Gainfully UNemployed.
At least for the next week.
I've been really ready for my last day at my job, but once I left for the final time it dawned on me just exactly what I've done. No more big paycheck every 2 weeks! No more 40+ hour work weeks! No more lunches with co-workers! NO MORE! It sort of feels like the bottom dropped out of my world, again. This is such a huge change in my life. I know it is the right thing to do, and that going back to school positions me for a brighter future. But in the short term it's sort of scary. I've worked a full-time job since I started at Crazy!Church in 1998. It's all I've known for a really long time. And it's been 5 years since I attended any college. Hopefully going to school is sort of like riding a bike. Hopefully I haven't forgotten how to study and learn.
I ended up getting a really fantastic part-time position. It's with a company that does market resarch for the banking industry. It's pays more than the other job offer I received and it comes with a benefit package. A very, very limited benefit package... and my annual income is still being cut by almost 3/4... but something is better than nothing I suppose. Plus it's along the lines of what I'll be studying and what I want to do with my life once I finish school. So it fits.
I was just paying my bills online and always before I've sat here and decided what needs to be paid out of this pay-period and what can wait. Not this time. I realized I had to pay everything because there are no more pay-periods for me. I'll have to transfer money from my money market to my regular checking every month to cover all my bills. The little pay check I receive from my new employer will be for things like gas, food and shoes. Cheap, cheap shoes.
Good thing I bought those Manolo's when I had the chance.
I've been really ready for my last day at my job, but once I left for the final time it dawned on me just exactly what I've done. No more big paycheck every 2 weeks! No more 40+ hour work weeks! No more lunches with co-workers! NO MORE! It sort of feels like the bottom dropped out of my world, again. This is such a huge change in my life. I know it is the right thing to do, and that going back to school positions me for a brighter future. But in the short term it's sort of scary. I've worked a full-time job since I started at Crazy!Church in 1998. It's all I've known for a really long time. And it's been 5 years since I attended any college. Hopefully going to school is sort of like riding a bike. Hopefully I haven't forgotten how to study and learn.
I ended up getting a really fantastic part-time position. It's with a company that does market resarch for the banking industry. It's pays more than the other job offer I received and it comes with a benefit package. A very, very limited benefit package... and my annual income is still being cut by almost 3/4... but something is better than nothing I suppose. Plus it's along the lines of what I'll be studying and what I want to do with my life once I finish school. So it fits.
I was just paying my bills online and always before I've sat here and decided what needs to be paid out of this pay-period and what can wait. Not this time. I realized I had to pay everything because there are no more pay-periods for me. I'll have to transfer money from my money market to my regular checking every month to cover all my bills. The little pay check I receive from my new employer will be for things like gas, food and shoes. Cheap, cheap shoes.
Good thing I bought those Manolo's when I had the chance.