Bills To That

03-02-2010

Looking at your bank balance barely a week after getting paid and realising that all of your wages for the month have been spent on bills is a lot on the depressing side.

Not a little. A lot.

I can see why January is classed as being the most depressing month of the year. Every single bill hits you at the same time. It's just too much cash to have to hand over to other people with nothing to show for it. ESB, phone, gas, rent, car tax. All of these came within days of each other.

Not to mention that the gas is nearly five times what we paid on the last bill due to the cold snap and the stupid requirement of needing heat to stay alive. I always think that in situations like that, where it is literally a case of freezing to death or ending up in debt, there should be some special circumstances. Like maybe being giving the option of paying massive bills in installments because they were created due to extreme weather conditions.

I am not talking about leaving the heat on for a week while you go on holidays and then trying to weasel out of that bill. But it was fairly obvious that the country was freezing its nads off so the gas company could have taken that into account as they reaped the massive benefits of a country that had to turn the heat up just to stay moving.

But they don't, they won't, and so my monies disappear before I even knew I had them.

Which has brought up the job hunt again. If I get told one more time that "I am a shoe in for the pay raise" in work I might kill the person that tells me. I have turned down two jobs because of that sentence and yet I am still here sitting on the same wages I started on three years ago.

So I have been bouncing around the job sites seeing what is out there. Some very promising, some not so much, some I wouldn't even dare apply for. I have a CV near completed that just needs a little tweak to make it finished and then its getting sent out into the big bad world. All because at the end of the day I can't cut back on anything else that I haven't cut back on already without actually becoming one of those people that works to live literally to keep afloat. Most of the jobs that I am qualified for and have experience for have starting wages way above what I earn now. Yes, it's all about the money at the end of the day, because while I might be getting job satisfaction by knowing that I do good work I ain't getting rewarded for said work.

It will be a little strange actually hunting for a job. In the past I have gotten my work by being recommended to the person seeking to employee.

But God loves a trier, or so I hear. So HE should be partial to a jester as well.

Blue_jester