Days 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7
So, work is going about the same, complete with me still not really having much of a clue at what I’m doing. Everyone else is too busy to explain things to me, or when they do explain things to me, they explain just enough so that I can finish what I’m doing in a satisfactory manner but not enough so that I actually get a grasp of what I’m doing on a more general level. But, alas, I’m managing.
I’ve been away from home since Sunday, the firm sent me to another rural Georgia town about 3 hours away to audit another bank. I’m here until Thursday, along with two other audit team members. We get paid for travel time, so I actually made around $75 just on the ride down. Get $50 every night as a bonus just for traveling. Can’t really complain of that. They pay for my meals and hotel too – I know all of this is standard, I’m not bragging, it’s just mind boggling to me. I think I’m so rich now it’s ridiculous, I haven’t even worked here 2 weeks and I feel like I have enough to last me forever. What do people do with money?
The co-workers are friendly and I don’t have any issue with any of them, though hanging around people who are so overtly and devoutly religious is taking some getting used to. We say grace before most meals. I think I’m ok with it until they ask me to say it.
We went to a dog race last night, I don’t know if there’s a more proper term for it. One of my superiors gambled away over $100 while we ate dinner. I guess that’s not really that much. I guess I just answered my earlier question about what people do with money.
The downside of the job is that it pretty much consumes my entire day: We all drive down here together so I’m pretty much stuck with my audit team members from morning until night. Also, I don’t really mind the traveling (what am I doing at home anyway?), but it’d be nice if we could travel to places a bit more fun than Thomasville, Georgia. I have heard that we might have some clients in Texas soon. I wouldn’t mind getting a free trip out there.
Anyway, I’m stopping now. Going to think about how much money I can save if I keep living at home and don’t pay rent or any of that nonsense. Think I’m budgeting to retire at 24.
Uh, people pay rent with money…another Real World Boggle you’ll get to one day. ~I’ll be
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Or they just donate it to me. Just saying.
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You should save and buy your own house…that would be wise. I’m sure you’ve thought of that though.
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No worries. As you gain more money, you’ll gain more bills. Whether you expect to or not is irrelevant at this point. It will just happen. You’ll go “oh, I’d like to have one of these” one day, and then you’ll have a new bill. It’ll keep happening. And it’s fine, but that’s where money goes. Thomasville isn’t THAT bad. 🙂 Glad you’re enjoying yourself, even if it is still difficult.
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You could OPEN A BAKERY IN MICHIGAN with your riches. You should get some clients in LANSING. LAAAANSING. I miss you very much, my Mattface.
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Yeah, this entry still bugs me with the whole money thing. I’m sorry. I tried to look at it from a better point of view, but you seem really snobby to me in here lol. Yeah, you make quite a bit, but you don’t have any bills. If you paid rent, your cell phone, your utilities, your car payment, car insurance, had student loans, etc., you’d actually be complaining about how much you work and how
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little you get in return. I work extremely hard for my money (you know that) and I hardly ever feel like I have more than I need. Most of the time I feel like I’m barely making it. In any case, I’m really glad that you’re able to start saving and that you have that mindset. It’s rare to find in people who have just started working. You should think about starting a 401k or something similar.
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Oops, I forgot to make that first note private. Anyway, Matt, I dont’ think I’ll be able to talk tonight. It’s been a long day of me running around and I still have to go home and make sure my mom eats dinner and wait for my brother to come home before I can go back to my apartment. I hope we can talk tomorrow night though. Love you. Thank you for text messaging me. 🙂
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you don’t sound snobby to me…and i think that says enough considering i’m a pretty broke person and am easily offended when it comes to such statements. then again i may not know you in real life, but from what you write you don’t come off in such a pretentious way. glad you’re managing through. 🙂
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I even went BACK to read this entry to see if it was snobby-ish. You know what I try not to do, be the kind of person who says “At least you have money” or “At least you don’t have to pay off student loans” or any of those condescending comparing comments. I admit, I’m not always good at it. But we’re all on different levels in life, we have different kinds of problems.
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By the way, that was Heather and I wasn’t saying you were doing that. I’m just saying, I don’t think you’re snobby. But maybe you should send me a few books, just to make sure.
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I think most people also pay for rent and food and being alive too! You see, if you’ve been renting since you were 14, you never get to retire because you NEVER catch up with yourself. Sometimes I honestly think I’m still surviving on a few free months of life Natalie gave me! I can’t promise my notes won’t continue to be this petty and bitter 😛
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well if you dont screw yourself when you’re a real youngin’ like i did, you’ll stuff the extras in a savings account or cd so you can actually let it earn more for you. i myself, would pay down debts because i have them. you’ll figure something out.
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