You probably notice the irregularity of my entries. Well, something consumes me.
If you are a regular to this blog, you would hit it straight that this is and will be the very few times that I would talk about work. I am normally consumed by it and its level of normalcy is fine. However, I am in the (recurring) phase where it eats me. I even see some of my workmates in my dreams (yes!). I do not get to finish even a single pending read from my bookshelf in the past five months, I only have the luxury to comb my hair once a day (that is after the bath), and a number of small and big things. But, I do not complain. I love my job. It is just that… it kills my energy to blog. Hahaha. Well, that exactly explains the scarcity of my entries.
I still pause whenever I am innocently inquired of how I find the time to blog and why I do it. I am not being paid to blog, I am not obliged to write for anyone. However, it came to a point that I felt and I still do, that strange sense of urgency to be connected with the different kind of people in the blogosphere, most of whom I do not know personally, by coming up with new posts that I am not obliged to share but I feel like sharing AND by catching up on what they share, too (including those who do not even know that my blog exists). To state simply, it is because of the passion to write. That explains, too, why people still find the time to travel, bake, read, and the list goes on, no matter how busy they are. This brings me to think about my job, that after all these years, I kept embracing. To the extent that I realized that it is a calling.
(Screenshot taken in January 2009. It surprised me that one of the google searches that led to this site was this. Somebody wants to kill us! But sorry to disappoint you, we are immortals.)
Yesterday, a workmate told me (while in a struggling situation) that she does not like to be in my shoes because everyone hates us (and in fact she is one of them, huh). Well, I really do not believe in that. I am sure that at least auditors do like each other + the very few (you know who you are) appreciate us. Seriously, I do not take offense because I am used to it. It is quite lengthy to explain, but it is like this: arguing with an auditor is like wrestling a pig in mud, suddenly you realize that the pig is enjoying itself.
It is a wonder when we find reason in times of complication. No matter what, at the end of the day, we will keep coming back to the people and things we endear.
What are the things that you would still like to do even if it is almost against all odds?
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kayni
i hear ya. work is killing me these days, but amidst all that, i blog to de-stress and let out steam.
enjoy and relax this weekend.
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witsandnuts
On the same boat. I took note of Angeli’s comment that we blogged about our love for blogging around the same time. I am yet to check your entry. I have not bloghopped yet.
Yes, I am enjoying the weekend. I hope you do, too. 🙂
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Photo Cache
i work 8 hours a day infront of the computer. and it’s boring, tedious, tiresome. yet when i break for lunch or go home after dinner, i still face the computer screen to blog. my hubs doesn’t understand that while the computer screen represents stress it also represents release from stress when i blog or bloghop.
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witsandnuts
I sometimes take an “online leave”. Unbelievable but it stresses me when I can not blog and bloghop. Haha.
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angeli
it’s interesting how you and kayni are writing about the same thing at around the same time: your love of blogging. 🙂
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witsandnuts
Really? I haven’t bloghopped yet. I have at least 300 unread feeds in my google reader. 😦
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Josiet
Been busy also this week but I miss blogging so much that I had to take a break and blog. Haha!
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witsandnuts
I like it when we take time to have a break when we are at our busiest… to blog. Heeeheee.
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lawstude
isang mapagpalayang pagbati sa araw ng ating kalayaan. mabuhay ang pilipinas. 🙂
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witsandnuts
Maligayang araw ng kalayaan!
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luna miranda
it’s possible i was the one who searched it (LOL). just kidding. i’m thankful that i can even check blogs at work–when under stress, some people would talk to a friend, go out and smoke, or whine at the pantry…i blog or bloghop.:p so even when work consumes us, the virtual connections we have in the www are just too hard to resist.
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witsandnuts
I actually traced the IP address of the google searcher. It turned out it was from the Philippines. But I am sure it is not you, haha. I agree, being online for a few minutes is a good means to destress.
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dyanie
di ko gets. bakit may mga taong hate kayo? eh hello nag wo work lang naman kayo no? siguro ayaw lang nila pa audit mga anomalya nila. hay naku jo. wag mo na sila intindihin. as long as you’re doing the right thing, you are on the right track. hugs jo!:)
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witsandnuts
Thanks, Dyanie. But seriously, it does not affect me/us. It is quite a talent that we do not care at all about what they think of us. Haha. I acknowledge though that we are difficult to deal with. Outside work is a different story. 😉
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witsandnuts
I forgot to respond to the part that why do we have haters. It is the nature of the job. Most of the time we hate being policed, though we are not police(wo)men. The auditor’s approach makes a big difference, too. There are those who are traditional, the hard to deal with. Hence, it affects the perception for the rest. But as I have said, we do not care at all. Walang personalan, trabaho lang.
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BlogusVox
It’s because your in love with blogging. As the saying goes… “When you’re in love, you give without expecting anything in return”.
I like your metaphor about the pig in the mud. You deal with numbers and however you see it, numbers don’t lie.
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witsandnuts
That’s right, because the passion is still there.
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Gremliness
You reminded me of my previous job where kulang na lang the auditors ay dapat magkaroon ng dedicated space kasi most months of the year they were in. At a time there were three groups, two for their ad hoc audits (I got to compare EY, KPMG and Deloitte, hehe). I wont say “How to kill auditors” but rather, “How to kill the need for audit” =). Attending to auditors has become rather a skill I think for me. One of the “resident” auditors became a good friend. We do friendly chats pero kung trabaho na, I have learned to “hide” things from her =)…
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witsandnuts
There will always be a need for the different types of auditors.
I am friends with some of my auditees (especially when I was still based in Makati). But we definitely avoid conflict of interest by maintaining an “independence in fact and in appearance”.
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sheng
Work is a killer, but one must relax and enjoy it or else, it will be a disaster thinking about work, even till home.
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witsandnuts
I leave work as soon as I go out of the office. But there are few times that they haunt me in my dreams. Haha. Enjoy the weekend!
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docgelo
passion in doing something keeps anyone going despite the odds. it may be blogging, it may be work or even play, for as long as we put our hearts into it, nothing else matters.
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witsandnuts
There are things that we love doing just because. It doesn’t need a reason. Blogging is one of those.
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bw
auditors are just doing their jobs much like policemen. what people hate is audit and not auditors 🙂 some people are crazy to take it personal and that’s the big difference.
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witsandnuts
You hit it, they hate the audit itself and not us. I actually experienced being audited and I so hate it. Hahaha.
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Nebz
Inspiring. And funny. And so true. And so me. (I think it’s so us readers of your blog).
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witsandnuts
I didn’t expect that this post is going to be primarily inspiring. As I drafted this, it sounded funny inside my head, especially the part that I comb my hair once a day. Heehee.
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Nomadic Pinoy
I feel the same way as you do as to why we keep on blogging (even if I do it scarcely these days). My work also involves facing the computer most of the time but oddly enough, I face some relief facing it for at least an hour each night at home reading blogs and trying to think what to blog about.
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witsandnuts
An hour of bloghopping paves way for a great percentage of destressing. Re: what to post next, I remember my blogging phase when I even had a list of pending stuff to post. Haha.
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chyng
hahaha, this is hilarious. I also get some stuff like this. di ko na maalala.
what Im bothered most is when the IP of Office of the President address Malacanang + Sandigan Bayan + Senate of the Philippines appear in my StatCounter. Scary. Ayoko na magsulat again for any political issue ever!
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witsandnuts
I try to avoid political posts, too. But I can’t help it.
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chyng
ay mali yung 1st line ng comment ko.
sorry. Ü
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witsandnuts
No prob. This post is really funny and inspiring (to those into blogging)rolled into one. 😀
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