Hrm.
Arr.
Trying to decide if it's worth it to me to get a job in Denton over the summer and take the place of a friend's departing roommate next year. It'd be just over a little $400 a month, after utilities and stuff. I'd just have to work ~20+ hours a week to make it work, with groceries and whatnot.
On the one hand, woo! Social life! Not having to drive an hour to do things! Not spending two hours of every school day DRIVING. Being able to go home for a nap between classes instead of SLEEPING IN MY CAR. An easier time running the organization I've inherited! An actual sense of connection to some locale, instead of the feeling of being displaced between two cities that I have now! A taste of actual, almost real life!
On the other, that is around $5000 for the year that I otherwise wouldn't have spent, whereas I could be saving up to pay off student loans or grad school or whatever else. Considering the financial climate right now, money not spent is a good thing. And if I do decide to go to the grad school I'm looking at, I won't have any time for a job at all and it'd be nice to have a stash.
It might be nice not feeling like an overgrown teenager for once, though.
... 'Course, this is all predicated on me finding a job in Denton. If I can't do that, it's a moot point anyway.
Edit: Eff it, I'ma try it. If I can get a job in Denton over the summer (and she can too), I'm going to not do the chickenshit thing for once in my life and just go for it.
Trying to decide if it's worth it to me to get a job in Denton over the summer and take the place of a friend's departing roommate next year. It'd be just over a little $400 a month, after utilities and stuff. I'd just have to work ~20+ hours a week to make it work, with groceries and whatnot.
On the one hand, woo! Social life! Not having to drive an hour to do things! Not spending two hours of every school day DRIVING. Being able to go home for a nap between classes instead of SLEEPING IN MY CAR. An easier time running the organization I've inherited! An actual sense of connection to some locale, instead of the feeling of being displaced between two cities that I have now! A taste of actual, almost real life!
On the other, that is around $5000 for the year that I otherwise wouldn't have spent, whereas I could be saving up to pay off student loans or grad school or whatever else. Considering the financial climate right now, money not spent is a good thing. And if I do decide to go to the grad school I'm looking at, I won't have any time for a job at all and it'd be nice to have a stash.
It might be nice not feeling like an overgrown teenager for once, though.
... 'Course, this is all predicated on me finding a job in Denton. If I can't do that, it's a moot point anyway.
Edit: Eff it, I'ma try it. If I can get a job in Denton over the summer (and she can too), I'm going to not do the chickenshit thing for once in my life and just go for it.