DFSD's motivational ramblings...

debtfreesomeday

Urgh, back to work today, feels like I never left. It was extremely difficult to get out of bed this morning; I said to hubby how lovely it must be to have a job one enjoys.

Back to the DFW game today, and I shall work out the budget updates at lunch time today and see what the sales have cost us!
Lots of bills have come out of the account today so the balance has halved overnight, but they're all accounted for so it's no shock.

I received an email for a new bingo site today - £10 free bonus with no deposit required, so I'll take a look at that tonight and see what it's all about. If it looks any good, I'll sign up. Also need to do the scratchcards tonight and check the survey sites - I've lapsed with those over Christmas.

Off to earn some pennies now then...
DFSD
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My (so far one and only) ebay item ends in 8 hours and has bids of £16 on it currently. I have quite a few other bits to list on there, but have to figure out how to use my camera first... also not sure if just after Christmas is the best time to list things.

Have ordered a lovely healthy shop to be delivered on Wednesday which should tide us over for a good while.

Budget for this month not looking great, and I'm pretty sure we'll be overdrawn this month, but I'm not too worried about it as we only need to pay £325 off of the credit card this month (instead of the usual £400+) and the same next month, so that should make up for any little overdraft.

Now MUST stay off the grabbit board, it's costing me money!

DFSD

debtfreesomeday

My first day back to sitting on my bottom all day at my desk and I'm itching to get up and do something; so tonight I'll either go on the treadmill for half an hour or give the bathrooms and kitchen a good energetic clean! I hate having an office job, sitting at the desk all day is so depressing.

I took the tree and decorations down last night, so that job's out of the way. The house looks bare now without the tree, but it's lovely to get the space back. We need to put it all away up in the attic tonight.

My £2 coin tin has morphed into a £2 and 50p tin :cool: as I gained lots of 50p's over the holidays! There's £21 in there now - I'll wait until the total's a bit higher, maybe £50, and then pay it into the bank.

If I get the time/inclination, I'll also attempt to work out how to use my new camera tonight... we have a large painting we may be able to sell via the notice board at work that I need to photograph, as well as the ebay stuff.

Checked Quidco and £15 from jackp0t joy has validated, but I can't figure out when it will be paid out yet as I'm having trouble finding that bit on the new look site. This month would be good!

DFSD
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I have registered and deposited £10 on the bingo site I had an email from, got £10 free match and then won £29! Their withdrawal rules are very sketchy though so I shall not count my chickens with that one until it hits my bank account...

Chocforever

Hi

You sound like you have made good progress today. I can't figure out the new Quidco site either - it seems to have more graphics but less useful information.

Fingers crossed the bingo money comes through.

I'm heading back home tomorrow. I have had a lovely, relaxing time and now it is time to return to reality and put some plans into action.

CF

debtfreesomeday

Safe trip back home Chocs, hope the step back into reality isn't too harsh...

I'm thoroughly miserable tonight after my day at work; today reminded me just how much I hate it there and how rubbish it makes me feel.

Tomorrow sees the start of our healthy eating campaign - all meals are planned and packed where necessary!

Have done none of the 'active' jobs I planned for tonight, I might just go for a soak in the bath and try and get an early night. Not enough sleep definitely makes me grumpier!

DFSD
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ARGH! I had another bingo site offer - but just managed to mess it up and got confused with my depositing/withdrawing amounts and I think I'm down by by £11 after the previous bingo win from what I can work out. :mad::mad::mad: So I've just wasted our £29 win if I'm correct in thinking I've messed up! :mad::mad::mad: How bl00dy annoying and stupid of me.

My ebay item ended with £16.22 profit, so I guess I'm only £5 up this evening! :rolleyes::o:mad:

Off to bed before I lose us any more money!

DFSD
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debtfreesomeday

Another day, another dollar...

I went to bed last night feeling quite down, the bingo c*ck up didn't help my mood but it was mainly due to work and the lack of 'career' that I have. I always thought I'd be really successful in my career, I went to one of the best uni's for my field and did really well at school and college. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a job in the exact subject area I studied when I left uni, so went for something similar for a wage to tide me over, and have been stuck in that field ever since. Now, I'm earning a reasonable wage, and it's not a bad job, there are plenty that would like to take my place, but it's not a career and there's no progression. I could be here for the next 20+ years and my job would not change from day to day. It bores me so much, that my enthusiasm and motivation for anything is practically nil. Plus, I work with the most immature, self centred, racist people imaginable and every day consists of me sitting alone at my desk and barely talking.

I don't want to say exactly what I do as it would identify me to anyone who knows me who may be reading this and I don't want my family to know about our debts.

It has been bothering me more lately as most of my friends are now in there 30s and onto earning big money in jobs they love, or at the very least, jobs which interest them. Many have their own successful businesses and are extremely passionate about what they do. I'm so pleased for them, I really am, but I just want to enjoy my work too. I just feel like I've let myself and my family down, not that they would ever think that.

To get another job, I would need to retrain which we can't afford, and at nearly 31 with the hope of having children in the next couple of years, I don't have time for. Plus, the job situation round here is not great and there's no way we can move for quite a few years. I do feel like I've gone down the wrong career path and completely wasted my working life. "I could've done so much more" sums it up really.

For now, I have no choice but to plod on and earn the pennies...

What a light note to start the day on!!! I don't mean to be such a miserable b*gger so early in the morning - sorry!

DFSD
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Urgh, another friend just emailed me the link to their 5 bed brand spanking new, interior ready-styled executive house, a mere snip at £400K! _pale_:mad:

Chocforever

I really feel for you. It must be very difficult working in that environment and, presumably, if your field is quite specialist, there are limited places to move to. Can you use an MP3 player to divert your attention away from the annoying colleagues?

I am essentially indifferent to my job and I know what you mean about the deficiencies being highlighted after having time off. Once in the work routine, I don't think about it much. I'm not sure if that is a good or bad thing!

I thought long and hard about retraining and even made some headway into doing so. However, I have decided to stay put for now. Once I wrote down the pros and cons of the options I realised there were considerable benefits with staying in my current field and sometimes I need to remind myself of them. I am lucky in having a pleasant working environment and lovely colleagues.

31 isn't too late to change field. I think it will become more common for people to change their occupation during their working life. Many jobs are so portable around the world that I think we have to be more flexible than ever before. However, I do understand that career changing and starting a family would be very daunting. And there is maternity leave to consider.

Maybe it is worth career changing in 5 years time, perhaps to something totally different. Something where you could work partly at home to fit in with the family. If you can see an end to your current work situation, it might make it more manageable in the short term.

The bingo thing is annoying. I have certainly messed up one of these before and take the attitude that you win some, you lose some.

Hope you are having a better day today. Just think, you are making brilliant progress with the debts so that will soon be one less thing to worry about. You have a nice home and family. Don't let work spoil it.

It snowed so much overnight that I can't travel! I haven't seen so much snow since I was a child.

Best wishes,

CF