Spånga scout club annual general meeting. An hour and a half of the kind of unexciting formality that is nevertheless absolutely necessary for democracy: approving the profit and loss statement and balance sheet, electing new board members, voting on a budget. I’m continuing in my role as (unelected) accounting assistant. I’d go nuts if I had to sit in regular board meetings and debate or spearhead projects, but I am happy to contribute in this kind of routine, introverted way.

Spånga scout club is one of the largest in Sweden (someone mentioned we might be #3?) so keeping the ship going is a fair bit of work. My role didn’t even exist before I took it on: the (elected) treasurer used to do alone what is now split between three people. Now we have one treasurer who thinks about finances on a strategic level and sits on the board, one accounting assistant (me) who does the day-to-day grunt work of accounting and paying bills, and one person who deals with applying for various state and local grants to keep us afloat.