppose I would not have considered Bookkeeping as a profession back then but I knew my times tables by heart, enjoyed technology and was a very organised person even back then.
When I got my own place and was earning a living I kept a little notebook and wrote down all my income and expenditure. I even had a little pocket stuck to the back inside page where I kept all the receipts. I guess this was me completing a Bank Reconciliation before I even knew that term.
"If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well"
My grandmother always drummed this saying into me and my siblings. I still live by this and have applied it to all my many jobs - even cleaning a sink can give you satisfaction when it gleams!
Today it is the joy I get when a particularly tricky catch-up job has been finished and my client can see exactly where they are in their business or the end of year has been passed to an Accountant who is pleased with not having the mess to sort out themselves.
What has kept you on your journey? Have you taken many off'-shoots?
Any tips on setting goals and sticking to them?
Would love to hear your stories.
Maggie
www.purplebookkeeping.com
www.facebook.com/purplebookkeeping
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