Hectic time!

Wow, life has been coming at me at warp speed lately!

I had a big tax test due today, which I didn't have enough time to finish, mostly due to my life running at warp speed :P

Last Wednesday I went to the NDSU Career Fair, and lo and behold I found the recruiter for Eide Bailly. Now, a friend at work has been pulling some strings to get me into Eide Bailly, but they haven't been able to find the application! So I turn in a couple resumes (2 sides to Eide Bailly - Accounting and Technology), and now they sent me a new paper application and I have an interview this Thursday! Did I mention that one of the recruiters interviewed me (twice) and hired me at SEI when I worked there?

2 job fairs this past week, 1 the week before, and I gave out 20 resumes. When I tell people that, the first thing they say is "Why didn't you hand out more? That's the best you could do??" - but I thought it was pretty good. Especially considering I talked to more than 20 employers, and now I need to follow up with most of them (i.e. applying online...)

Are job fairs a thing of the past? Almost every employer I talked to said "I'll take your resume, but go apply online now, here's an informational brochure on how to do that." The government jobs were handing out websites that aren't available on the public website, and other companys were asking us to enter special codes so they can track them easier. Why not just plop all these codes and links in an e-mail, send it to all students - BAM, job fair over!

I REALLY want to get into Mayo Clinic in Rochester too... And if I get this Eide Bailly job it'd be in Bloomington... so perhaps living halfway between wouldn't be the worst idea in the world? For in case the tides change in the future... (that and I refuse to live in the heart of the metro, and houses are too expensive there anyway)

Job Fair

3:00 a.m. - Alarm goes off. Time to get up! (So I rolled over and went back to sleep til like 3:50)

Why so early? University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is hosting a job fair for all U of M campuses, and since I'm on the Crookston campus, I get to go! Since 40 or more people signed up from Crookston for a bus, we get free transportation too! Only thing is I live like 45 minutes from Crookston...

Bus leaves at 6 and returns at like 10pm tonight, so it'll be a long, long day...

But getting all dressed up does bring back some BPA memories.... :)

WISH ME LUCK!!! :)

Tax time!

Filed my taxes last week. Getting some good money back. At least I consider $600 to be good :)

Then the next day came. Turns out Coca-Cola messed up on my original W-2, so they had to send out a new one. The DAY after I filed. No monetary changes, just a little checkbox changed. So I've been hoping all would be well with that...

I'm starting to get excited for this service learning project we're doing at school coming up. As part of our tax class, we will be participating in an AARP program to prepare taxes for the seniors and middle to lower income.

Middle income defined: Less than $100,000 per year! What is this world coming to! The MIDDLE is $100,000! Last year, I made like $25,000 (give or take).

So as part of this program, the IRS and AARP came in today to give a seminar. On the down side, we get 2 whole days of classroom training on how to do this stuff. On the bright side, we get a week off of regular tax class to make up for it, and to take the take-home test. That's right, a really thick book as a take-home test. Please note, paid tax preparers do not need to take any sort of test to start preparing taxes...

One more day of training, then the massive test, then I'll be certified to be a volunteer tax preparer! Hoo-ray!

And DON'T FORGET TO TAKE YOUR TELEPHONE EXCISE TAX CREDIT!!! - you're elegible pretty much if you've made a long distance call in the past couple years (somehow 44 months comes to mind?). You don't even have to prove it, you can take a standard amount (30, 40, 50, or $60). Look into it. Even ask me about it. Just don't forget this FREE MONEY!

Oh, and if you're still wondering, I did ask the IRS lady about my W-2 thing, and no I don't have to file an amended return.

There, hopefully I won't be talking tax so much now. Perhaps this will be the most boring post ever! (certainly the most boring post to date!)

First Post!

So, whaddya want me to say anyway? I've been horrible at keeping people up to date with the happenings of my life, partly because I think it's pretty boring to tell the same story over and over and over again, and then I forget who I told what to, etc. etc. etc. And who wants to read about "Wow, I went to school, I took a 3 hour nap, then I went to work, then i went home and slept all day long" every single day anyway?

Graduated from Red Wing High School in 2000 and from the Tech College in Red Wing in 2001. Now, a UNIVERSITY DEGREE! At last! In May, I'll get a Bachelors degree in Accounting (with a minor in Information Technology Management). I really need to start a countdown :)

-26F this morning, and hence my car did not start. Kinda like the whole "did the groundhog see it's shadow?" question with a lot more predictability. If it's cold, and i didn't go out to start it in the middle of the night, it won't start. Simple!

Anyway, that's it for now. Tell me what you want to hear!