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magicicadaQ: when is writing slacking off from writing?
A: when you're supposed to be writing poetry and are instead pondering in your journal.
but i have ponderings to ponder, and thus i will share them with mydevoted followers fellow slackers. tax season is coming to an end and while i've had a lot of fun, it's time to start looking forwards. HRB requires 30 hrs of continuing education and there are a few major prereq courses that i should be eyeing, but... the office supervisor and a good part of my fellow tax preparers are trying to get me to take the EA course, and i'm seriously considering it. EA = Enrolled Agent, aka can represent a taxpayer before the IRS. that's the technical definition, but there's a lot of general bennies to the certification. it would be nice. i'm not sure that i'm quite ready for it, but one of the preparers who has taken the test said that it really is a matter of study books/take test and i'm good at that.
the real dilemma is that i still *should* take the more basic courses. however, the only course schedule that has been released has the ETR (Everyone's Tax Return) course in frigging garner. it was bad enough when i was required to go to garner a handful of times for training, but this would be 2 nights a week for 6 weeks. no way in hell. if they teach it later in the year, maybe. but right now, the home front needs a bit more tending to. i pick up laric at lunch time, so i end up a small lunch a bit early. i usually go to work around 2-4pm, so i eat a small dinner and then when i get home around 9:30-10, i have some kind of make up meal which has been picking up something on the way home the past few nights. it's not good in any sense and i'd like to have a bit of at home dinner time for a while. that and some simultaneous![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
h_postmortemus and sylvia time wouldn't be too bad either.
this is why i had pretty much decided that the early run of classes was not for me. however, a cow-orker pointed out a fact which i had somehow missed, as i was not intending to take the EA prep course. while it is a 36 hr course, it's only 1 day a week and it's at my absolute closest tax office (3 min away) and with the teacher who is renowned to be hands-down the absolute best. the downside - it goes from may to mid-august. the continuing courses only run till september when they all get shut down to teach the basic tax course. what this means is that if i'm to take the courses that i should be taking, i'd probably end up with classes 3 days a week and that's not going to happen. what i *think* i'm going to do is sign up for and take as much of the EA prep course as i can, and then when the ETR etc courses for the later part of the year get posted, just start skipping class a whole bunch. theoretically, there's no real downside as the course fee is a flat $30 for all of the courses i might want to take and the EA prep course has no final, as the EA exam stands in pretty darn well for that. hmm... much pondering to do.
p.s. this does not even contemplate courses for the whole appraiser thingy. although.... if i could fit that all into fall semester... ah, yes and then i'll enroll at NC State in the spring and see if i can start getting that second half of the bachelors knocked out, while working a part/full time job and doing taxes!
*blelblelbbelbleblebllee*
A: when you're supposed to be writing poetry and are instead pondering in your journal.
but i have ponderings to ponder, and thus i will share them with my
the real dilemma is that i still *should* take the more basic courses. however, the only course schedule that has been released has the ETR (Everyone's Tax Return) course in frigging garner. it was bad enough when i was required to go to garner a handful of times for training, but this would be 2 nights a week for 6 weeks. no way in hell. if they teach it later in the year, maybe. but right now, the home front needs a bit more tending to. i pick up laric at lunch time, so i end up a small lunch a bit early. i usually go to work around 2-4pm, so i eat a small dinner and then when i get home around 9:30-10, i have some kind of make up meal which has been picking up something on the way home the past few nights. it's not good in any sense and i'd like to have a bit of at home dinner time for a while. that and some simultaneous
h_postmortemus and sylvia time wouldn't be too bad either. this is why i had pretty much decided that the early run of classes was not for me. however, a cow-orker pointed out a fact which i had somehow missed, as i was not intending to take the EA prep course. while it is a 36 hr course, it's only 1 day a week and it's at my absolute closest tax office (3 min away) and with the teacher who is renowned to be hands-down the absolute best. the downside - it goes from may to mid-august. the continuing courses only run till september when they all get shut down to teach the basic tax course. what this means is that if i'm to take the courses that i should be taking, i'd probably end up with classes 3 days a week and that's not going to happen. what i *think* i'm going to do is sign up for and take as much of the EA prep course as i can, and then when the ETR etc courses for the later part of the year get posted, just start skipping class a whole bunch. theoretically, there's no real downside as the course fee is a flat $30 for all of the courses i might want to take and the EA prep course has no final, as the EA exam stands in pretty darn well for that. hmm... much pondering to do.
p.s. this does not even contemplate courses for the whole appraiser thingy. although.... if i could fit that all into fall semester... ah, yes and then i'll enroll at NC State in the spring and see if i can start getting that second half of the bachelors knocked out, while working a part/full time job and doing taxes!
*blelblelbbelbleblebllee*