Make more money than I spend

£0. Current expenditure = between £3000- £5000 per month. This is currently unstainable, living off loans. I intend to get a job in the next few days so i atleast have some money coming in. My minimum outgoings to maintain my house are £1600 a month! Ouch i seriously need some cashflow! I’ll get applying for jobs tonight once i’ve sorted out my cv.

and passed the test on this one unlike my last entry which was done in jest.

He said Homer-esquely.

[switches to Professor Frink impersonation]

Oh no.. No no I felt that, you didn’t carry the one you foolish person. Now you’ll incur the penalties with the compound interest and the wrath and the truncheons ba-hey!

[switches to Montgomery Burns impersonating voice]

Quick Smithers, pass the abacus! Eggggg-sellent!

the January expenses.

This has been a lifelong struggle for me. I am not an extravagant spender—I rarely travel much outside of the DC beltway and the last new item of clothing was a t-shirt that cost me $8.99. A splurge for me is buying a new CD or just trying on a new pair of shoes (not actually BUYING them, mind you.)

I’m pretty sure that I am underpaid. I have this uncanny way of finding the jobs that I require a large amount of time and offer relatively low compensation (and I’m not even working in the arts any more-but at least when I was I was doing something creative!) I absolutely HATE looking for jobs, but I suppose this could be the next step to earning more money-or am I looking for a “geographical” solution(?) My insane thinking: if I find a different job things will be different (i.e. better.)

I know that a lot of it has to do with me (being underpaid) and only a little bit to with my employers, but I cannot help but feel a little exploited. This is the way I believe my company thinks: if we can get her to do more work and not pay her for it, then we end up making more money-she won’t say anything-she’d better not say anything or she’ll lose her job. (Am I being paranoid?) Anyway, here I sit teetering on the duality of “do I stay or do I go?”

This requires getting a job first.