Dinner
Dinner last night was pretty darned good. We ate at a local Chinese place, which is surprisingly good. We had some good conversation and caught up a bit. Definitely fun!
Got back to my place and chatted for a bit afterwards. Then it was bed time, so my guest left and I crawled into bed. I felt kinda bleah and still feel mildly bleah today, so it could be a cold.
Our conversation did have an interesting turn, though: my friend works for a large company in CT that produces aircraft parts, among other things. The kind of stuff foreign governments buy. He mentioned that I would probably be good at the Logistics Project Manager position, which pays *substantially* more than I'm making now (nearly twice my present pay) and has all sorts of other win attached to it. And that he'd keep his eye out for any openings. I shall update my resume so that I'm poised and ready for applying. I love my job where I am, but at this rate, I won't pay my student loan off in less than 12 years, I won't ever be able to afford a new car and certainly never a house. Right now, I don't even have a 401K or any other sort of retirement thingy set up, though I should, but wouldn't be able to contribute any more than about $30/month to it.
This all got me thinking last night about what I would do with so much money. I'm thrilled that I can support myself, I don't have to count pennies and I'm not hungry (a year of being really hungry does wonders for your outlook on food). I have enough to pay all of my bills and a little left over for some fun stuff. I have some savings. But I'm still stuck. With half as much again as I make now, I could pay off my loan faster and probably afford a new car. Probably not a house, though. Still. I've mostly given up on trying to find a better paying job, because honestly, this is all liberal arts still, and that just doesn't pay. Translation, publishing, editing...none of it really pays well. However, I do like managing. I've not done a lot of it, but when those huge jobs come through and I get assigned to them, it's challenging and difficult and requires every ounce of organizational finesse I've got - but I really like it. And I'm really good at customer service. Freakishly so, it seems. It always shocks everyone around work that the translators and clients tend to really like me. Okay, says I. Maybe I should start looking again.
Of course, I've also considered finding a potential house mate and moving. *sigh* I vowed a long time ago that I would never live with someone else because it's just not worth the hassle. At all. My sanity is really, really important to me. But if I could whack off half of my household bills (not food), I could apply that to all sorts of things. Like the damned loan. That's an extra $400+ per month, by the way. But I'm not sure that my hard-earned sanity is worth tweaking right now. I really, really, really like living by myself.
Hmmmm.
Got back to my place and chatted for a bit afterwards. Then it was bed time, so my guest left and I crawled into bed. I felt kinda bleah and still feel mildly bleah today, so it could be a cold.
Our conversation did have an interesting turn, though: my friend works for a large company in CT that produces aircraft parts, among other things. The kind of stuff foreign governments buy. He mentioned that I would probably be good at the Logistics Project Manager position, which pays *substantially* more than I'm making now (nearly twice my present pay) and has all sorts of other win attached to it. And that he'd keep his eye out for any openings. I shall update my resume so that I'm poised and ready for applying. I love my job where I am, but at this rate, I won't pay my student loan off in less than 12 years, I won't ever be able to afford a new car and certainly never a house. Right now, I don't even have a 401K or any other sort of retirement thingy set up, though I should, but wouldn't be able to contribute any more than about $30/month to it.
This all got me thinking last night about what I would do with so much money. I'm thrilled that I can support myself, I don't have to count pennies and I'm not hungry (a year of being really hungry does wonders for your outlook on food). I have enough to pay all of my bills and a little left over for some fun stuff. I have some savings. But I'm still stuck. With half as much again as I make now, I could pay off my loan faster and probably afford a new car. Probably not a house, though. Still. I've mostly given up on trying to find a better paying job, because honestly, this is all liberal arts still, and that just doesn't pay. Translation, publishing, editing...none of it really pays well. However, I do like managing. I've not done a lot of it, but when those huge jobs come through and I get assigned to them, it's challenging and difficult and requires every ounce of organizational finesse I've got - but I really like it. And I'm really good at customer service. Freakishly so, it seems. It always shocks everyone around work that the translators and clients tend to really like me. Okay, says I. Maybe I should start looking again.
Of course, I've also considered finding a potential house mate and moving. *sigh* I vowed a long time ago that I would never live with someone else because it's just not worth the hassle. At all. My sanity is really, really important to me. But if I could whack off half of my household bills (not food), I could apply that to all sorts of things. Like the damned loan. That's an extra $400+ per month, by the way. But I'm not sure that my hard-earned sanity is worth tweaking right now. I really, really, really like living by myself.
Hmmmm.