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LonelyRat's (not so lonely) Road to Riches

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  • Lucifa73
    Lucifa73 Posts: 7,726 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Hope you enjoy your first day Lovely! Look forward to the update later x
    26.2.19/14.1.19: T MC 3629.26/3629.26 : VM 0% 1050/13876.59 : W 0% 100/1485 = 4409.26/18990.85 =25.17%
    28.1.19/28.1.19 Hubs 0% £400/£2,977 =13.44%
    SPC 2019 #073


  • lonelyrat wrote: »
    Silver Queen and Lucifa :eek: Nosey parkers :rotfl: haha! It's near box hill in Surrey. I'll leave it at that for now, but may divulge more at a later date!


    My OH and I are talking about moving to Redhill...:cool:
    Debt Totals July 2019::
    [STRIKE]£350 Natwest Credit Card [/STRIKE]/ ]Now £0 (paid off and closed 04/2017) £15,500 postgrad loan from parents/ Now £7,000 £5,000 sister loan/ Now £0[STRIKE]£500 train ticket loan from parents [/STRIKE]/ Now £0 (paid off 16/02/18)[STRIKE]£2,000 Overdraft[/STRIKE] Now £0 (paid off 09/03/18) £1,967.83 Barclays 0% card Now £0
    Total £7,000
  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 10,007 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    I hope your first day in your new job went well. :)
    If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them

    Emergency fund 100/1000
    Buffer fund 0/100
    Debt Free (again) 25/072025
  • lonelyrat
    lonelyrat Posts: 567 Forumite
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    Hello, thanks for the messages! First day went well (although I did throw up in the bathroom as soon as I got there :eek: not sure why, potentially just nerves! I felt spewey for the rest of the day so it wasn't particularly enjoyable - BUT I made it through the day without mucking anything up/ saying anything stupid!)

    Day two was far better and today was great! It's a really nice work environment and so, so different to a call centre. It's fab. I started off doing some training, but that's been paused now and I've just been doing general admin which I enjoy so I'm quite happy :)

    Tomorrow I'm going for food after work with one of the girls and on Friday we're all going out for food :o Looking forward to it, but a bit nervy for tomorrow in case I come across really weird :rotfl:

    Am going to have to use the overdraft this month - I've just accepted it :o It's annoying, but after I get paid next month I can clear whatever I've used. I'm planning on sitting down this weekend to sort through my debt and see exactly where I am.
    Silver Queen ... :eek: that would be veeeeery close to me ;)
    Total Debt : ?? / ??
  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 10,007 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    It may have been nerves. I throw up in situations like that sometimes...
    The good news is it seems like a nice environment with nice people.
    You deserve this :)
    If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them

    Emergency fund 100/1000
    Buffer fund 0/100
    Debt Free (again) 25/072025
  • Ahh I'm so pleased it went well, I'd agree it's nerves I get very nauseous when I'm nervous!

    It's great you're already doing social stuff with your new colleagues too.. I'm sure you'll get on just fine :D xx
  • I'm so glad it went well!

    That area of Surrey is absolutely gorgeous, it obviously won't be as good as where you were before in terms of scenery but it's still pretty amazing!

    Might bump into you up box hill :p
    Debt Totals July 2019::
    [STRIKE]£350 Natwest Credit Card [/STRIKE]/ ]Now £0 (paid off and closed 04/2017) £15,500 postgrad loan from parents/ Now £7,000 £5,000 sister loan/ Now £0[STRIKE]£500 train ticket loan from parents [/STRIKE]/ Now £0 (paid off 16/02/18)[STRIKE]£2,000 Overdraft[/STRIKE] Now £0 (paid off 09/03/18) £1,967.83 Barclays 0% card Now £0
    Total £7,000
  • I'm so glad the job is going well. I can just feel your enthusiasm through my screen.

    Take care

    SM
    debt consolidated 16/8/18 £9,788.01/£12,618.12 :( (Total debt at LBM 1st Jan '18 c..£19.5k)
    EF/FIT savings £97.24 Other Savings £12.17 House Deposit £4,762.64/£20,000 23.8% :D
  • Lucifa73
    Lucifa73 Posts: 7,726 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Starmummy is right - your happiness is legible! Enjoy your nights out x
    26.2.19/14.1.19: T MC 3629.26/3629.26 : VM 0% 1050/13876.59 : W 0% 100/1485 = 4409.26/18990.85 =25.17%
    28.1.19/28.1.19 Hubs 0% £400/£2,977 =13.44%
    SPC 2019 #073


  • lonelyrat
    lonelyrat Posts: 567 Forumite
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    Starmummy and Lucifa73 I'm glad you can *feel* my happiness haha! First week went really well. Was just on admin duty, but it's just a really nice environment (struggling to believe it compared to my last place DIA ). Am absolutely pooped though, going from part time to full time is more tiring than I thought it would be :eek:

    Silverqueen - the plan is to go up Box hill tomorrow! It is a very pretty place :o It's so quiet as well. Before we had amazing scenery that we could go to, but here we're just in the amazing scenery :cool: Am excited for when the weather turns and we can start going camping!

    SSDD23 The last two nights have been lots of fun and not too expensive. Two meals out for £35 which I'm quite impressed by!

    Plans for today are to unpack.... I've been too tired by the time I get home and the place is a mess. Am thinking that the unpacking will likely take up all day but if I have some time I want to sit down and go through my bank accounts/ cc's and see where I stand. I also want to meal plan for next week as I'm hoping OH will agree to make dinner for me coming in after work (not very likely, but I can ask :rotfl:)
    Total Debt : ?? / ??
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