Road To Financial Recovery

Spendywendywoo

@FootyFanDan, If you're taking on more work then potentially reviewing current workload would be good too? Are they backfilling the role? If it's a more senior role, could a promotion be on the cards if you are taking their work on too? I hope the meeting goes well and you get from it what you want / need

FootyFanDan

@lucielle @Spendywendywoo
Thank you both . The meeting went well, the person leaving was unexpected but we are doing a lot recruiting at the minute so I am sure it will get back-filled at some point, I will probably provide support to a few others . The role isn't really a more senior role but experience none the less.

FootyFanDan

Happy Friday - hope everyone had a good week.
This week has been pretty decent, not sure what the change has been but work (even when stressful) as felt good, I have slept pretty well all week too. I have decided to keep going at this job - while I think the other job will be a little less stressful, I also think my mind would be bored in a role just clock watching. I think if I am being honest I am looking for a perfect job and reality is that probably doesn't exist. I feel like I am well paid for what I do and the only time I am stressed is either due to feeling like I don't know something or when I have made an error (this usually as come from poor planning on my part).

This weekend is going to be more de-cluttering as not at football this weekend. I think we might go shopping on tomorrow for a few hours and go get food.

Hope everyone has a good weekend

FootyFanDan

Wide awake club!
Hope everyone is doing well. Yesterday was a pretty standard day, feel like I am catching up on stuff a bit now. I am starting to get into a decent routine with things now. 

Food spends yesterday within budget and filled car up to last (hopefully) two weeks. There are no planned business travel so should be fine

Topped up pots and small over payment to Monzo

FootyFanDan

Pots Balance - 11.03.2025

Emergency Funds - £125
London 2025 - £150 (Due to go away in July)
Car Maintenance - £25 (slowly re-building as just used this up for Service & MOT)
Xmas 2025 - £70

We have also paid out £40 towards the little one's residential which is due to be paid in October, so slowly going to chip away at this.

One thing to celebrate which I never thought I would be is that this year for the first time in a long time, we go into a new council tax year with no overdue balance - this means although it has increased in cost my direct debit is actually cheaper by £25 per month as not playing catch up. 

I am very conscious of trying to find a balance between paying down debt but also trying to build a good back up as well. I have always struggled with the concept of putting money to the side as always just dealt with stuff as it happens, but seeing how much less stressful it is having that money aside really as been an eyeopener. 

I would like to be in a place to pay my car insurance in full but not sure I am quite there yet - its due end of March.

FootyFanDan

Today's Work Plan

Set up my email templates :- been meaning to do this for so long, a lot of email traffic is pretty standard stuff and pretty repetitive, so figure if I can set some time aside it will benefit me in the long run

Run through my current projects and set up deadlines and next actions :- I am currently trying to work on a task tracker. As I work in maintenance my projects are very much along the same steps each time. So I am thinking of setting up just a simple spreadsheet with the list of tasks - all in order of how it needs to be completed to move onto next step. Some stuff I can work on in background, others are reliant on others. It sounds so basic but just never set time aside to do it as since I started its been pretty full on.

Setup Report Template Statements :- Again as with email, I go through a lot of reports. These are also pretty straight forward but a lot of typing out. I am going to put together a word document with this information in. 

Quotation Templates :- Set these up. I have a few quotes that I compile daily. These are done via excel first, so I am going to create templates for the most used ones. 

Hopefully doing this today whilst time consuming, I built myself a bit of free time in and it will benefit me in the long run. I am a nightmare for just saving files everywhere 😂🤷‍♂️, so last week I archived everything and started again. I slowly worked through the archive and deleted what wasn't needed and set up a new filing system which is so far making things so much easier. It seems simple doing the above and would make some of my daily processes a lot easier, silly that I haven't done it before really.

Today is going to be a audiobook and admin day - but first coffee.

LzzyIsGod

That was a productive early morning start! 

FootyFanDan

LzzyIsGod said:

That was a productive early morning start! 

Haha, far too early for my liking 🤣. Today was totally opposite 

Spendywendywoo

@FootyFanDan, that sounds like a very productive day! How did you get on? 

FootyFanDan

Spendywendywoo said:

@FootyFanDan, that sounds like a very productive day! How did you get on? 

It actually went to plan which is very unusual 🤣.  I still have a few templates to go but I managed a simple project tracker and maintenance schedules for my major clients so a successful day was had.

Today it’s pretty much inbox clearing day ha