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Sooooo.. I haven't been updating this thing at all recently. I don't know why, I guess I'm just in one of those funks that I get in every so often where I lose interest in LJ. I've been coming by and checking friend updates now and then, skimming through the long ones for pertinent information, and reading the entirety of the short ones, but I haven't been making posts of my own. Now that I have a job and am going to school as well, it seems as though I don't have enough time to do anything in regards to this site. This must change.
Work and school combined has me pretty bogged down at the moment. It's not that I can't handle it, it's just the fact that I'm pretty tired all the time because I have to get up at 6 AM for school, and then when I get home, I have about two hours to sit down, get ready, take a shower, etc., and then it's off to work. Then I'm there till about 10 PM, and when I finally get home, I have about an hour and a half to work on anything for school and get to bed, ready to wake up in 6 hours and do it all over again. I'm glad I am currently in classes where there isn't much homework, but this last term that I just finished was not the same. The last term, I had Advanced College Composition and Principles of Speech, both of which are heavy on the essay factor (the speech one being that I had to write an outline, which is basically an essay that just has titles for each paragraph and actually takes longer to write). Then there is the work part, which makes my back hurt to no end because of the whole "standing in one place for hours on end" thing, and with the back problems I already have, that's killing me. They pretty much refuse to schedule me for 6 hours a day, possibly because I'm new, possibly because they don't want to give me a 30 minute lunch break (which I dearly need); but instead, they feel it neccessary to schedule me for 5 and a half hours and basically make me work just as long as if I had been working 6 hours, just without the break part to let me relax. *facepalm* it's rather annoying, really. But the pay is nice, so I live with it.
I got my first paycheck this past thursday, which turned out to be $3 and some change short of a $400 check (which was nice), but pretty much all of it was gone within an hour of cashing it because of a negative $151 in my bank account from the previous month's insurance and the overdraft fee accompanying it and this past month's insurance, which happened to be due the day before I got paid (luckily it didn't come out of my account because of the negative balance, so I didn't have to deal with another overdraft fee). I then (after having purchased a nice, thick papered sketch pad and a pad of tracing paper whilst cashing the check) had about $90 left, $20 of which went to gas, and the rest has been food and smokes. I am currently down to about $20 until this next thursday, which will be spent on gas whenever I run out so I can get to work and school. This next paycheck will be better, though, as I only need to save some for gas and my insurance isn't due till the end of the month, by which time I will be getting another paycheck. So this next one is going towards getting a new heatsink for my CPU, about a GB of RAM so I can play games a bit better, an oil change and transmission flush for my car, and then whatever is left over is going towards gas, cigarettes, food, and weed. Not much that I can put up for saving until a couple paychecks down the way. Of course, this will be the first time I've been able to smoke since Christmas, which will be quite enjoyable and help me deal with the stress of work and school a bit better, not to mention, give me something to do when I'm bored (nothing more entertaining than walking around the neighborhood whilst smoking a fat one to pass the time). Of course, the paycheck after that one will go towards insurance and a new CPU because I'm tired of this Core2Duo.. I want a fucking Core2Quad, dammit. By the way.. Pet peeve of mine that no one knows about and goes along with the whole "I'm a Grammar Nazi" thing: People who misspell the word "Dammit". It's correctly spelled with two m's, as in "dammit" versus "damnit". Also planning on getting my own cell phone plan that has nights and weekends on it so I can actually call my friends without my dad bitching about the price. -__-'
I really cannot wait until I finish school. I really want to get out into the real job world and start getting nice, fat paychecks. Seeing as how I plan on moving away from here 6 months after I've started one of these nice jobs, I'll have earned about $15K after the taxes have been taken out. With $15K, I can do a lot of things. For instance, get an apartment in Ashevile after I have a job lined up and pay the first 3 to 4 months worth of rent up front (seeing as how a one bedroom apartment is about $450 to $500 a month, that would only deplete my funds by about $2,000, give or take about $500 because of the security deposit). That would mean that I woul be living rent free for a while and could put my entire paycheck, minus living expenses into a savings account and then just sit back and watch the interest roll in. Of course, the $15K would probably be gone after a couple months because of getting a new car, furniture, and computer, but I'd still have about $2000 a month to throw into savings. Whooooo!
Okay, so I just took a little detour on the web and completely forgot about this entry. Almost went to sit outside till it was time to go to work, leaving this entry to rot until I got home, at which point I would probably just not want to finish it. =P Anywho, working on getting my A+ certification. Went through some test prep questions a minute ago to see how I was fairing. Did decently well, ended up with a bunch of questions I'd never seen before and a few that were just stupid mistakes. I want to try and go through all of the questions in the exam prep and make sure I'm scoring about 90% all the time before I actually take the exam. Think I'll work on that some more tonight when I get home.
