I found this post sitting in my draft box, and figured wow, what an appropriate time to post considering I just left my job.
Well, like the title of this post says, I feel like I’m “entitled” to unemployment. I feel like I should be able to benefit from this if I were to quit, after all my tax money went into it didn’t it? But, at the same time, I see a problem with the idea that I should get unemployment benefits for leaving under my own choice.
I was just over at one of my favorite blogs, It’s Just Money, hosted by a person I’ve coined LAMoneyDude, and he had a post titled, “Living Paycheck to Paycheck: Reality vs. WTF.” In case you didn’t know what WTF means, here’s a link. 
The term “living paycheck to paycheck” definitely has a different meaning depending on who you are and whether you’re looking at it from above (making more) or below (making less). For me, it means being able to survive on the money you bring in every week. No luxuries, just necessities. Apparently to some, it means spending up to how much you make each week…hmph.
It’s odd, during the past few months, since work sucked so badly, I lost all interest in finances and life in general. I just didn’t care. If I liked alcohol, I could easily imagine sucking it up until I lost all sense of life. Pretty depressing huh? Well, that’s really what things felt like.
I skipped my November net worth analysis, and I am just catching up with my December one. So the % increase is really skewed because it’s a comparison of 2 months ago vs today. It’s pretty cool that I can declare my net worth is a “quarter million dollars.”
I’ll write more in the next few posts about my job and my decision to leave, but in the first post since my decision to take a hiatus from blogging, I’ll write about a financial consideration of leaving…My blog is supposed to be a “PF Blog” ya know. It’s in typical freedumb fashion…discombobulated and very short on details. Too bad, I’m just getting warmed up.
May 2007 bring you happiness and financial freedom!
With warmest regards,
Freedumb & Brownie
How the Whole “It’s Just a Few More Dollars” Attitude Makes Me Poorer
I’m deciding between ordering a medium or large “coffee” drink, and low and behold, a large is _just_ $0.40 more! Seems like everything being sold has an “upsell.” Might as well “go large” since it’s just a few cents more, right? Well, I was kind of curious as to who really wins when you upgrade, so I decided to break it down…sort of. Because the numbers used aren’t “real,” but hey…It’s a start.
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