Friday Hodge Podge
Day 26 | $24,666 paid | $66,051 till freedom
Legalized Prostitution
I was at the gym after work today, and when I got back to the locker room, this text was waiting for me from an ex:
Message 1: saw you again..I must say I love your body...
Message 2: Going to be out for a bit tonight...I know you r trying to save money...but if I buy...would you join?
My ex goes to the same gym, and I'm guessing she saw me while I was working out.
Definitely feeling like a piece of meat right now, but at the same time...hey, what's a guy to do?
New Day Job Is Great for NMHD
In other news, the new job is definitely supports my cause. My new role deals with strategic alliances/business development, and I had a lunch today with a supplier. It was my first ever B2B business lunch, and it was a great change of pace from what I'm used to, work-wise and lunch-wise.
Work-wise, as a product line manager, I worked with a number of groups internally, from marketing to engineering to supply chain, and beyond. Lunch-wise, I cook two boxes of spaghetti at home on Sunday and bring it to work for lunch every day. On Thursday, I had an exernal-facing meeting with a supplier for lunch, and also had a delicious reuben sandwich...for free. AWESOME. Right now, life is all about the big things (career development) and the little things (free lunch).
George Best
I saw this quote on my buddy's FB wall and I'm stealing it shamelessly.
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
Reminds me of somebody I know. ...Or used to know? TBD.
We Are Useless
My friend, Sunil, sent an email out to the crew on Wednesday afternoon--the crew being my close group of friends--that sparked an interesting exchange.
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 4:01 PM
To: The Crew
Forbes came out with their list….
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was the biggest dollar gainer on the list, with a net worth of $17.5 billion that earned him the No. 14 spot.
From: Khalid
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 4:07 PM
To: The Crew
Subject: RE: We are USELESS!!!!
Sunil,
We are not useless.. but we are clearly not hungry enough..
NMHD is proving that motivation can get you places.. by pedi-cab or lawn mower..
Kidding aside – we’re in a situation where the corporation will take 12 hours from each of our days and pay us enough to be happy, but not enough to break our dependence on it..
By the time we make enough money to invest or break away, we’ll be too old and have too many responsibilities to risk it all..
What to do? Let’s talk..
Oh, and one more thing.. Mark Z ain’t got sh*t on us!!!
Cheers,
Of course I absolutely had to get a jab in, especially after what I had blogged about the night before.
From: Me
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 4:10 PM
To: The Crew
Subject: RE: We are USELESS!!!!
Saying you’re useless by equating your net worth to your self-worth is sad.
I’m planning to get out of debt so I have a wider range of options going forward—which may include selling my house and getting completely out of the rat race.
I completely agree with Khalid's assessment. It looks like my friends are getting hungry--or will need to get hungry if they want to stop talking and actually do something. And I'll soon be in a position where I'll have some free cash flow...good things could happen if we want to work for it.
This Weekend
This weekend I'm going to go through the SAT curriculum to prep for the training/interview session on Monday. I need to nail it. The job pays $25/hour, and there's about three hours of work a week, or $300/month, so $2,700 over the next nine months.
Michael and I don't have any customers yet for our landscaping business, so we're going to buy some signage for his yard that he landscaped, flyer up some neighborhoods, then take a couple sections of his fence down and work on his backyard, which he's upgrading. Michael said he always gets several passersby asking him if he'll do their yard whenever he works on his backyard. I said he's just trying to get free work out of me! That being said, it will allow us to do time studies and rationalize our pricing system.
I'm also going out tomorrow night with the crew for the first time in three weeks. Pretty darn pumped for that. Flask-in-hand (or pocket), of course.
Comments on Your Comments
Last night, I spent a an hour or two trying to reply to all the comments that dated back to the beginning of this blog. My life was super busy when I started this blog, and I regretted not being able to reply to comments, but now that I've caught up, I plan on being more prompt with comment replies.