Administrative Duties

It's funny how your - or at least my - outlook on administrative tasks differs when it's my own company versus working for someone else. As an example, at one point in my short-lived corporate career I was asked to go through and make some changes to the sales database. It was absolutely mindless data entry work and while I obviously did it, it wasn't something I enjoyed doing and more or less simply slogged through it until the job was done. Now however, in preparation for this upcoming tradeshow I received approx 600 names of retailers who will be there and fit a specific industry category. I spent all of last night making changes to the database, cross-referencing with websites to see if the companies really did fit my product offering, and making other small changes. It took several hours and yet because it was my own company, I was really excited to go through the list and see what was there. Every name is a potential new retailer for my company's product which will help the product grow and the brand gain strength. Not to mention that every new retailer helps the bottom line. I can't imagine what my attitude would have been at my old company if I were asked to spend a Saturday night going through a database, but when it's my company I really enjoyed the task.

So, Saturday night was spent doing database work and most of today will be spent making some minor changes to my QuickBooks (per the accountants request). Wild weekend here let me tell you!