The Only Office Job I Ever Held

I wasted six months for paychecks. Lesson learned; never again!

They never clearly defined what my responsibilities were. A friend of mine recommended me and they hired me. All I knew was that I was to work on the computer. Doing what? I did not understand. I was to work in an office where my friend was an accountant. This was 1989, and I knew nothing about computers or accounting. But I assumed they would train me. I am a quick learner, and I know I am good with numbers.

I learned later, six months later when I was let go, that they assumed I was a computer whiz. I was supposed to perform data entry of a backlog of accounting that was done haphazardly by hand on the old ledger system.

Needless to say, neither I nor they gained anything out of the relationship. I wasted six months doing nothing, and they wasted six months of payroll. It was weird, and to this day I do not understand why they hired me in the first place.

If anything, I learned that I would never ever work in an office again.

This is a retroactive response to the SCBWI writing prompt of which I missed the first seven days last month. Amy Marley did it last month. I joined her along with a few others later in the month. I took it upon myself to do the first seven days retroactively.

As always, thank you for reading and responding.

More about me:

Rasheed Hooda is a published author and a regular contributor to ILLUMINATION, a writers’ community on Medium where writers support each other.

He is a self-proclaimed weirdo who lives a Freedom Lifestyle and writes about related topics — Travel (a top writer), Personal Growth, Freedom, and entrepreneurship. (Get the Newsletter)

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