Accounting does not raise a great burst of enthusiasm in my heart. I have to confess that although I need to do my online course in accounting for non-accounting managers, there are days when I simply cannot make myself start the module I am studying. However, I have noticed, particularly recently when I am coming to the end of the online course, that once I have steeled myself to start, I become engrossed in the work, and don't want to finish until I have worked through the topic I am studying.
For me, the great thing is that I have really started to benefit from the course. I find that I am much more prepared to tackle work that has a financial thread to it, and I understand the finances of a client company much more thoroughly. This is invaluable, allowing me to give much better advice to my clients, and it is changing the way that I view my own company as well.
Studying online can be a nuisance when I have already worked a full day, but I find that if I have scheduled my day I just go and do the study automatically. I have even started to get up earlier, and study for around 1.5 hours before I go to work. This gives me the illusion that I haven't used my own time for study, and the benefit is that if I am studying a topic that I can use with a client, I have the subject fresh in my mind.
Just thought I'd do an update on my progress on my own online courses. I've been slogging away at Turkish for beginners for around 4 months now. I don't have much talent for languages, and Turkish is a language with very little similarity to English, so no help there.
However, I do enjoy this course. One of the reasons is that I can spend as much time as I need over each section, and can go back to a previous section to do a reprise of anything I have "lost". This is particularly useful as the pronunciation of letters is so different in Turkish, and the online package has sound as well as written parts.
I'm now at a stage where I need practice in conversation, more than any online course can give me. I am lucky enough to know several native Turkish speakers who have volunteers (at the price of a home-cooked supper) to come round for a Turkish conversational evening. I have a feeling that they will also bring several bottles of Buzbag - a Turkish red wine, so either the conversation will flow, or we will think that we understand each other without the need for any language.
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