Anywho, that's it for the entry for now. Got some of my ranting out of my system and was able to post some of the numbers and ideas that have been running through my head over the past few weeks. It really helps me to concentrate on goals when I get them on paper (or in this case, a virtual journal). Farewell, for now.
Work and school combined has me pretty bogged down at the moment. It's not that I can't handle it, it's just the fact that I'm pretty tired all the time because I have to get up at 6 AM for school, and then when I get home, I have about two hours to sit down, get ready, take a shower, etc., and then it's off to work. Then I'm there till about 10 PM, and when I finally get home, I have about an hour and a half to work on anything for school and get to bed, ready to wake up in 6 hours and do it all over again. I'm glad I am currently in classes where there isn't much homework, but this last term that I just finished was not the same. The last term, I had Advanced College Composition and Principles of Speech, both of which are heavy on the essay factor (the speech one being that I had to write an outline, which is basically an essay that just has titles for each paragraph and actually takes longer to write). Then there is the work part, which makes my back hurt to no end because of the whole "standing in one place for hours on end" thing, and with the back problems I already have, that's killing me. They pretty much refuse to schedule me for 6 hours a day, possibly because I'm new, possibly because they don't want to give me a 30 minute lunch break (which I dearly need); but instead, they feel it neccessary to schedule me for 5 and a half hours and basically make me work just as long as if I had been working 6 hours, just without the break part to let me relax. *facepalm* it's rather annoying, really. But the pay is nice, so I live with it.
I got my first paycheck this past thursday, which turned out to be $3 and some change short of a $400 check (which was nice), but pretty much all of it was gone within an hour of cashing it because of a negative $151 in my bank account from the previous month's insurance and the overdraft fee accompanying it and this past month's insurance, which happened to be due the day before I got paid (luckily it didn't come out of my account because of the negative balance, so I didn't have to deal with another overdraft fee). I then (after having purchased a nice, thick papered sketch pad and a pad of tracing paper whilst cashing the check) had about $90 left, $20 of which went to gas, and the rest has been food and smokes. I am currently down to about $20 until this next thursday, which will be spent on gas whenever I run out so I can get to work and school. This next paycheck will be better, though, as I only need to save some for gas and my insurance isn't due till the end of the month, by which time I will be getting another paycheck. So this next one is going towards getting a new heatsink for my CPU, about a GB of RAM so I can play games a bit better, an oil change and transmission flush for my car, and then whatever is left over is going towards gas, cigarettes, food, and weed. Not much that I can put up for saving until a couple paychecks down the way. Of course, this will be the first time I've been able to smoke since Christmas, which will be quite enjoyable and help me deal with the stress of work and school a bit better, not to mention, give me something to do when I'm bored (nothing more entertaining than walking around the neighborhood whilst smoking a fat one to pass the time). Of course, the paycheck after that one will go towards insurance and a new CPU because I'm tired of this Core2Duo.. I want a fucking Core2Quad, dammit. By the way.. Pet peeve of mine that no one knows about and goes along with the whole "I'm a Grammar Nazi" thing: People who misspell the word "Dammit". It's correctly spelled with two m's, as in "dammit" versus "damnit". Also planning on getting my own cell phone plan that has nights and weekends on it so I can actually call my friends without my dad bitching about the price. -__-'
I really cannot wait until I finish school. I really want to get out into the real job world and start getting nice, fat paychecks. Seeing as how I plan on moving away from here 6 months after I've started one of these nice jobs, I'll have earned about $15K after the taxes have been taken out. With $15K, I can do a lot of things. For instance, get an apartment in Ashevile after I have a job lined up and pay the first 3 to 4 months worth of rent up front (seeing as how a one bedroom apartment is about $450 to $500 a month, that would only deplete my funds by about $2,000, give or take about $500 because of the security deposit). That would mean that I woul be living rent free for a while and could put my entire paycheck, minus living expenses into a savings account and then just sit back and watch the interest roll in. Of course, the $15K would probably be gone after a couple months because of getting a new car, furniture, and computer, but I'd still have about $2000 a month to throw into savings. Whooooo!
Okay, so I just took a little detour on the web and completely forgot about this entry. Almost went to sit outside till it was time to go to work, leaving this entry to rot until I got home, at which point I would probably just not want to finish it. =P Anywho, working on getting my A+ certification. Went through some test prep questions a minute ago to see how I was fairing. Did decently well, ended up with a bunch of questions I'd never seen before and a few that were just stupid mistakes. I want to try and go through all of the questions in the exam prep and make sure I'm scoring about 90% all the time before I actually take the exam. Think I'll work on that some more tonight when I get home.
Anywho, that's it for the entry for now. Got some of my ranting out of my system and was able to post some of the numbers and ideas that have been running through my head over the past few weeks. It really helps me to concentrate on goals when I get them on paper (or in this case, a virtual journal). Farewell, for now.