Your First Worry
Fresh out of business school, the young man answers a want ad for an accountant. Now he was being interviewed by a very nervous man who ran a small business that he had started himself.
"I need someone with an accounting degree," the man says. But mainly, I'm looking for someone to do my worrying for me."
"Excuse me?" the accountant says.
"Young man, I worry about alot of things," the man says, "But I don't want to have to worry about money., Your job will be to take all the money worries off my back."
"I see," replies the accountant. "And how much does this position pay?"
"Well, I'll start you off at eighty thousand, and we'll work from there."
"Eighty thousand dollars!" the accountant excalimed. "Just how can such a small business afford a sum like that?"
"That," the owner says, "is your first worry!"
Originally published June 09, 2005.
