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Client I'm working at had a bad financial year - no rain out in the fields, budgets slashed. Come November, there won't be space in the budget at this client for me. Several people are being put on part time, but they're employees of the contracting company so they get priority.
The good
- The mortgage is still covered and coverable, and I have money in the offset account which can be used to tide me over if necessary.
- Free time in the summer to garden and work out how to best enviroproof the house. (Water tanks, solar battery, gardening.)
- Time for NaNo! And thinking I might try writing a "trashy" romance, and self-publish on Amazon.
The bad
- No money coming in, just as the weather picks up and I want to go out and meet and eat with people!
- That whole uncertainty factor: right now, neither sister is working regularly, and while B2's financial management is less my concern, B1 (with whom I live) gets stressed when she's tight on money. Which means helping out more and managing things better.
The ugly
- I don't think there's any ugly yet. The company I've been contracting for will try to get me work somewhere else, and I can live lean (I just prefer not to).
At least my mother isn't going to be too stressed about me: I've always been the daughter who lands on her feet. (Luck in the personality lottery, the financial lottery, the employment lottery.) And she's selling her house right now, so it's a lot of 'getting everything ready' and my stepdad is a lovely man but he's stressed, which means mum gets to manage the emotional tenor of things even more and...
Frankly, I do love the men in my life - they're good husbands and good men (for the most part) - but I am awfully glad I'm not married. And that relief is only growing greater the older I get.
I guess out of all this, I'm most worried about B1 who, as mentioned, gets stressed when finances are tight. I suspect I'm going to end up cleaning the house rather more often while I'm unemployed...
In other news, my chooks (Aussie slang for "chickens" for all you sad cases living beyond our borders) are arriving in the next week! (After hearing nothing from the company for far, far too long.) Hopefully just in time to keep the fruit flies down...
The good
- The mortgage is still covered and coverable, and I have money in the offset account which can be used to tide me over if necessary.
- Free time in the summer to garden and work out how to best enviroproof the house. (Water tanks, solar battery, gardening.)
- Time for NaNo! And thinking I might try writing a "trashy" romance, and self-publish on Amazon.
The bad
- No money coming in, just as the weather picks up and I want to go out and meet and eat with people!
- That whole uncertainty factor: right now, neither sister is working regularly, and while B2's financial management is less my concern, B1 (with whom I live) gets stressed when she's tight on money. Which means helping out more and managing things better.
The ugly
- I don't think there's any ugly yet. The company I've been contracting for will try to get me work somewhere else, and I can live lean (I just prefer not to).
At least my mother isn't going to be too stressed about me: I've always been the daughter who lands on her feet. (Luck in the personality lottery, the financial lottery, the employment lottery.) And she's selling her house right now, so it's a lot of 'getting everything ready' and my stepdad is a lovely man but he's stressed, which means mum gets to manage the emotional tenor of things even more and...
Frankly, I do love the men in my life - they're good husbands and good men (for the most part) - but I am awfully glad I'm not married. And that relief is only growing greater the older I get.
I guess out of all this, I'm most worried about B1 who, as mentioned, gets stressed when finances are tight. I suspect I'm going to end up cleaning the house rather more often while I'm unemployed...
In other news, my chooks (Aussie slang for "chickens" for all you sad cases living beyond our borders) are arriving in the next week! (After hearing nothing from the company for far, far too long.) Hopefully just in time to keep the fruit flies down...
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