It happens, funny thing is, you should have enough experience and be young enough for it to be pretty easy to get a new job and probably a better one. Sometimes these things end up being blessings in disguise…
Hopefully. I’m in a position of needing to replace some equipment, it’s not cheap. I’m currently too leveraged to buy it on credit, but I only have about a month before what I currently have becomes essentially useless.
I need to find about $3000 dollars to do it, and I’m kind of out of options.
Once that’s taken care of, I can coast and pay bills until something else breaks.
I will say that the new job is fantastic. The people are good, my employer seems to be going in a good direction and they’re clearly growing. I did have to take a small pay cut with this job, only about 3%, but I like the job a lot more, and I’m dropping about 3-4k/yr in expenses. The previous job didn’t pay for parking near the office and didn’t have a parking lot for employees to use. The new job is also WFH, so most of the savings are from gas and parking. In a way, I’m taking more money “home” at the end of the day.
Definitely a positive move, but I’m still stuck with a lot of credit card and other debts from my time unemployed, so I’m having difficulty keeping everything paid.
Hopefully I find some money to replace that equipment, and I can settle into a routine to pay back all the losses from being unemployed.
It happens, funny thing is, you should have enough experience and be young enough for it to be pretty easy to get a new job and probably a better one. Sometimes these things end up being blessings in disguise…
I did get a new job, but the time unemployed wrecked my financial situation.
It’s been rough.
Aw, man that’s hard. sorry to hear. You’ll be back in a good place soon.
Hopefully. I’m in a position of needing to replace some equipment, it’s not cheap. I’m currently too leveraged to buy it on credit, but I only have about a month before what I currently have becomes essentially useless.
I need to find about $3000 dollars to do it, and I’m kind of out of options.
Once that’s taken care of, I can coast and pay bills until something else breaks.
I will say that the new job is fantastic. The people are good, my employer seems to be going in a good direction and they’re clearly growing. I did have to take a small pay cut with this job, only about 3%, but I like the job a lot more, and I’m dropping about 3-4k/yr in expenses. The previous job didn’t pay for parking near the office and didn’t have a parking lot for employees to use. The new job is also WFH, so most of the savings are from gas and parking. In a way, I’m taking more money “home” at the end of the day. Definitely a positive move, but I’m still stuck with a lot of credit card and other debts from my time unemployed, so I’m having difficulty keeping everything paid.
Hopefully I find some money to replace that equipment, and I can settle into a routine to pay back all the losses from being unemployed.