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So...yeah...
Mar. 14th, 2008 11:01 pm(Sorry Ryan, you're getting this twice)
My Monthly expenses:
Cell phone: $35
ISP: $11
Loan Repayment: $130
Netflix: $15
Credit Card: $125-ish (gas, basically)
Total: $316 +/- credit card payments
All that, I can afford on the basic salary at the library, based on 12 hours a week ($340/month).
If I move out, I'm looking at the added expense of probably $500-600 with rent ($300-400) and groceries ($200 give-or-take).
So, if I find another job at the same pay ($8/hr, which works out with taxes and shit to a functional $7) that'll give me 16-20 or more hours a week, I'll be earning something like $448-560/month with that job (or more would be nice). Which would put my total monthly income at $748-900/month.
It almost works (if I ditch Netflix it's even closer). If I can find a job that will work around the library job, and give me up to 25-30 hours a week (in four full days with no library shifts, Mondays after-noon and Friday and Saturday mornings), it could work. Or if, *gasp* I find a job that pays more (like $9/hr to give me a functional $8), I'll actually have extra money after paying for everything.
But the problem in finding a job in Fort Collins in the summer is that it's all either seasonal (camp counselors and staff for summer-time resorts and just no), which won't do me much good in the long run anyway, or full-time, which means I'd have to quit the library which would make me very, very sad and screw with my career goals. You'd think there'd be more jobs in the summer with the college-student pool much reduced, but that actually means that not a lot of places hire because of the lower population.
I mean, hellfires, Erin works full time, often more than, and she's barely breaking even.
It should not be this hard to have a life...
My Monthly expenses:
Cell phone: $35
ISP: $11
Loan Repayment: $130
Netflix: $15
Credit Card: $125-ish (gas, basically)
Total: $316 +/- credit card payments
All that, I can afford on the basic salary at the library, based on 12 hours a week ($340/month).
If I move out, I'm looking at the added expense of probably $500-600 with rent ($300-400) and groceries ($200 give-or-take).
So, if I find another job at the same pay ($8/hr, which works out with taxes and shit to a functional $7) that'll give me 16-20 or more hours a week, I'll be earning something like $448-560/month with that job (or more would be nice). Which would put my total monthly income at $748-900/month.
It almost works (if I ditch Netflix it's even closer). If I can find a job that will work around the library job, and give me up to 25-30 hours a week (in four full days with no library shifts, Mondays after-noon and Friday and Saturday mornings), it could work. Or if, *gasp* I find a job that pays more (like $9/hr to give me a functional $8), I'll actually have extra money after paying for everything.
But the problem in finding a job in Fort Collins in the summer is that it's all either seasonal (camp counselors and staff for summer-time resorts and just no), which won't do me much good in the long run anyway, or full-time, which means I'd have to quit the library which would make me very, very sad and screw with my career goals. You'd think there'd be more jobs in the summer with the college-student pool much reduced, but that actually means that not a lot of places hire because of the lower population.
I mean, hellfires, Erin works full time, often more than, and she's barely breaking even.
It should not be this hard to have a life...
