Feeling a little overwhelmed...
but I'm hanging in there the best I can. It's not so much that there's more to do than I can handle, it's just all new and I have no basis for comparison, yet, as to whether I'm doing enough or too little on a daily basis. I'm not sure when I'm having a sit down with the boss, again, to go over what I've been learning and how well it matches his expectations. He's dropped a few comments upon occasion on how well I've tackled certain things and when I've used my initiative to set up new forms or ways of doing things. He even commented on how something I mentioned I did at home with Outlook he's incorporated into his work schedule. Hee. The overall feeling is that I'm keeping up with the Joneses. There's only one woman who bugs a little, very pushy and a couple times has commented when she came into my cube, "you're playing?" when she saw Facebook up. We are allowed breaks, yes. And I don't try to overinflate what my duties are like you do, beeyotch. She's all, "I have 65 programs I have to take care of." Haha. I have close to 100. Suck it.
The big thing bugging me, right now, is money. I don't know what I'm going to end up getting rid of in order to live within my income. It looks like both the cell phone and cable TV are goners. The free bus pass may be put into use at the start of the fall semester to save $750 a year, even though I'm not comfortable riding the bus because of the route (I'd have to transfer in one of the roughest areas of Madison, people get robbed at that transfer point.) I'm down to under a grand in savings and I've been transferring between $500-800 a month while I was on unemployment to make ends meet. My salary looks to be about $200 a month more than what unemployment was. It's hard to tell, some deductions come only out of the first paycheck of the month, but not the second! How wierd is that? Anyway, that's a shortfall still of $300-600 a month. Cell phone and cable will account for about $120. The parking lot fee would account for saving about another $80 a month, Sept.-May. Riding the bus for free would save maybe $35 a month in gas for the car.
The big thing is, though, with the fact that I started so far into the fiscal year for them, there's more being taken out of my paycheck than would normally be. Like $100 a paycheck for the parking lot fee for the first four paychecks vs. $80 a month. I'm trying to be optimistic and not cancel anything until things shake out as final, but that's such a long way down the road. I'm a planner! I plan for contingencies. I'd rather tighten my belt, now, and have just enough later, than wait too long and end up having to sell something or borrow money from my dad. The big thing is riding out the summer, where my checks will actually be larger, because the parking lot fee won't be coming out of the paycheck and then see the way it falls out. But, even though I'll be able to park in the lot until the end of August, I have to renew the lot reservation in May, if I want it again. ::headdesk:: I don't know yet! Maybe I should just buckle down for a year with the bus and see how things shake out. Then next year May I'll have a better idea if adding the lot fee back in won't break me. What's riding the bus for one year, right?
Keep your eye on this space. I will undoubtedly spaz out over my finances again after I figure out my taxes. Gah.
The big thing bugging me, right now, is money. I don't know what I'm going to end up getting rid of in order to live within my income. It looks like both the cell phone and cable TV are goners. The free bus pass may be put into use at the start of the fall semester to save $750 a year, even though I'm not comfortable riding the bus because of the route (I'd have to transfer in one of the roughest areas of Madison, people get robbed at that transfer point.) I'm down to under a grand in savings and I've been transferring between $500-800 a month while I was on unemployment to make ends meet. My salary looks to be about $200 a month more than what unemployment was. It's hard to tell, some deductions come only out of the first paycheck of the month, but not the second! How wierd is that? Anyway, that's a shortfall still of $300-600 a month. Cell phone and cable will account for about $120. The parking lot fee would account for saving about another $80 a month, Sept.-May. Riding the bus for free would save maybe $35 a month in gas for the car.
The big thing is, though, with the fact that I started so far into the fiscal year for them, there's more being taken out of my paycheck than would normally be. Like $100 a paycheck for the parking lot fee for the first four paychecks vs. $80 a month. I'm trying to be optimistic and not cancel anything until things shake out as final, but that's such a long way down the road. I'm a planner! I plan for contingencies. I'd rather tighten my belt, now, and have just enough later, than wait too long and end up having to sell something or borrow money from my dad. The big thing is riding out the summer, where my checks will actually be larger, because the parking lot fee won't be coming out of the paycheck and then see the way it falls out. But, even though I'll be able to park in the lot until the end of August, I have to renew the lot reservation in May, if I want it again. ::headdesk:: I don't know yet! Maybe I should just buckle down for a year with the bus and see how things shake out. Then next year May I'll have a better idea if adding the lot fee back in won't break me. What's riding the bus for one year, right?
Keep your eye on this space. I will undoubtedly spaz out over my finances again after I figure out my taxes. Gah.