Issue 1 - The Life List
GeneralPosted by Neep Tue, September 29, 2009 04:37PMLike I said in my last post, life has been getting me down. Not really life in general but my life. So I sat down just now and wrote down a list of things I didn't like about it. Lets just say my efforts were a little disappointing. I've done this in my had many times and come out with huge long lists but today I've only come up with three items. So here they are:
1 - I Still live with my parents
Afraid so. Twenty-three years old and I'm still at home. It's not from lack of desire to move out, it's more lack of money. Which brings me to number two.
2
– I'm £6000 in debt
I'm terrible with money. When I have it I have to spend it. It's almost as if I feel guilty for having it and have to get rid of it before someone finds out. In total my debts are spread out over three credit cards, and overdraft and a loan. One credit card is nearly paid off (when I say nearly, I mean I can pay it off in one payment if I focus my efforts on it), the other 2 are near their limits (£700 and £1350 respectively), the overdraft (£1500) is nearly all used, and I'm not sure how much I have left on my loan, but I think its just under £2000. Do you know the worst thing about these debts? I have almost nothing to show for them. The loan debt yes because I took that loan out to buy some music equipment for a band I was joining (my old gear wasn't cutting it) so I have a guitar and an amp to show for that but the rest is mostly gambling debt or little schemes I had to pay off the other debts, like taking out another credit card to pay off the one that had just started charging me interest but not reading the terms properly and finding out that the new card didn't have an interest free period so I just ended up spending on it. I reckon that I could have it all paid off in a year if I put some effort into it.
3- Dead end job
I've been a baker's assistant for nearly 5 years and lets just say it's not what I imagined I'd be doing with my life. In fact, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life when I was at school, I only took this job to get off unemployment benefit (which I'd only been on for a month but I hated every minute of it) and I think I've only stayed with this job so long to prove something to my dad but I'm not sure what. Basically my job entails making pies. Not pies like any American readers would be familiar with (like anyone reads this, ha ha), but savory pies (mince, steak, steak and gravy, chicken, chicken curry, sweet and sour chicken, and macaroni), and looking at pies for 12 hours a night isn't my idea of fun. The worst thing about this situation is that I don't have a clue what I want to do, well, I have a rough idea. I wouldn't mind doing some web design or something in music like sound engineering or something similar. Wouldn't mind working in radio either.
Well, there's list one. What am I going to do about the huge about of items on them? You'll just have to wait and see. I'll think of something and post about them next week I think, and there's my second list to come: my list of impossible tasks. That'll probably be up next week because I really need to put some imagination into that one. Anyways, that's all for now.
Have fun.
Neep
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