Settling In.
My wife and I got a car. It is a 2001 Saturn L300 with 102k miles on it. So far we are very happy with it and are doing one maintenance item a month until it is caught up again.
We’ve also become recent converts of Dave Ramsey’s. Sure he’s Christian, sure he’s on Fox Business, and sure he is a little gruff, but the man makes too much sense. My wife and I are happy about the new direction for our finances, but a lot of people say, “I’m not sure that’s a good idea,” when I say I am paying off and closing all of our credit cards. I think about grandparents when I think about credit cards and loans and stuff. Most of them never really participated in this whole credit card/loan stuff. They just bought things when they could afford it. Sure some grandparents aren’t doing well, but most of the ones that I know are doing great because they just didn’t go around getting into debt to get a higher score so that they could get into debt again.
Other than that, I am working again at the old bookstore that I used to haunt. Nothing has changed. The company hasn’t gotten any wiser, and the same people are still in the store. That last part is good because I liked who I work for. The first part is just foolishness. We’re in a recession. Everyone is hurting. This company’s strategy for dealing with it is to raise prices on their, “Discount cards.” They also raised the weekly percentage that the lowly workers are required to get. If you fail to sell enough cards, your hours are cut.
By the way, the board of executives voted themselves raises this year.
I can’t really complain about the job, because it is easy and pretty mindless. Just have to shut off all the foolishness that comes down from the headquarters. In the meantime I am applying for serious jobs in game development. Once I exhaust all of those positions I will move on to security positions, and after exhausting those, I’ll take anything I can get.
August 10th, 2009 at 10:40 pm by rl