Jobs and Money
Mar. 30th, 2002 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerErin has a new job. She was offered the one she interviewed for on Thursday. She's going to be a PA to a bigwig at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Edinburgh. It's a 40 second walk from the station, which is cool, although she'll want to move back as soon as she can afford it.
I was overjoyed at this. Erin was happy, but less so. She wants to work in film. Film is where she wants to be. She's taking this job not because she wants to be a PA, but for the money. Which is fine. I'm sure that not that many people wake up one morning and think "My perfect job would be to assist someone." But she needs to take the money because we need to dig ourselves back out of debt.
The problem being that each day that she spends in a non-film job is another day she spends not getting closer to what she wants to do. She's been getting herself closer to getting film work for the last few months, and if she had a driving license she'd have had paid film work by now. Unfortunately, to get a driving license, we need money to pay for it. To get money to pay for it, she needs to be doing not-film work.
So we're left with Erin working for a few months while we save up enough money to get her a driving license, then working in a horribly low-paid film job for experience, then stopping when we run out of money, and getting a well paying job again, etc, etc. The main problem there being that part-time jobs pay remarkably badly, so it takes quite a long time to save up.
I hate having to worry about money, but I'm forced into it by the current lack. I sincerely hope that Erin gets herself a decent wage in a job she likes, because that would sort us out permanently. I'm just worried that things are going to drift on like this, leaving both of us stressed and unhappy.
I was overjoyed at this. Erin was happy, but less so. She wants to work in film. Film is where she wants to be. She's taking this job not because she wants to be a PA, but for the money. Which is fine. I'm sure that not that many people wake up one morning and think "My perfect job would be to assist someone." But she needs to take the money because we need to dig ourselves back out of debt.
The problem being that each day that she spends in a non-film job is another day she spends not getting closer to what she wants to do. She's been getting herself closer to getting film work for the last few months, and if she had a driving license she'd have had paid film work by now. Unfortunately, to get a driving license, we need money to pay for it. To get money to pay for it, she needs to be doing not-film work.
So we're left with Erin working for a few months while we save up enough money to get her a driving license, then working in a horribly low-paid film job for experience, then stopping when we run out of money, and getting a well paying job again, etc, etc. The main problem there being that part-time jobs pay remarkably badly, so it takes quite a long time to save up.
I hate having to worry about money, but I'm forced into it by the current lack. I sincerely hope that Erin gets herself a decent wage in a job she likes, because that would sort us out permanently. I'm just worried that things are going to drift on like this, leaving both of us stressed and unhappy.
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Date: 2002-03-30 03:13 am (UTC)It never works though. I hate people who worry about money and I hate being one of them. I've had a vice forced on me.
So in conclusion...
Poor Erin
Working in the arts
Date: 2002-03-30 03:44 am (UTC)Hugh