When I was a consultant in Chicago, my accountant – Marc Winer, who's just an awesome guy and a pretty good accountant – got me believing that QuickBooks Pro was the way to go. And I was a disciple, too. I reconciled monthly, figured out the arcane splits feature, and even did payroll, all in QuickBooks. It was easy; it made sense to me in a way that made me happy to use it.
That was 2001. This is 2009. And in 2009, I absolutely hate QuickBooks. Not that much has changed with the software, but (apparently) a lot has changed with me. I'm not the QBB Ninja that I once was, and I find myself fighting with it far more than loving it ... which showed in how diligently I kept it up to date with what was happening in my bank account.
It's easy to think that we don't change over the years, that we remain pretty much static over time. I'm as handsome now as I was 10 years ago, and my weight is only about 10 pounds greater (though, at that rate, I'll be in I-wash-myself-with-a-rag-on-a-stick territory by age 60). But in this one area, at least, I've regressed, and I've really got to work on that.
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