Today is Monday. I was laid off on Thursday morning. I have never been laid off before. What a way to start the year. The company I was working for had not been doing well financially so I was definitely concerned about my position and had started applying for jobs prior to the holidays. There… Continue reading Laid Off
I recently read The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel. Lately I’ve been trying to take notes when reading non-fiction books. The notes really just consist of my favorite quotes from the books. Here is one of my favorite quotes from The Psychology of Money: Do not aim to be coldly rational when making financial… Continue reading Rational vs Reasonable
Pursuing FI, it’s easy to get SO wrapped up in thinking that money is everything, the be-all and end-all. But it’s really not. I had some conversations over the past couple of weeks that have reminded me that. The first conversation was with my Dad. For some background, my Dad is one of my favorite… Continue reading Money Isn’t Actually Everything
We finally did it. And no, not the house in the picture – though it looks amazing. We finally had an offer accepted. We officially started house-shopping two months ago. We’d made 3 previous offers. The first house we offered on we offered $50K below the highest offer. On the second house we were $18K… Continue reading We Bought A Freaking House
Two days ago I wrote a post titled Life-Sucking Work. Yesterday, I received a somewhat unexpected raise and I’m happier than ever. Ha. I am very very happy about this raise. I received a 15% increase and have been at my job for just five months now. I was also given a promotion, but because… Continue reading I Got A Raise
If I haven’t made it obvious, I’m not a big fan of work. I don’t necessarily hate all work, but I hate how it takes my time. I hate how it makes me too tired to do much else during the week. I hate how it makes me feel. We had nearly nine months off… Continue reading Life-Sucking Work.
Apparently it’s not as easy to buy a home as I expected. I ignorantly thought that we’d see a house we could picture ourselves living in, present an offer to the seller, go back and forth with the seller over the price once or twice, sign some papers, and then bam, we’d have a house.… Continue reading It’s Not Easy To Buy A Home
I’ve officially been working from home for 3 full months now – yay, I passed probation! While being back to work mostly sucks, there are perks of being a fully remote employee. Clothing – Whenever I’ve started new jobs in the past, I’ve gone out and purchased new clothes – nothing excessive, I’m not one… Continue reading Observations on WFH Life
It feels shameful to admit it, but I want to own a house. I’ve read many of Millennial Revolutions anti-home-ownership posts to know better. I’m a big fan of theirs, and being from Canada I appreciate their knowledge of the Canadian housing market because it is tremendously different from the US market. I also highly… Continue reading I Want A House
I’ve officially been back to work for five full weeks now after having almost 9 months away from full-time work so I thought I’d share some of my observations and feelings. Sorry if this is depressing. Welcome to Thinking of Money. 🙂 For context, I landed a fully remote job working for a tech company.… Continue reading Back to Work – 5 Week Update
