Money, money, money…ain't it funny…

2018-10-30T02:25:54Z

It started out like any other Monday. Then about half an hour into my shift, my manager asked me to come to a conference room. I went more than a little nervously, my "principal's office" instincts acting up…then you could have knocked me over with the proverbial feather when I found out what she wanted.

About a month ago, she'd put me in for some kind of "job progression" thing. I'm not entirely sure what it means, or if there are more responsibilities that come with it, but anyway, the upshot of it is, I'm getting an 11% raise. Without going into specifics, this is going to mean a salary bump in the low hundreds of dollars per month, the low thousands per year, for me. It's also going to mean the scads of overtime hours I'm currently working are going to become even more lucrative. I started working at the higher pay rate today, and will first see it reflected in the paycheck I'll get two weeks from Friday.

I'm still kind of stunned. It feels like I'm finally starting to win at adulting.

( It's been a hard financial slog for years, but now it feels like I'm finally starting to break even. )

I suppose that when you get right down to it, I feel…at least 80% wealthy. A lot of people wish they could be wealthy just for all the things they could buy—but for the last few years, I've wished for wealth just so I wouldn't have to worry about living from paycheck to paycheck and not overdrawing. And now, at least for now, I have that. I have the thing that was 80% of what I wished to be wealthy for. So, I guess I'm 80% wealthy.

And it's a rich man's world.

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Money matters -- Patreon, anyone?

2018-04-27T04:07:42Z

I'm in the process of arranging my finances, consolidating some old credit card and other debts along with the money I owe for the condo I live in. And I have a sneaking suspicion that the monthly payment I'm going to end up making on that, combined with the payment for my student loans, is not going to leave me with a whole lot of money left over to spend on anything else.

So I'm starting to look seriously at other ways of bringing in a little extra money. In particular, things I can do from home without having to spend a lot of extra time and energy going somewhere else and dealing with people (since I already do that all day). I'm open to suggestions.

( I was thinking of trying a Patreon campaign or two, or three. What do you think? )
And those are the extent of the few feeble ideas I've had so far. If anyone knows of any other good way by which I could turn a little extra writing time into a little extra cash, I'd love to hear them. I think I'm just about to find myself in a severe budget crunch.

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Money, money, money…ain't it funny…

Money matters -- Patreon, anyone?