My issue is the fact that a family member of mine basically did the same job – starting back in the 80’s and working 20 years with them.  They had no prior experience so naturally I’m going to hope that they let that slide with me too.  The starting salary for them is about $40,000.  That’s all I need to get by, so hopefully something sticks.

I’m actively searching for a job up here.  I love Delaware but New York is really the place for me.  I was born here, raised here, and have so many things going on up here that I really don’t want to leave.  I truly appreciate everything that I have in Delaware, it’s just not “home” for me.  So I’ve gone through every job related website; Monster, HotJobs, CareerBuilder, SnagAJob, Craigslist – you name it, I’ve been to it.  I’ve put in applications for companies located everywhere from New York City to very fart out East on Long Island.  I haven’t gotten any phone calls yet, but I’m hoping to hear something soon.

I have some pretty big plans, but they all require a very solid income.  In order to live in New York (in your own apartment, utilities, food, whatever) you need to make at least $40,000 a year to have some kind of a savings account being maintained as well.  I’m not really too keen on living paycheck to paycheck so making anything from $40,000 a year, and up, is the route that I’m looking to take.

I’m putting in an application with Human Resources at the local hospital.  My father works there ,most of my family is employed there, and my Mom worked there for many years so they kind of know us.  I’ve also put in applications at a few different companies around here, mainly part-time kind of BS work but that would give me enough money so I can put some into a car.  I believe I’ll be moving first and then Sean is going to come up later on.  With this, I’m going to need my own means of transportation and with car insurance, and car payments, plus my other bills I figure about $700 a month in bills going out to cover everything.  A part time job of about $200 a week should be able to cover that.  After that, I can still push the applications to higher paying jobs and continue with part-time work on the weekends so I can bring in some extra money to handle food and making sure Bella is OK with her vet checkups and food as well.

It’s a big deal, a very big deal.  I’ll stay with my father until I can handle being out on my own.  After that I’m really not sure of what I’ll need to do to maintain it after the 40-hour work week but damn am I going to give it all I’ve got.  I put it many applications down in Delaware, for jobs all over Sussex County but I’ve been unable to hear anything, even for the stupid $7 an hour part-time retail work.  It’s pretty damn annoying.

In any event, I need to float around on some sites and put in some more applications.

: crosses fingers :

In other news, I have a few new projects under my belt.  Hopefully it will bring in a decent amount of money in upcoming months so that Sean and I are able to go forward with our plans and possibly move up to New York.  I’m more comfortable up here, it’s very easy for me to concentrate on things as well.  He’s noticing the same thing, even though he’s not used to “city living” with all of the street noise, he’s still able to put his head into work with absolutely no problem at all.

A perk would be that my grandmother has an available apartment, the downside would be that it’s $1,000 a month.  However – everything is included (heat/water/gas) so there really would be no issues there but the fact that in order to just live would cost us about $1600 a month (after cable/internet/phone and food) is a bit of a damper.  Not to mention car insurance and gas prices in New York are a little extreme.  So it’s a lot to think about but I think if we can both get to the point where we have about $4000 a month (in total) coming in – we should be absolutely fine.

He’s been on my iMac for the last week ( I brought it up with me ) and now he’s absolutely in love with it and wants to get one of his own.  While I can’t afford it right now I’m certainly thinking of getting him one in the future.  An iMac for an iMac – heh.

There were a lot of server issues with this move, the back-ups weren’t properly created so it set a massive server load that I’ve just spent the last hour fixing.  I had to go through all of the accounts individually and remove the backups.  I also made it a point to change my password.  Hopefully I can get everything moved over (again) within the next day or so (personal-stuff wise) so that the company can take care of the clients for me.  I’d rather move my own things personally because it gives me an excuse to clear things out.  When it comes to the clients I like to leave that stuff up to the professionals.

I’m up in New York for a couple of days.  I came up here to see my father and sister for their birthdays (3 days apart – shopping this month has sucked).  I was looking forward to going down to Ocean City, MD for the fourth of July but Sean informed me of the unwanted house-guest for the 4th so we decided to stay up here and look for alternate methods.  Maybe we’ll wind up going down to Morgan’s Park or something, I don’t really know.  Either way we’re looking into firework alternatives so I guess we’ll just play it by ear.

For now it’s knocking on 4am, and considering I need to be up in 4 hours I guess it’s time to get some sleep.

I’ve filled out my FAFSA and I’m working on getting things together for admissions at the University of Phoenix Online. I’m going for my bachelors degree and I hope to be able to bring in enough money so I can afford to complete the degree. If I had no student-aid to back me up I’d have to shell out a little over $60,000 to complete the course. Since I don’t have that to just throw around I know that scholarships, grants, and the potential for student loans (down the road) will be the only way. I hope to have all of the technical stuff figured out in the future. I just know that I’m finally pushing for it and damn is it going to happen.

In any event, I reinstalled MarsEdit so I can start blogging again. My only dislike for the program is the lack of ability to add proper TAGS to the entry. I think there should be some kind of an add-on for it in the future. I’ll have to bring it up to support.

Who knows what’s going to show up.  I have put in quite a few bids on GAF and I’ve applied to numerous companies around the globe for both local and telemarketing work.  I just hope SOMETHING picks up soon because I’m going to need to bring in at least $1500 a month to cover all of my bills and I’m lucky to touch $500 at this point.  Thank god for a savings account, or I wouldn’t be able to do ANYTHING right now.

I’m also hoping to hear from a few other companies. They would be online based jobs that I can work with on my own time. I do hope to land a few big freelance positions over the course of the next couple of weeks. I know a lot of places are looking for seasonal workers, maybe the summer season will turn out to be a good one for me. Who knows.

Today it’s just a bitter cold with a lot of wind. I know tomorrow isn’t going to be much better but that’s OK, life still needs to move on – right?

I also have to go to the DMV and get a few things changed over so that’ll be a Monday trip for me. If I can make it until Tuesday I may do the Maryland trip the following day. This is all based on an important factor though, job interview on Friday. I don’t want to go back into retail but that’s the only job I can find down here that doesn’t require me to truck it all over the state of DE. If I’m lucky it’ll be full-time but based on how things go around here I’m sure it’s going to be two part-time jobs if I happen to hear from another place I applied to.

At the same time, I’ve found two freelance positions for design work – I submitted my resume there as well. I’m beyond desperate for change these days.