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Jul. 2nd, 2020 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesIt's Thursday, only it's Friday, because for once a holiday fell on a Saturday. Friday the 13th falls on a Monday this month, but that's beside the point.
I'm going to need a second job, because I've agreed in binding, but un-notarized, writing to buy this building in 3-5 years. It needs to be assessed for real, not just drive-by, because the inside is not worth $1.1 million. I would believe $800K or so. But $1.1 million is what some developer paid apiece for three triple deckers at the other end of the street. I wish the pandemic would reduce housing prices to somewhere sane. If I ran the universe...
So anyway, my ideal second job would be piece work like the Dachau transcriptions, that I can do from home for several hours at night. One of my cousins had an editing job like that for a while, but the company she worked for isn't hiring right now (I checked). And it's hard to find actual real jobs like that, because so many piece work from home job listings are scams, or MLM, or some other thing that will never actually make me any money.
I could, conceivably, save $100K in 3-5 years by putting my starving grad student hat back on, or at the very least by cutting my weekly walking-around money in about half and cutting down the grocery budget and canceling cable and taking Two Dots off my phone and not buying new books every weekend (when that can happen again; the bookstore is theoretically open, but apparently I'm not ready yet). I don't have to start from $0, at least, because I do have a savings account with five figures in it.
Having said that, though, I am sorely tempted to throw the budget out the window next week and order more takeout sushi than I actually want, in celebration of my birthday. I don't know how much sushi counts as "more than I actually want" considering I don't seem to have an off switch where sushi is concerned. And I haven't had actual good sushi in quite a while. My taste runs more to Genki Ya than O Ya, at least, and Whole Foods would have done in a pinch before it got too expensive to be as mediocre as it is.
I thought it was lunchtime, but it's meeting time. I wish this version of Outlook made a noise when somebody invites me to a meeting.
I'm going to need a second job, because I've agreed in binding, but un-notarized, writing to buy this building in 3-5 years. It needs to be assessed for real, not just drive-by, because the inside is not worth $1.1 million. I would believe $800K or so. But $1.1 million is what some developer paid apiece for three triple deckers at the other end of the street. I wish the pandemic would reduce housing prices to somewhere sane. If I ran the universe...
So anyway, my ideal second job would be piece work like the Dachau transcriptions, that I can do from home for several hours at night. One of my cousins had an editing job like that for a while, but the company she worked for isn't hiring right now (I checked). And it's hard to find actual real jobs like that, because so many piece work from home job listings are scams, or MLM, or some other thing that will never actually make me any money.
I could, conceivably, save $100K in 3-5 years by putting my starving grad student hat back on, or at the very least by cutting my weekly walking-around money in about half and cutting down the grocery budget and canceling cable and taking Two Dots off my phone and not buying new books every weekend (when that can happen again; the bookstore is theoretically open, but apparently I'm not ready yet). I don't have to start from $0, at least, because I do have a savings account with five figures in it.
Having said that, though, I am sorely tempted to throw the budget out the window next week and order more takeout sushi than I actually want, in celebration of my birthday. I don't know how much sushi counts as "more than I actually want" considering I don't seem to have an off switch where sushi is concerned. And I haven't had actual good sushi in quite a while. My taste runs more to Genki Ya than O Ya, at least, and Whole Foods would have done in a pinch before it got too expensive to be as mediocre as it is.
I thought it was lunchtime, but it's meeting time. I wish this version of Outlook made a noise when somebody invites me to a meeting.
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Date: 2020-07-04 05:31 pm (UTC)