Our steward starts tomorrow. Therefore I just spent the last hour picking up the house...
I have to admit I am a little nervous letting someone into our home unsupervised. But she seems really nice, and came with a recommendation letter, so we're going to give her a try. I mean, if she works out it'll be the most amazing deal of the century. She comes every weekday morning and does the dishes, makes the bed, picks up all the clothes, and lets the dogs outside. Then two days a week she also deep-cleans and does the laundry and ironing. Oh, and if we need her to go to the market to get us anything, we just give her money and she goes to get it. Which also means we pay less for things at the market since our steward is buying them and they don't know its some "Oyibo's" money. And we pay her $100 a month. Total. Joey and I felt guilty paying her so little, but its about the going rate around here, which is apparently considered a really good job. The average wage in Abuja is only $1 a day, so I guess since she's making six times that and gets free rent, she has a good gig. Regardless, we did lock up everything valuable just in case.
So the job I am working now is the one I applied for back in DC, as an accountant.
I have about a million things I want to blog about and I just keep getting side-tracked and its 11:30 at night here, so I suppose it'll have to wait for another day.
State's Office of Commissary and Recreation Affairs (I think that's the official name) oversees the commissary program and can be an excellent resource for setting up your accounting system. If you are not on the Intranet, you may not have seen their website yet. They are DC based but often have regional trainings and are great about answering emails with questions and requests for advice.
ReplyDeleteFor the instances where you run into something that E&Y didn't prepare you for, just remember Debits = Credits. That's gotten me pretty far in my career :)
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