29 Aug 2002 miah   » (Journeyer)

Ugh, finacial issues again.. Money is the one thing I constantly stress about since losing my last well paying job. Right now I'm working part time for Brigham and Womens Hospital, in Boston. I work in the NRIMS lab (National Resource for Imaging Mass Spectrometry). Its a very fun job, doing alot of SysAdmin type stuff, and other fun creative things. Unfortunately, I only work 4-10hours a week. Going from a 65k+ salary position to a 10k hourly position is a very difficult thing, especially when you live in Boston and everything costs way more than it should.

So, the beginning of this month we sent in a payment for my car loan. Days went by and the bank called me asking where my payment was, we checked the bank and sure enough, the check hadn't been cashed yet. After having the bank call me 5 times asking where the money was, and letting me know my car was going to get repo'd, I paid a chunk with the "check by phone" service. We figured that the check was on its way back to us since it had been 3 weeks since we sent it out and hadn't got there yet. Our luck couldn't have that happen though, the check was deposited yesterday by my bank. So instead of one $350 payment this month, we made 2. (my payment is alot lower than that, but we had late fee's and such). My car loan is definately up to date now, but now we're $350 short. We're likely going to have to borrow money from family again.. Not fun..

If anybody knows of a company in the Boston area looking to hire a Linux geek, please send them my way. I have a copy of my resume on www.sunrise-linux.com.

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