Life changes
Well, I'm lookin at a serious life change real soon.
Let me lay things out and maybe it'll help me decide.
First of all, I've been working at a Wal-Mart for 9 years and am making good wages. I'm living at home with my parents and paying pretty cheap rent. I've got a large amount of credit card debt. I won't say how much but it's substantial. Honestly there's no way for me to pay it back and keep my current job alone. I've been thinking of getting a summer job and living on the wages from that and paying on my bills with my main job, but that'd mean working 60-70 hours a week. :/
In talking with a few of my online friends, I may be able to get another job working for one of them that pays about the same, maybe a little more.
Now at first this doesn't look like a better situation, but here's the thing. I've built up a substantial retirement fund with Wal-Mart over my 9 years, and with it I could pay off all but one credit card, and making the same wages be able to pay off that one within a year. I'd also have a bit of money I could use to move, the job would be in St. Louis, MO, and also have ready cash to attend all the Tower gatherings I have planned for this year. I'd also be able to pay off my car with my parents, my doctor bills from last fall, my cell phone bill, and some other small misc. bills. This job would be in a similar type job as I work at Wal-Mart just in a significantly smaller store. I'm not really worried about the job itself. I figure I've got enough experience in grocery to be able to pick it up quickly enough. Just a case of being taught how they want it done, not what needs to be done. What's worrying me more is if this is all even a good idea. I mean, I could suck at the job and loose it, then be stuck in St. Louis with no job and loads of debt still. My parent'll prolly not be too pleased that I'm moving. They'll say I'm not ready, that they need me to stay cause my Mom's been kinda sick lately and they don't have much money, that I'll get in trouble with women, alcohol, and that I'll not be able to pay all my bills. *sigh*
I'm not even telling them about the whole deal until I know it's a possibility. I won't know anything for sure until after Chicago, when I'll get a chance to talk to Bob about it, and get together with the guys I'll be rooming with. I know I shouldn't think too much about it till then but I do. I'm weird like that, and at work I have too much thinking time :grumble
guess I'll just havta list the pros and cons :/
Pros:
1. Moving closer to Kati
2. Finally after 30 years moving out from my parents house
3. Paying off my debt in a year
4. Never seeing SuperB again
5. Being on my own and away from my parents
6. Living with some friends
Cons:
1. Parents don't think I can do it
2. I'm not sure either
3. What if I get fired?
4. what if one of the other guys get fired?
5. Except for a couple people I'll know noone.
6. Lots of headache with taxes, licences and other stuff by moving across state lines.
7. I don't want to make waves :look
*sigh*
I think I jus tneed to stop thinking about this till it happens. :/
Let me lay things out and maybe it'll help me decide.
First of all, I've been working at a Wal-Mart for 9 years and am making good wages. I'm living at home with my parents and paying pretty cheap rent. I've got a large amount of credit card debt. I won't say how much but it's substantial. Honestly there's no way for me to pay it back and keep my current job alone. I've been thinking of getting a summer job and living on the wages from that and paying on my bills with my main job, but that'd mean working 60-70 hours a week. :/
In talking with a few of my online friends, I may be able to get another job working for one of them that pays about the same, maybe a little more.
Now at first this doesn't look like a better situation, but here's the thing. I've built up a substantial retirement fund with Wal-Mart over my 9 years, and with it I could pay off all but one credit card, and making the same wages be able to pay off that one within a year. I'd also have a bit of money I could use to move, the job would be in St. Louis, MO, and also have ready cash to attend all the Tower gatherings I have planned for this year. I'd also be able to pay off my car with my parents, my doctor bills from last fall, my cell phone bill, and some other small misc. bills. This job would be in a similar type job as I work at Wal-Mart just in a significantly smaller store. I'm not really worried about the job itself. I figure I've got enough experience in grocery to be able to pick it up quickly enough. Just a case of being taught how they want it done, not what needs to be done. What's worrying me more is if this is all even a good idea. I mean, I could suck at the job and loose it, then be stuck in St. Louis with no job and loads of debt still. My parent'll prolly not be too pleased that I'm moving. They'll say I'm not ready, that they need me to stay cause my Mom's been kinda sick lately and they don't have much money, that I'll get in trouble with women, alcohol, and that I'll not be able to pay all my bills. *sigh*
I'm not even telling them about the whole deal until I know it's a possibility. I won't know anything for sure until after Chicago, when I'll get a chance to talk to Bob about it, and get together with the guys I'll be rooming with. I know I shouldn't think too much about it till then but I do. I'm weird like that, and at work I have too much thinking time :grumble
guess I'll just havta list the pros and cons :/
Pros:
1. Moving closer to Kati
2. Finally after 30 years moving out from my parents house
3. Paying off my debt in a year
4. Never seeing SuperB again
5. Being on my own and away from my parents
6. Living with some friends
Cons:
1. Parents don't think I can do it
2. I'm not sure either
3. What if I get fired?
4. what if one of the other guys get fired?
5. Except for a couple people I'll know noone.
6. Lots of headache with taxes, licences and other stuff by moving across state lines.
7. I don't want to make waves :look
*sigh*
I think I jus tneed to stop thinking about this till it happens. :/