Finance Essentials for Small Business and a Personal Experience

 

I enjoy volunteering for a variety of organizations. In the past, I've volunteered time to the East Troy Railroad Museum, Helenville Fire Department, Milwaukee Astronomical Society, Milwaukee Makerspace, Beer Baron's of Milwaukee, and other related organizations. Often times, there is a call for people to volunteer as treasurer at these organizations. I've wanted to step up and fill this need, but I'm apprehensive about my accounting skills.

In the past, I attempted to start my own business. It was a failure. It's demise was a combination of poor planning and a total lack of bookkeeping. With this failure always in the back of my mind, how can I step forward and volunteer to be a treasurer? Although I'm good at math, I suck at accounting.  It's time to do something about this gap in my skills. I'm taking the Become a Bookkeeper series on LinkedIn Learning. I just completed the course on "Finance Essentials for Small Business" and passed the test earning me a certification from the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy  How valuable this certification is, I don't know. But I do know that I learned a lot from this course and I'm looking forward to the next one entitled "Running a Profitable Business: Understanding Cash Flow."  

On a personal note, this course has made me feel a lot better about my previous failure as a roofing contractor. The mistakes I made, are quite common to new businesses. 

Back to work and an interview!

Going back to work today for my regular 4 day rotation. I have to go to work early for an interview at 14:00 with a panel of 5 for a Software Specialist working with GE Proficy Systems. Looking forward to the interview and potentially doing something new.


I wanted to take the Dart to work with the new wireless charger installed, but I was low on petrol and I didn't want to risk being late for my interview jimmy jackin around at the gas and sip! So I took the truck to work.


I think the interview went well and I'm eager to hear who got the job. There are two spots available.


On my break I ordered a second wireless charger for the truck and a short micro USB charging cable. Now I don't have to feel like I'm missing something driving the truck instead of the car. Below is a link to the wireless charger I'm buying. This is the second one I've purchased and I think it's worth it.

Ray Albarelli - Sorin| Carbomedics Reduced Mechanical Bileaflet Heart Va...

Here is the sound of my mechanical heart valves. They are pretty loud when I'm alone in my room, often times keeping me awake at night. I didn't use any special equipment to record this, just my Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and the voice recorder app.

Bicycle ride

I rode 7 kilometers.

Bear and I looking down on the beehives.

 Barak and I went for a bike ride today. We rode out to Palm Mushroom Cellar because they are hiring and Bear is thinking about working there. I kind of wanted to see how far of a ride it was to see how viable it would be for him to ride there if he got hired.

Beehives down on the south side of HWY 18

While we were riding, I spotted a bunch of beehives we never noticed before. I had to stop and take a picture of them.

The Fallen Kingdom

Didn't get outside as much as I would have liked. As I said in an earlier post, it was slow start to the day. That may have been because of the temperature, it started out hot, hitting a high of 80 yesterday, but then go a lot cooler in the afternoon, later hitting a low of 47.

I played some Neverwinter on the Xbox One and then later I purchased Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom on Vudu for the sale price of $14.99. See my full review of the Fallen Kingdom here.

Slow start to the day.

Woke up about 8 am and paid bills. Exciting morning! Took some time to sleeve and inventory my new Planeswalkers cards.  I had a yummy sandwich made with Cajun spiced turkey deli meat and horseradish.

My last short term disability check, lunch at the Rock Bottom Eatery, and games at Planet Chaos.

My short term disability checks from Prudential, are small, and don't seem to arrive at a consistent time every week. So I was happy to see my last check arrive today. The Bear and I drove to Jefferson, deposited my check and ate at the Rock Bottom Eatery.

 Bear has a Pepsi and I enjoyed a Badger Club Amber during my meal and a Happy Glamper afterwards. The keg gave up the last of it's contents during my pour, so the Lakefront Brew was a bonus freebie for me!! Yay!

After lunch we went to WalMart, picked up some milk, lunch meat, bread, a chocolate cake, and a Planeswalker Deck.  I couldn't resist a deck called the Pirate Minotaur!

I came home, ate some chocolate cake, played Neverwinter on the PS4, started a Neverwinter character on the PC, and took a nap.

At 5pm, Bear and I drove to Fort Atkinson to play some Dungeons & Dragons at Planet Chaos.