It's July? How sneaky Mr Calendar! I honestly didn't see it coming. At work we work with ISO dates and I can tell you off hand that it's the 27th week of the year or 09.27.6 (being a Saturday). I can also tell you I've spent 4/924 of my life at my job, assuming I get to age 77. I don't have a lot to show for the last 4 months. On one hand I have an improved financial situation and on the other I have lost my dreams and aspirations. On the third hand (?) the last 4 months wont be a waste if the unlikely happens and I get the trainee coolstore managers job. I could at least use that to climb a few rungs in the future if need be, which would be easy with my three hands I guess.
I'm almost prepared to take bets on which happens first: Me having a successful job interview that leads to a job, or the All Blacks winning another world cup. Both of us at one stage were 1 from 1.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
I moved
Well a lot has happened. I've left Wellington and made the move home. I also saw the All Blacks play on another wet All Black game (my third consecutive wet All Black game). I hoped to find someone to fill my room to cover my rent obligation. But nobody has come yet and at this point I'll let it sit empty and not pay rent. I've paid so many bills in my absence for that flat that I'll let them take it from my tab.
So now the question points to what now? So far it is just carry on doing what I'm doing. I think work has slowed down and I may actually start seeing full weekends. Which will make no difference to my net income as my rent works out to be over a days wage. So I guess I end out ahead. I wont dwell on how much I could of saved if I left earlier as that would be like asking a lifetime lotto player how much they would of saved if they had never played (assuming no major wins). I guess we just hope for great things to happen so the gamble doesn't seem as great.
So now the question points to what now? So far it is just carry on doing what I'm doing. I think work has slowed down and I may actually start seeing full weekends. Which will make no difference to my net income as my rent works out to be over a days wage. So I guess I end out ahead. I wont dwell on how much I could of saved if I left earlier as that would be like asking a lifetime lotto player how much they would of saved if they had never played (assuming no major wins). I guess we just hope for great things to happen so the gamble doesn't seem as great.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Given the shaft much?
It's been a test of a week. I tried to negotiate a peaceful solution to the conflict in my flat, but really I think I've just been spit in the face by my approach of fairness. It turns out I've been paying my share of rent and expenses only to find that this has been used to pay minor bills that aren't in my name while over $600 has been run up in my name with electricity and a $290 phone bill. I tried ringing the phone company on Friday night to get toll calls suspended only to find out it's been done by default and that the collections department will contact me this week.
This really means I've spent a 60 hour week paying for my flat mates utilities. A is for awesome. I think I might just cut it off completely on Monday and bite the bullet and front up the cash. I really want to take my flatmate to court, I want to know what she's done with the money she's been entrusted to pay bills with.
I've also heard no news on the job front, but then again that's not surprising as I'm sure I'm putting applications into a black hole never to be heard from again. This of course still leaves me clinging to my temporary solution which has an unknown length to it as it stands. Already the main season is over and I feel on borrowed time.
At this point I'm over Wellington and am giving it till the end of the month. And if I take away Wellington there isn't too many places in New Zealand I really want to be.
So I guess I should just make one final stand with a massive application send off but I just can't do it. I read the job descriptions and I'm either over qualified or lack experience. It really feels a futile exercise and I can feel myself starting to rot on the inside, all I feel like doing now is going to sleep, I seriously would go to sleep by 7:30 every night if I wasn't going to wake up at some stupidly early hour in the morning. I still can't work out if the big mistake was going to university or leaving it.
Fuck I'm jaded right now.
This really means I've spent a 60 hour week paying for my flat mates utilities. A is for awesome. I think I might just cut it off completely on Monday and bite the bullet and front up the cash. I really want to take my flatmate to court, I want to know what she's done with the money she's been entrusted to pay bills with.
I've also heard no news on the job front, but then again that's not surprising as I'm sure I'm putting applications into a black hole never to be heard from again. This of course still leaves me clinging to my temporary solution which has an unknown length to it as it stands. Already the main season is over and I feel on borrowed time.
At this point I'm over Wellington and am giving it till the end of the month. And if I take away Wellington there isn't too many places in New Zealand I really want to be.
So I guess I should just make one final stand with a massive application send off but I just can't do it. I read the job descriptions and I'm either over qualified or lack experience. It really feels a futile exercise and I can feel myself starting to rot on the inside, all I feel like doing now is going to sleep, I seriously would go to sleep by 7:30 every night if I wasn't going to wake up at some stupidly early hour in the morning. I still can't work out if the big mistake was going to university or leaving it.
Fuck I'm jaded right now.
Monday, June 1, 2009
99 Led Balloons fall down
We got thrashed. It was unprecedented. We even scored first, not that I knew that at the time as I started watching the game at 4am, 20 minutes after kick off. At that stage we were down about 31-7, which eventually come to a halt at 61 - 17. The Bulls deserved it and I firmly believe not even the All Blacks could of beaten them there on that day. It reminded me of that All Black game from the end of season tour of 2006 against France, except we were on the side of dominance.
