So at some point last year I read a web novel where a mortal from earth found himself in a cultivation world by getting caught up in a lunch run by cultivators and ended up becoming what is essentially an office worker in return for cultivation resources. He had to make sense of cultivation notes that people sent in and make them legible for what I think was the Celestial bureaucracy. Does this ring any bells for anyone else. Thanks for the help, Darkfirehunter
So I finally found the proper search string and I'm a little sad. (really really sad) It turns out that what I was remembering was an unfinished quest on Sufficient Velocity called White Collar Cultivator. I know there was something similar that made me look for another like it in the first place that allowed me to originally find White Collar Cultivator but am not sure of anything about it so that's kind of useless.
Thanks man! I thought I had scoured SV for good stuff already but every now and then stuff like this pops out. Even if it is on hiatus, 140k words should be a decent read.