" Our circumstances do not define us. We can achieve anything we put our minds to." Gail Von-Oxlade
Here is an update on my progress. I have been working at my new job now for a few weeks. Apparently full time hours today is 30 hours a week. At $11.00 an hour, it won't cover all my bills at the end of the month, so I had no choice but to get a second part-time temporary job so I can survive.
It sure feels like the people with money have a hard time understanding that the people who live in poverty are struggling and they don't seem to care about our survival. It seems to me that the only thing that matters is that they survive. My new boss is much younger then me and she keeps saying that she is going to treat us very well. But I think that she is bluffing just because she doesn't want to go anywhere, because I'm such a great worker and loyal.
My first paycheck I noticed that she never deducted any federal taxes. I will wait to see what she does with my next paycheck. She told me that before she decided to buy this franchise that she was an accountant for a company for over 15 years. So she must know what she is doing. I did check on our government's website and there is a law that if the employer decides to have employees as share holders, we don't have to pay taxes. This is new to me.
This is new to me, I know of another company that does this also. She had to work for a fast food company for a year and a half before she could get into franchising and says she knows what it's like to live on minimum wage. We'll see what happens. Right now I like the hours and don't mind the workload.
The other job is a temporary position and I could be hired after the store is opened. But that means I might have to work 6 to 7 days a week. I'm not sure how I can handle it physically. I have managed to catch up on my credit card so I don't get to lose the privilege of using it later and my cell phone is also caught up. I want to keep moving forward and started hedging some money again which feels good.
My sister keeps asking me to find a Debtor's anonymous meeting, but I have been to these groups and they don't allow any teachings from outside sources which keeps the group in a box and they don't grow, they recycle the same stuff over again. Telling your story over and over keeps you in victim mode. You have to let go of the story of the past and make a new story.
I have to pay off my course in November. So this second job will help out. My friend is going to India next month. He got his trip paid by a friend. I would much rather spend my time in a cabin in the woods my a lake for a month then go to India, but to each his own.
It saddens me that I have no money to go on a vacation somewhere. I've never been on a vacation anywhere. I don't like to travel alone and I have no one to travel with that has the time or the money. so I take short trips close to home. Tomorrow I'm heading south of my city to a little farm that is a nice quite place to go.
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