I got the job!

[tielan]

Now let me not stuff it up.

(It's through a friend, so really let me not stuff it up!)

I start on Tuesday, standard office hours (might be a little less - 8:30am-5pm, give or take, and you get ~45minutes lunch-and-break as you please.

It's a temp, full-time job, working in the IT department of a farming/industrial machinery company 15 minutes down the road. It's sort of a general dogsbody job - "helpdesk" but the users are the kind of people who delete their bookmarks and then want to know how to get them back. (Note: this is an actual, real example of what happened while I was filling out forms there this afternoon.

The people are nice, the pay is good for what it is and where it is - double what I was temping for back in the mid-00s as a front desk secretary, even if it's rather less than what I'm used to as a contractor. I shall learn to budget.

(A friend has been trying to take me through YNAB - You Need A Budget - and now that money is coming in but it's seriously limited, I shall have to start gripping the beast by the tail...)

Uh, but to celebrate, I'm going to buy the Her Universe Captain Marvel fake leather jacket. And the Wonder Woman one. I'd buy the WW boots, but I don't wear heels anymore and I can't stretch the splurge that far...

I still have to sell a shitload of stuff, too. *sigh*

Comments

[scribblemyname]

CONGRATS!

[tielan]

Thank you!

[schneefink]

Yay! Good luck with it :)

[tielan]

Thank you!

[jenab]

Congratulations!

I haven't tried YNAB for budgeting. I've been budgeting for a few years now and found that tracking my expenses has also helped me realize areas where I'm not being smart with my money.

[tielan]

YNAB were having a free month and so I subscribed, except that I barely used it for that month...

[saturnofthemoon]

Congrats@

[tielan]

Thank you!

[umadoshi]

I hope it goes well and you like it!

[tielan]

Even if it's bad, I think it should be okay for the month.

[lynnenne]

Congratulations! I hope you love it. :)

[tielan]

Thank you! I hope I do too!

[wpadmirer]

Very glad to hear the temp job came through! And YAY! on the Marvel jacket.

Budgets suck, but they're necessary. I know too well.

[tielan]

It's kind of nice to know that I'll have money again. Not so nice to think well, that's about 45 hours of my week that I'll lose to work again.

At least it's not closer to 50 hours, which was what I used to do with an hour commute...

[gaffsie]

Congratulations! Sending good vibes your way. :)

[tielan]

Thank you! *collects all the good vibes*

[monanotlisa]

Go you! And as someone who's been unemployed...yeah, good to check the ins and outs.

[tielan]

I've been terrible at keeping budgets, mostly because I've always had more than enough income to cover my expenses.

Time to get better.

[neonhummingbird]

YAY!!!! Congrats!

[tielan]

Thank you!

[booksarelife]

Congratulations!!!

[skieswideopen]

Congratulations! Good luck!