[...] Monday? Oh, how I long for the easy life of Monday. The amount of work a couple hundred accountants can [...]

Finally I found a reasonably happy middle ground at a great company. These days my boss’ boss always asks me, “How’s your work-life balance?” out of genuine concern, which always makes me laugh. “Work-life balance” was one of the many terms that the HR types back at the accounting firms used to throw around casually, as if it actually had any meaning.

The smiling HR types would waltz in at 9am with starbucks lattes and leave promptly at 5, take off early on Fridays, and then send emails from their blackberries to all the accountants, reminding them of work-life balance.

I wish I’d had WoW back in those days. I could have pretended my opponents in arena were HR managers, with their evil time-consuming email surveys and empty promises … ZOMG I just realized something! ALL HR TYPES ARE BLOOD ELVES!! They ARE!! With their stylish haircuts, less than genuine smiles, maniacal laughs, and holier-than-thou mannerisms.**

Yes, RL > WoW… but sometimes there are stark parallels between the two.

**My apologies to any genuinely good people out there who happen to work as HR staff in accounting firms. It’s just that I haven’t met you.

Thank god for having an International Studies major, I much rather prefer not having marketable prospects or a job at all to that!