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“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.” And burn black in the end.

That's the way I feel today. After several weeks of hard work, heated arguments and long hours on the phone with our partners the deal was finally signed. The first shipment is to arrive on the 10th of December. The bosses are off to celebrate, and I'm left here to clean up the documents.

All the glory is for the bosses, however I'm absolutely satisfied to achive so much in such a short period of time. That is the first contract I've made on my own.

... on the phone again

The advantage of a four-day weekend is that there's a chance to sleep a lot and the disadvantage is that the following working days are rather hectic.

We gathered all the papers to open an account in another bank and informed everybody to transfer the money to it. Unfortunatelly, some partners ignored the message and used an old account again, which means I now have more paperwork to do and phone calls to make. It is not going to be fun.

Fortunatelly, a new accountant starts on Monday, so I'll be dismissed from finances. And I go back to translating and negotiations. What a relief!

Thursday post

Yesterday was busy, but nice. First and foremost I transfered all money from the company's bank account, and we are now gathering documents to open an account in a new bank. The rush is over.

Secondly, I learnt how to reboot the server and activate the network in the office. After an hour of struggle it worked again and I felt like a superman... or superwoman :)

Thirdly, I downloaded five new episodes of "NCIS" and watched them all. I'm so happy to see Gibbs and his team back on the screen.

Finally, I officialy decided to look for a new job.

Office life

I'm a so-called "junior manager" in the company and have been getting acquainted with the trade for two months already.

The first thing that impressed me most was the organisation of documents circulation which had never existed and the papers had been piling up all around the office, so I had to sort them out somehow. I bought various files, folders, document cases, paper-cases etc, created several useful tables in Excel, registered and filed hundreds of letters, faxes, contracts, agreements, bills, invoices and so on. Finally, there were two neat lines of signed folders in the bookcases and I felt very complacent.

The second mission was to mail the letters that had been gathering for a month or so since my forerunner had left. That was much fun as I spoiled millions of envelopes before learning how to insert them in the printer correctly, later I discovered envelope stickers that made mailing much easier for me :)

The third mission is to arrange accounts and it's a disaster, as the way of keeping them is enough to turn your hair grey. I'm working through it for two days already and the end is nowhere in sight :(