Better tired than not

I came up with that expression a few months back when I noticed that everytime I had client meetings I'd be dead tired after. And heck I'm NOT complaining, it's quite the opposite. I'm actually REJOICING! Why? Coz that means money coming it, which is a good thing. Whenever there's less calls and less meetings that means there's no moolah, simple as that. So I would rather stand on a bus for an hour like I did today after my client meeting than sit around in the office. It truly is such a good feeling.

But, (yes, there's a but) the money coming in isn't for vacations. No no no. It's to pay for all the BILLS. Yes, I think that's what my world revolves around most of the time. Chasing payment due dates and trying to amass that sum to pay for it. I'm just glad and thankful that it works out fine. But I wonder sometimes, will they ever end?

Thank goodness for SpreadSheets!

For the longest time, I have been avoiding spreadsheets. The idea of having to fill in all these boxes are kind of intimidating and I thought it was tedious. So when I did computations, I resorted to using a calculator to do everything which in my case was reliable since I checked my work 3 or 4 times. But I realized it was time consuming having to re-check my work when I could have had a computer program do it for me in a quarter of the time. Yes, I am a late bloomer and I feel like a fool actually. But hey, better late than never right?

Before, I used to make around 30 rows and 6 columns on a Word document, and everytime I needed an extra column or row I'd have to add another one. Last week, I had to make a spreadsheet with 200+ rows so I just could not be bothered to make so many and at the same time compute with a calculator! So I decided to try out the spreadsheet. It took me around 6 working days to get everything done, or an equivalent of 3 working days if I didn't have to multi-task. Imagine how long it would have taken if I did it manually. I'd go crazy PERIOD. Lol. And I just found out, I can compute hours and minutes too. I actually have more time to actually do OTHER stuff now. Life just got a whole lot easier with spreadsheets!