Day One: Office Administrator...or "Did they pay us yet?"

I have never been a morning person. I believe mornings should start at noon. I think there should be magic elves (or magical little-people, for you P-C crowd) that all they do is bring you coffee while you fight with the alarm. The Alarm. I will never know how my coordination is so bad that I run into walls, trip UP stairs, and fall down while standing still, but in the dead of sleep, I can accurately slap a 2 centimeter button on my phone to shut down the wailing alarm for five minutes of "Snooze" time.

I am also aware that this "Megan doesn't do mornings" thing has come to a violent end. Not just a whimper, but an "ohmigod we don't have any breaks in this 1950 Cadillac and we're careening down a steep mountain pass oh no there's a cliff aaaaaaahhhhh BOOM" kind of end. Megan is now a (reluctant) morning person. Sorta. I allowed myself time to go to McDonald's for an iced coffee. I got to work right when I planned - 9:30 a.m. I was allowed to create a schedule for myself and I figured 9:30 to 4 (allowing time for my standing evening appointments on M, T, and Th) would give me 6 hours on those days.

Day One: You are the office administrator. You work for a single attorney who has a contract attorney who shares the office set up...and you. You order supplies. You take care of the money. You do the billing. And you do this all while answering phones.

Today I get a crash course in where everything is in the office. Got it? (no!) Good, moving on. We're going to billing. And expenses. We keep double books. Everything goes into one, but not everything goes into the other. Client related - Amicus and Quickbooks. Office related - Only Quickbooks. Got it? Uhhhhhhhhh. Good, moving on...

In all honesty my trainer was my mom. I'm replacing her. So I know I can ask her if I need help when she's gone. But today...my head hurts. Can I do something easy like...uh...don't make me open the mail...there are checks in there!!! Ahhhhhhhhh!

I survive Day 1. Mostly because the Attorney is out of town so he can't bug me every 10 minutes.