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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.<\/p>\n

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 …<\/p>\n

… I always get a sharp … pain … right … there <\/em>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-jollies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12680,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/27\/earned_my_pay_for_the_wee.html","url_meta":{"origin":10834,"position":0},"title":"Earned my pay for the week","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 27-Feb-08 7:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"So, as I periodically scribe here, whenever I delve into the depths of budgets and forecasts and actuals and so forth, I usually end up with a huge migraine,...","rel":"","context":"In "Job Jollies"","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11885,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/lets_run_the_numbers.html","url_meta":{"origin":10834,"position":1},"title":"“Let’s run the numbers …”","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 9-Jan-08 5:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Got sucked into working on a big spreadsheet today, which goes to my boss next week for a review of my department.\u00a0 Pulling all sorts of stats from various systems,...","rel":"","context":"In "Job Jollies"","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9333,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/26\/mama_said_there.html","url_meta":{"origin":10834,"position":2},"title":"Mama said there’d be days like this …","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Jul-06 8:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, so I should have known the day was going to be difficult when ... 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