Right now, I'm not working. I hated my job so much (and especially my boss) that I recently told him off and quit. I was a manager at a local grocery store. In hindsight, it was a good gig as far as retail management goes. I made the schedules and I had a lot of freedoms. I was being groomed to move up. I still don't regret it. Little did those people know how much I really resented them. I will not do that kind of work for the rest of my life. That's time and misery that could have been so much better spent.
But it's not like I just snapped one day and quit. I've been saving and planning for this for a long time now. I paid up in full on a 6 month lease for my place. Not including the $8000 I've saved up, I also have plenty of spending money coming in from odd jobs. It's hard to make a living as a graphic designer around here, but it's at least a skill that's coming in handy for extra cash. A couple days worth of that each week will cover my extremely tiny amount of expenses for two weeks. I've found a printing firm who needed a pinch hitter to take on some of the more redundant design work. They specialize in signs, vehicle wraps, and other large-scale projects, but they do pretty much everything in between. Whatever they can get. The work comes in at a variable rate, but it always comes in. They can't afford to hire me even though they are busy and understaffed, so I accept a bit under the table in exchange for taking care of whatever lesser projects their artists don't have time for. Perhaps that will change in the future.
For fun money, I fix/upgrade computers and do guitar lessons for beginners. I also recently had solar fixtures installed, which are almost completely powering the house. What I pay for electricity is actually less than the electric company pays me just for having them rigged up and in-use, so that is win-win. It also helps that I have well water. All that I have to pay for is gas, food, cell phone, internet, and toiletries. I don't watch TV. I'm still included in my mom's health
insurance plan. Gas isn't really much of an issue since I prefer to bike if where I'm going is within 7 miles distance. I really only use the car to get groceries.
It's a simple, modest life, but I'm easy like that. All that I need is good company, good music (and my instruments,) good reading, basic amenities, and a working computer and I'm happy as can be. I'm not big on stuff or going out.
I'm pretty set on not working right now. Honestly, my past few jobs have left an awful taste in my mouth. I am loving this perhaps a bit too much! I've been very fortunate. I'd like to take this window to try and figure out which direction I want to go in. If I run low on cash/resources before I get onto a new career path, I can do anything retail or go run a forklift somewhere. But right now, I don't have to go into that, so I'm not.
And, I do removals,, as well.
