It’s something I’m pretty good at, actually. Deriving meaning from columns of numbers, formatting for presentation, summarizing and drawing relationships between things, all that good stuff. As long as the numbers are solid, I’m happy.
On the other hand, whenever I spend an entire day (like today) going through spreadsheet after spreadsheet of labor charges, travel charges, non-labor non-travel charges, and try to figure out the reasons for variance from budget vs the reasons for variance from forecast, and determine what some particularly vague journal entry actually refers to, and ferret out why someone’s charging X to me when it should be charged to Y (but will be more costly to transfer to Y now that it’s charge to me than it’s worth) … and then try to figure out how to present it all more simply to my boss while still having all the data and explanations in my back pocket …
… I always get a sharp … pain … right … there …