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Job Hunting Update: Temp Job
Nov. 7th, 2013 07:42 pmIt seems quite likely that I will be working for the tax prep company with whom I am currently taking a course. And I will get to work at the branch that is in walking distance of my house.
The Client Service Leader for that office just wrote "I’ve been hearing some great things about you and hope that you’d consider working in our office. I should be in Austin on Monday, November 11, 2013 and look forward to meeting you and others in your class."
My instructor said that he is going to be at the same branch and he will be mentoring us. He told me and the gal who is better than me that he would be fast-tracking us so we would not just be working with people with 1040EZ forms the first year.
Woo hoo! Ten bucks an hour! For many, many weeks!
Ahem, of course I still have to pass the final. So far I have a 95%, so it seems likely.
And I have to finish this last module, the longest one of them all. I'm running out of steam, but I guess I'll be fine.
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Now I'm just wondering if I'll like the job. To me, the hardest part of doing my taxes is getting all the numbers together--keeping track of all the forms that come in the mail as well as any relevant receipts. So all the customers still have to do that themselves. That seems pretty unlikely. What's it really going to be like?
People who do this type of work seem to feel like they get to help people to do things that they need to do but either don't want to or don't know how to, and that it's interesting finding out about the lifestyles of their fellow man. They don't seem to feel that they are always telling people to go home and search for some more papers and make another appointment. Nor do they feel they are always giving people bad news, like people who didn't have taxes withheld from their unemployment or people who started self-employment but didn't know about estimated payments.
I did learn that we are allowed to (and have to) refuse to do forms that we know involve lying, and if we learn about problems with earlier returns, we only have to tell the person about the problems we noticed and the possible consequences. There is no having to turn people into the IRS or call the police, and there is no having to lie because the customer is always right and/or they must get the biggest possible refund.
The Client Service Leader for that office just wrote "I’ve been hearing some great things about you and hope that you’d consider working in our office. I should be in Austin on Monday, November 11, 2013 and look forward to meeting you and others in your class."
My instructor said that he is going to be at the same branch and he will be mentoring us. He told me and the gal who is better than me that he would be fast-tracking us so we would not just be working with people with 1040EZ forms the first year.
Woo hoo! Ten bucks an hour! For many, many weeks!
Ahem, of course I still have to pass the final. So far I have a 95%, so it seems likely.
And I have to finish this last module, the longest one of them all. I'm running out of steam, but I guess I'll be fine.
**
Now I'm just wondering if I'll like the job. To me, the hardest part of doing my taxes is getting all the numbers together--keeping track of all the forms that come in the mail as well as any relevant receipts. So all the customers still have to do that themselves. That seems pretty unlikely. What's it really going to be like?
People who do this type of work seem to feel like they get to help people to do things that they need to do but either don't want to or don't know how to, and that it's interesting finding out about the lifestyles of their fellow man. They don't seem to feel that they are always telling people to go home and search for some more papers and make another appointment. Nor do they feel they are always giving people bad news, like people who didn't have taxes withheld from their unemployment or people who started self-employment but didn't know about estimated payments.
I did learn that we are allowed to (and have to) refuse to do forms that we know involve lying, and if we learn about problems with earlier returns, we only have to tell the person about the problems we noticed and the possible consequences. There is no having to turn people into the IRS or call the police, and there is no having to lie because the customer is always right and/or they must get the biggest possible refund.