And then there was one…

No I’m not referring to the number of OD users not to have crossed over to Prose whatever it’s called

My regular readers know this, but to recap: 3 years ago I started working in this Finance Dept and it consisted of 1 Comptroller, 1 Senior Accountant, and 3 staff accountants (including yours truly). We were quite the dream team and easily got the work done. Most of this past year we’ve managed the 2 hospitals’ finances with a skeleton crew of 1 Comptroller, 1 Senior Accountant, and 1 staff accountant (yours truly)

A couple weeks ago the Senior Accountant left. The Comptroller and I were set to face the most challenging task of our careers, and manage the 2 hospitals’ finances ourselves

And I’ve been trying to figure out what my personal next step should be. My wife is pregnant and literally about to pop. I mean the baby was so low this morning, I’m 99.9% sure tomorrow she’ll be in labor. So accepting this challenge, and potentially claiming this Senior Accountant vacancy may be overwhelming for me since I constantly battle high blood pressure and my focused priority will be the newborn son since I’ve never had kids before

I knew there was a lesson to be learned in this. There’s always a lesson in hardships because God’s timing is perfect! Lately I’ve felt what was meant for me to do was to continue at a staff accountant position and focus my energy on my son. Later maybe these higher positions will be available and I can grab one at that time. But for my personal health (both physically and mentally) I shouldn’t overwhelm myself at this moment

Then last week, the Comptroller announced he has also resigned and gave his one month’s notice

So I was wrong. I picked the wrong horse. That was not the lesson I was to learn. This time next month it may just be me holding down the fort for two hospitals. I won’t be able to continue coasting in my career in a position that’s just real easy to me now. Nope, have to man up both at home and in the office too. I needed this kick in the pants to get me to

The CFO may bring a couple people from his past to interim at the moment, but right now it looks like I’m going to be trained to take the reins. My boss (soon-to-be former boss) told me it won’t be like going from 1 to 10 in an instant, they’ll gradually increase what I do until I get it all

And presumably (and hopefully) they’ll fill these empty offices with staff accountants in the process too

moral of the story: Forget compensating me just for the new responsibilities and tasks I’ll be handed, you think it’ll be easy to convince a new dad to work 12 hour days away from his son? Show me the money! 

Have a Nice Day!