I hate dealing with invoicing. One of my least favorite parts of my job.

ND, I've been getting a lot of advice these days about farming out the parts of your job that cause you angst like this. Virtual assistants, it turns out, aren't even that expensive. And if you can spend more time enjoying what you do best, it ends up paying for itself.

Or so I'm told!

Right now it's not a lot of time on my job, it's just a pain. If things keep growing I'll look at bringing someone on to deal with my rental business and the portion of my business dealing with building turnkey SFX Computers.

One of the big issues for a lot of this is that it's pretty narrow focus and industry specific stuff and the invoicing is tied to writing estimates and project bids.

Yeah. ND needs minions. Pronto.

If a few of the projects that are on the horizon come through, then I may actually be able to afford minions.

almost of Laura Holt quality--and smiles don't get any better than that.

You guys made my day so much better. I had the suckiest day. All day long, phone call after phone call, fires to put out. And every single problem I had to fix was stuff that wasn't my fault or anything to do with me. And yet it became my problem. I'm tired and cranky, but less cranky now because of the sweet words.

Now to fix the little boys something to eat. My parents took my other son to basketball so I wouldn't have to go out again and I told these other 2 that eating out was not happening. So dogs and mac 'n cheese it is. Then Eureka and Anger Management.

All the ~ma in the world to your friends, sj. That poor new mom must be out of her mind with worry.

Thanks, JZ. She really is. She said she feels helpless, and I have no idea what to do to help other than to ask everyone I know for prayers and -ma.

I am attempting to stay away from the info on the interbunny, although I did a mild peek this morning.

Stay away, d. Once you know something, Google is your best friend, but without a diagnosis, you'll be worrying about every disease known to man. I did, anyway. I certainly hope it's not cancer, but many cancers are very treatable.

I hate dealing with invoicing.

Sing it, brother. In my case, I don't need minions. I need someone with a whip saying, "You vill do invoices and filing." And I don't mean that in a good way.

I like the end result of invoicing, the nice checks that arrive in the mail, it's just a drag putting all of that stuff together and actually getting it sent out. Thankfully I can now send almost all of my projects nice .pdf versions of invoices.

Are there really "virtual assistants" who do invoicing and such for different businesses? Because I have a friend who would be awesome at that.