New job. New city. New house. How's that for a good excuse?
That's right. I'm living in NYC and fulfilling a life-long dream. Finishing What I Start. And it feels pretty good. Most of the time.
My new job is crazy busy. It got busy on my 3rd day and hasn't stopped since. Most days, I'm amazed to look at a clock and see it's already 4pm. I often don't have time for lunch. I stay late. There are never enough hours in the day for everything I need to do. I manage people. I travel frequently. I make a lot more money. It's everything I was looking for. It's exhausting. I have my good days and my bad days. But I'm focusing on getting as much out of this opportunity as I can while I have it. Because this is temporary. Everything is more palatable when it has a time limit. I work better with time restraints.
One of the biggest opportunities from this job is more money. More money to pay off some more debt. Are you ready for it to get real up in this blog? More money to pay of $44k of debt. That's right, a $24k student loan and a $20k home equity line. Wow. Those numbers look a lot bigger/more real now that I wrote them down.
But like I say at the top of this blog: small steps make big steps, big steps make changes. And every small payment made towards this debt will help bring them down. My ultimate goal? To pay off my student loan by the 10 year anniversary of graduation. That's May of 2012. This upcoming May. As in 6 months away. $20k in 6 months. Am I setting myself up for failure? Maybe. Or maybe I've just raised the gauntlet super high. And I will destroy that uber-aggressive goal. We'll see how it all works out in 6 months.
