The Intern Adventure 6: Third Friday

The third week was fun. I am getting more comfortable with my job and I am getting closer to my colleagues (although I am such a quiet girl working so hard in her desk and not talking so much). Even if I do not talk a lot, I still enjoy the firm that I am working with and its employees.

This week, I was assigned to do the bookkeeping for two restaurants, and an energy corporation. I can say that the highlight of my week was the three days that I have spent working on the T2200s (Declaration of Condition of Employment) of 57 employees of the energy corporation that I was working on. After spending almost three hours sorting a lot (when I say "a lot", that was really A LOT), of pay stubs of those 57 employees (who had been seriously paid really good) and spending a whole working day for entering the data from their pay stubs, I finally reached the final stage - the actual completion of T2200s. To be honest, it was not the filling up of forms that was complicated, but the whole process. I have to double-check the figures and the SIN numbers (for three times) of employees for three times for two reasons: first, the amounts that I have to report on the forms and the employees' SIN numbers were sensitive and simply cannot be wrong; second, I was so happy that my senior colleague, Verna, has let me do that task and I just did not want to fail her. And my reward? A tap at the back. When I got that from my senior colleague, it was so priceless, especially when she told me that I did a good job. :)

Oh, and the funniest thing about this week was when I used the typewriter - yes, a typewriter. I just thought it was funny because when Verna asked me if I was sure that I was really okay about using the typewriter and I said "yes", she told me that I was supposed to say "no". LOL. But I actually had fun, I have never seen a typewriter as fancy as that. The keys were like that of a computer and you can actually delete anything that you wanted to delete. I was actually able to take a picture of it and here it is:

See? Quite fancy, right? Or it's just me who hasn't seen one before? Haha.

Earlier I started working on the bookkeeping for a bbq restaurant and I like it. :) I just hope that I can do better things for that restaurant (aside from bookkeeping) and do the more complicated stuff - such as GST filing. 

Accounting is really not for everyone. I cannot imagine some of my friends, even my sister, doing the things that an accountant does for the rest of their lives. I consider myself lucky for being into the accounting major and I am more excited to the more challenging stuff that are waiting for me. :)