It's Queens birthday and it marks the 13th (day) anniversary since I had to get up and go to work. Instead I have to mediate a dispute from my flat that I haven't seen in months. I hate drama.
Still, I'm in no hurry I can enjoy my morning a bit I guess.
It's Queens birthday and it marks the 13th (day) anniversary since I had to get up and go to work. Instead I have to mediate a dispute from my flat that I haven't seen in months. I hate drama.
Still, I'm in no hurry I can enjoy my morning a bit I guess.
Friday, May 29, 2009
No, I'm not dead
Thanks to the Queen I get this Monday off. It's not far away, just a weekend and then a paid day off. But having just completed my 10th consecutive day at work it is something I'm looking forward to, despite having no plans whatsoever. I'm hoping I'll just be basking in the glory of a Chiefs Super 14 title win. But I wont hold my breath.
The season comes to a close pretty soon and I'm in a nice position to deal with that. My credit card has gone from red to black and now Visa owes me 15 cents. I've also made some decent headway into my savings account which will allow me to carry on with my life plan of stall, stall and stall some more.
With the main kiwifruit season coming to a close I'm considering moving back down to Wellington in the hope I can stay down there and actually live in the flat I've been paying rent to. I've been here for 11 weeks now and working for 10 and a half of those. In that time I've been to Wellington for less than 24 hours and seen my friends once. Amazing when you consider how you get more time off on an oil rig or in the mines.
I may not be dead but this isn't exactly living either.
The season comes to a close pretty soon and I'm in a nice position to deal with that. My credit card has gone from red to black and now Visa owes me 15 cents. I've also made some decent headway into my savings account which will allow me to carry on with my life plan of stall, stall and stall some more.
With the main kiwifruit season coming to a close I'm considering moving back down to Wellington in the hope I can stay down there and actually live in the flat I've been paying rent to. I've been here for 11 weeks now and working for 10 and a half of those. In that time I've been to Wellington for less than 24 hours and seen my friends once. Amazing when you consider how you get more time off on an oil rig or in the mines.
I may not be dead but this isn't exactly living either.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
So I got on the horn and got some figures
$19,849.75
That's roughly were my student loan stands, after interest is taken out. It was made more complicated by being held in two parts by two government departments. The IRD holds about 12k and that was straight forward, but the Studylink part (which eventually makes its way to the IRD) was made complicated by the phone operator who tried to explain this shit at greater length than was needed. I mean, he could of left it with "that includes interest, which will be written off by the IRD" but he gave me the interest figure, as well as his side of the loan and there is roughly where I stand.
At $50 a week repayments I can kiss that goodbye in under 8 years :\ Of course with the student loan amendment I can get a 10% bonus by paying a contribution greater than $500, which would solve my "what do I do with the spare wads of $500 I have under my mattress" problem. I think I'll stick to minimum repayments for the meantime.
After all the loan is interest free, so that means inflation erodes it, while if I pay it off I miss that opportunity and gain 10%, but lose out on say perhaps, saving that money and getting interest. Granted 10% would still be higher than inflation and interest combined, but it' nice to have a buffer of money stored away.
That's roughly were my student loan stands, after interest is taken out. It was made more complicated by being held in two parts by two government departments. The IRD holds about 12k and that was straight forward, but the Studylink part (which eventually makes its way to the IRD) was made complicated by the phone operator who tried to explain this shit at greater length than was needed. I mean, he could of left it with "that includes interest, which will be written off by the IRD" but he gave me the interest figure, as well as his side of the loan and there is roughly where I stand.
At $50 a week repayments I can kiss that goodbye in under 8 years :\ Of course with the student loan amendment I can get a 10% bonus by paying a contribution greater than $500, which would solve my "what do I do with the spare wads of $500 I have under my mattress" problem. I think I'll stick to minimum repayments for the meantime.
After all the loan is interest free, so that means inflation erodes it, while if I pay it off I miss that opportunity and gain 10%, but lose out on say perhaps, saving that money and getting interest. Granted 10% would still be higher than inflation and interest combined, but it' nice to have a buffer of money stored away.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
I'm not even there and you fuck me off!
Wow you truly are a special kind of monster. You, VUWSA, have the astonishing ability to get under my skin no matter where I am in the world. I ranted about how useless you were last year, led by an aspiring Commie. And well I could save my self some trouble and copy and paste a bit of that last sentence.
I was surfing the tubes to discover my old student union has decided not to pay respect on ANZAC day, saying it would promote war. Surely we say things like 'least we forget' to not go down that path again.
Please VUWSA, please just dissolve. You had a good run, but really the only the thing you bring the students and alumni of Victoria is shame and disgrace. That and a semi decent magazine which is a completely separate entity from you.
I was surfing the tubes to discover my old student union has decided not to pay respect on ANZAC day, saying it would promote war. Surely we say things like 'least we forget' to not go down that path again.
Please VUWSA, please just dissolve. You had a good run, but really the only the thing you bring the students and alumni of Victoria is shame and disgrace. That and a semi decent magazine which is a completely separate entity from you.
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