What’s new on 9 to 5

Let me apologize to all of you because I always fail to update this blog. I must admit that I have other blogs i update more regularly. This one, since a specialized blog of mine, gets to be updated when something’s happened that will fall under this category. Or I recall something from my past experience that I would like to share.

While I was talking to my cousin, I realized that I might as well mix in another topic to this blog… personal savings! No, I won’t be starting a frugal blog because I am far from frugal. But I want to focus more on a person’s savings, account and all that.

I had this blog about money matters. I lost track of it. Since it’s now homeless, I might as well fuse that blog and the content of this blog together.

That’s the new 9 to 5 blog!

Continuing professional education

If you are a professional, you know for a fact that you have a responsibility to make sure you enhance your knowledge of your profession. You can’t go on working and not know the latest in your field. This holds true specially for licensed professionals like accountants.

Hoven.com is offering CPA and CPE courses as well as continuing education credits. This is necessary to renew an accountant’s professional license. Each year, an accountant is required to earn continuing professional education (CPE) credits and, of course, it needs to be accepted by the Board of Accountancy for it to count.

In my case, I have found I need cpe courses on tax updates more than the others. My best friend has been soaring high in his career because he’s been going the extra mile by grabbing at anything that will further his knowledge of his profession. He was asked to do a lecture at his alma mater and he said it aptly, never become too complacent. Always be vigilant and know more than competition.

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My life: Nine to five

When I was still conceptualizing this blog, I thought of a blog that will chronicle my 10-year stint in the corporate world. Not too many years to draw stories from but I’ve been to different (diverse) companies. Different industries and difficult situations. Office politics, which I was naive enough to think as competitiveness, played a big role in my early (if not, temporary) goodbye to the rat race they call work.

I’ve worked for…

• a recruitment agency
• a BPO/Accounting firm
• a trading company (buy and sell of home items)
• a manufacturing company (clothing)
• an online store company (ecommerce)
• an investments company focusing on talent management
• a graphics company
• a call center company with headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska
• another investments company this time focusing on real estate (horizontal) development, a Science park in the South, and an eco park in the North
• another call center company this time with headquarters in Brisbane, Australia.

Can you now say that I’ve been there? Right!

I’ve had ups and downs like an ordinary employee. I’ve had my fair share of gossips, intrigues, politics, bad bosses, bad co-workers, and almost every thing that happens in an office environment.

There is a big possibility that I will go back to that world I left behind three years ago. I have goals for the next three years and it involves a lot of funds. Going back to the rat race would mean an additional income for me. So I have to bite the bullet and brace myself for the onslaught of office negativity again.

Off for October

I was off for the whole month of October. I apologize for that. I have some other things I needed to attend to. Coupled with the fact that I didn’t feel like blogging, thus, no entries for that month.

But now I am back. Hopefully, I can sustain this comeback. I have a lot of entries ready to be published now. I hope I still have you to rely on to read it