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Working again.
May. 2nd, 2002 10:20 pmOn Tuesday I spoke to Cathy, who told me that I’m wanted back at UNDP to do some more of the same work I’d been doing before (scanning and uploading oldish files to the office’s shared drive). The contract this time is for 32 days, and of course, I said yes. There’s no way I’d pass up a chance to get $70 a day for office work. ::sigh:: The only thing is I really started to hate going there 4 days/week, from 9:30 to 5:30 (which really came out to like, 8 to 5:30 ‘cause I’d catch a ride into the city with my parents in the morning). Then, on Fridays, working at Leeper Kids from 8 to 7:30… it’s completely overwhelming. ::cries:: I’d stick to my current schedule of Fridays 11-8 and then Sundays 12-6, but now that summer’s here, there’s basically no business on Sundays, and so there’s no justification for opening the store. Which means I’m out of my Sunday hours, which means I really have to be there on Fridays all day in order to make a bit of decent money.
I was hoping to be able to just live on my Leeper Kids paycheck and put the UNDP paycheck in the bank without using it, but I don’t think there’s any way I can do that with only $140 every 2 weeks from LK. God, that’s so pathetic. And this is going to be from May 13 (a week from Monday) until just about July 15. With one week (the first week of June) that I’ll be working exclusively at LK because Yvette and Fay will both be on vacation – Cancun, no less. At least the contract runs out in mid-July. Which is just in time for Shoujocon, on July 19. That last paycheck of mine will probably go into my bank account around the 22nd or the 23rd, which is just in time for Otakon. So at least I’ll have money to spend. ::weak smile::
$560 every two weeks from UNDP… $140 from LK… comes to $700 every two weeks. $1400 a month. ::eyes just bugged out:: For food I can basically live on $100/week ‘cause I eat out mostly (which is really bad, but it’s just too much trouble to make food for myself when I can buy it already made). So that’s $1000 to put into the bank if I don’t spend any of it. Of course, there are my monthly expenses plus a bit of leeway (see a previous post for breakdown) of $200, which brings it down to $800. That can’t be right. It can’t. It’s not possible. I must have done the math incorrectly. Please, someone correct me. If it’s true, then I want to make a pact with myself to put away no less than $300 per UNDP paycheck (but preferably $350) into my savings account and NOT TOUCH IT. I don’t know how that’ll work out, but I’m going to really try to stick to it! Then I won’t have to worry about scraping up the money for the hotel payments, etc., when the cons roll around. Of course, when I’m not working at UNDP, I live hand-to-mouth because my LK paycheck was about $220 every 2 weeks, which barely covers the cost of food.
Oh, but the worst part of it, by far, is having to dress “appropriately” for an office job. I hate dressing nicely! I positively loathe it! And it’s even worse in the summer ‘cause all the women will be in skirts, and ewwwww, how I hate skirts! But I’ll have to wear them sometimes because I don’t have enough nice work clothes to go around (not to mention, most of them are for colder weather), and then since it’s not cold outside anymore, pantyhose will be too hot and… ::bangs head against table:: I just don’t want to think about it.
The only nice thing, I suppose, is that I’ll have all of the weekend free. However, since I really don’t like spending too much time with my parents (we always end up fighting for one reason or another), that’s not necessarily a thing to look forward to. I’d like hanging out with my sister more, but with my parents there too, the chances are even higher for an argument of some sort. ::sigh::
Talk about a trade off: work my ass off all week, drop dead, fight with parents more often than we already do, but at least I’ll be making the money to cover the cons and other goodies! Oh. Joy.
Actually, I really shouldn’t complain. I’m in a bit of a funk at the moment, but in reality I’d do a lot more for the prospect of so much money. Yes, I know, call me greedy, call me selfish, call me desperate… I guess you wouldn’t be far off the mark. Do you think it’s a sign of today’s selfish, think-only-of-yourself society? Some of it, probably. The rest of it must be my own winning and ethical personality.
I was hoping to be able to just live on my Leeper Kids paycheck and put the UNDP paycheck in the bank without using it, but I don’t think there’s any way I can do that with only $140 every 2 weeks from LK. God, that’s so pathetic. And this is going to be from May 13 (a week from Monday) until just about July 15. With one week (the first week of June) that I’ll be working exclusively at LK because Yvette and Fay will both be on vacation – Cancun, no less. At least the contract runs out in mid-July. Which is just in time for Shoujocon, on July 19. That last paycheck of mine will probably go into my bank account around the 22nd or the 23rd, which is just in time for Otakon. So at least I’ll have money to spend. ::weak smile::
$560 every two weeks from UNDP… $140 from LK… comes to $700 every two weeks. $1400 a month. ::eyes just bugged out:: For food I can basically live on $100/week ‘cause I eat out mostly (which is really bad, but it’s just too much trouble to make food for myself when I can buy it already made). So that’s $1000 to put into the bank if I don’t spend any of it. Of course, there are my monthly expenses plus a bit of leeway (see a previous post for breakdown) of $200, which brings it down to $800. That can’t be right. It can’t. It’s not possible. I must have done the math incorrectly. Please, someone correct me. If it’s true, then I want to make a pact with myself to put away no less than $300 per UNDP paycheck (but preferably $350) into my savings account and NOT TOUCH IT. I don’t know how that’ll work out, but I’m going to really try to stick to it! Then I won’t have to worry about scraping up the money for the hotel payments, etc., when the cons roll around. Of course, when I’m not working at UNDP, I live hand-to-mouth because my LK paycheck was about $220 every 2 weeks, which barely covers the cost of food.
Oh, but the worst part of it, by far, is having to dress “appropriately” for an office job. I hate dressing nicely! I positively loathe it! And it’s even worse in the summer ‘cause all the women will be in skirts, and ewwwww, how I hate skirts! But I’ll have to wear them sometimes because I don’t have enough nice work clothes to go around (not to mention, most of them are for colder weather), and then since it’s not cold outside anymore, pantyhose will be too hot and… ::bangs head against table:: I just don’t want to think about it.
The only nice thing, I suppose, is that I’ll have all of the weekend free. However, since I really don’t like spending too much time with my parents (we always end up fighting for one reason or another), that’s not necessarily a thing to look forward to. I’d like hanging out with my sister more, but with my parents there too, the chances are even higher for an argument of some sort. ::sigh::
Talk about a trade off: work my ass off all week, drop dead, fight with parents more often than we already do, but at least I’ll be making the money to cover the cons and other goodies! Oh. Joy.
Actually, I really shouldn’t complain. I’m in a bit of a funk at the moment, but in reality I’d do a lot more for the prospect of so much money. Yes, I know, call me greedy, call me selfish, call me desperate… I guess you wouldn’t be far off the mark. Do you think it’s a sign of today’s selfish, think-only-of-yourself society? Some of it, probably. The rest of it must be my own winning and ethical personality.
