Monday, June 27, 2005
Gravy
Missy and I want to move into a home before the "BIG DAY" next year. We have a plan to save up "our" money and have enough to put a large down payment on a house. We are both trying to make as much money as we can. I've been looking for another job to increase my income, while still maintaining an income from my current employer. She has been working on developing her own line of beauty products.
I have been disappointed with my last interview. I was called up the next day and offered a salary much lower than what I've already got, and this for a job where I would have to manage people and projects. Sure the projects were not that complicated and the interviewer tried to make it seem harder than it really would be, but still. An offer of $38,800 for the job of IT manager is almost insulting.
Missy has just started her part. She has created the products that she is looking to sell. She has put a lot of time and effort into her potential business. I have helped her in some ways. She came up with some basic sketches for the labels and I have made them pretty and appealing. In my opinion beauty products all smell similar, so the thing that has to set them apart would be packaging and design. I hope she does well and that the money she gets back makes up for all the time, effort, ingredients and what not that she has put into this project.
In any case, if things get no worse than they are right now, we should have $75K to play with and that should help us get a nice house... unless the housing bubble doesn't burst and just continues to grow. That would suck. We'd have to live in the ghetto or in the sticks, which is just as dangerous. But if I get another job or Missy makes any money selling her products, then that is just gravy.
I have been disappointed with my last interview. I was called up the next day and offered a salary much lower than what I've already got, and this for a job where I would have to manage people and projects. Sure the projects were not that complicated and the interviewer tried to make it seem harder than it really would be, but still. An offer of $38,800 for the job of IT manager is almost insulting.
Missy has just started her part. She has created the products that she is looking to sell. She has put a lot of time and effort into her potential business. I have helped her in some ways. She came up with some basic sketches for the labels and I have made them pretty and appealing. In my opinion beauty products all smell similar, so the thing that has to set them apart would be packaging and design. I hope she does well and that the money she gets back makes up for all the time, effort, ingredients and what not that she has put into this project.
In any case, if things get no worse than they are right now, we should have $75K to play with and that should help us get a nice house... unless the housing bubble doesn't burst and just continues to grow. That would suck. We'd have to live in the ghetto or in the sticks, which is just as dangerous. But if I get another job or Missy makes any money selling her products, then that is just gravy.
# posted by T.S. Idiot @ 10:57 AM 
