Well, I guess it serves me right for whining about how I didn't have enough to do. Today, Elena "resigned" from her role as bookkeeper. She and Landers let me know how happy they are with my work and that they feel comfortable letting me handle all aspects of the books at this time. This is not really that much of a change from before. I just have to track the progress of all jobs and bill accordingly, and also make sure that the basic monthly obligations for the business are met. Landers and Elena both get paid a set amount out of the business each month, and I'll continue to cut them both checks as before. The only real difference is that now I'm in charge of incoming money as well. I'll be taking deposits to the bank and also following up on late accounts. Essentially, I just can manage the books now rather than running what I'm doing by Elena for approval.
In accordance with my new position, I'm now also working 20 hours a week! I think that I could do it on 15, but who am I to argue? I can definitely use the extra money, and I don't think it will be that big of a deal to work one more hour each day. I was already using a lot of extra time on phone calls, so now I'll just get paid for them.
I'm really pleased about this change. It makes me feel like they appreciate how hard I'm working.
Note: I need to get Landers' calendar online. He has a lot of appointments for bids and quotes, and he calls me at least 10 times a day to find out where he is supposed to be and when he is supposed to be there. If I had it online, he could just check it on his Blackberry or I could summarize the day and email it to him each morning.