The Worrying Job

Fresh out of business school, the young man answered 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 said.

- But mainly, I'm looking for someone to do my worrying for me.

- Excuse me? - the accountant said.

- I worry about a lot of things, - the man said.

- 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, - the accountant said.

- And how much does the job pay?

- I'll start you at eighty thousand.

- Eighty thousand dollars! - the accountant exclaimed.

- How can such a small business afford a sum like that?

- That, - the owner said, - is your first worry.