I found Quick Books on sale for half off. I’ve known for a while we were eventually going to need to switch over to it for our business accounting, so we bought a copy.
I put off installing it for a week, even though I knew that was silly. Today I finally installed the thing. Holy Cow.
This feels like looking at Photoshop for the first time. There are a million functions and I don’t know what any of them does. Only with photoshop, I only had to worry about screwing up a digital photo. No problem. With this thing, I have to worry about screwing up our finances/taxes and our accounting to clients/the government. I can’t just start pushing buttons. The thing is freaking scary.
I think I’m going to stick with Quicken for a while. It’s easy to use, and does everything I am legally responsible for doing, even if I have to do extra work to put our tax stuff together.
I predict I’m going to procrastinate even setting up the files until the first of the year. Minimum.
Because today I’m too scared of it to even run the tutorials.
(Also, I wrote a prologue today. It was the first thing I’ve written in a month. I don’t know if I’ll write any more of it. But that was the first time I’ve written because I wanted to (instead of because I have to meet some goal, or produce some product) in the last (can it be?) several years. So that’s something.)
