One More Arrow in the Quiver
Kind of strange thing has happened for the last two weeks. I fall asleep sometime shortly after I get off work between 9:00pm to midnight. Then I wake up a few hours later, never more than 4 hours. Then I am awake until 10:00 am then I fall back asleep and wake up for work. This schedule is driving me crazy. When I wake up I hope that it is like 7:00 am but it is always 2:00am. I am feeling the effects on my mind, body and soul.
So I have been trying to find out a way to make over $30,000 a year. That is pretty much the amount of money per year I need to live a life that I was accustomed to growing up. Currently I make about half that working part-time.
My big idea was to take over the driver contractor position.
Anyway I got the actual figures the other day and frankly it would be a boon. I could make easily$25,000 a year doing relatively nothing. If I worked 4 days a week I would make close to 50,000.
I want to do this but I have to buy out the current contractor. I talked to him last week and he said $25,000 I could buy him out and get his trucks. His trucks are not worth that but I would gladly take the offer because I believe I could make it up in the near future and upgrade.
I talked to my boss and he was okay with the idea but he doesn’t believe the current contractor with sell. Our contractor is gregarious and frankly anything he says I take with a grain of salt. But everytime I see him he complains about this and that. I know financially he doesn’t need the job.
I asked my parents if they would loan me the money to buy him out. It seems quite unlikely they want to. But my Dad is coming down here this weekend before we go to Louisville to visit my brother.
With all that said I am just about out of ideas or options. I don’t know how I will maintain my current life. I doubt I can. With the flood of graduate students and the current unemployment rates I really don’t want to go back to school right now. The state budgets will be cut in the next few years and teaching positions will again be harder and harder to come by. I don’t want to go to graduate school living on the edge again.
I don’t where to cut money anymore. I tried to get a cheap house and failed (no one is lending for houses under $70,000). After my lease is up in May I will likely pop up my tent in Delaware County and live in state park. That is what my future looks like.