LonelyRat's (not so lonely) Road to Riches

Hello Kitten *waves* Lovely to meet you The OH situation drives me mad in little bits.... Sometimes I don't mind, but other times it sends me up the wall! I've been feeling the stress a wee bit lately, purely because I really want to be out of debt and moving and starting our life, but he seems to just want to continue to be stuck in a rut. I really can't plod along for much longer :rotfl: I think it may just be because I'm a bit older than him (3 years). He's just finished uni and wants to relax whereas I was working the whole way through his uni course and am now feeling really quite fed up with it!

He has spent the last few days sending out applications again and got a couple of responses about interviews. Today I am going to make sure he follows up and actually calls the people to organise :A At this stage it'll only be a months wage he brings in before we move, but that would help massively. Not actually sure where we stand with his Very I log on, check the amount that's due and pay it once a month but I don't delve any deeper. I know that's burying my head in the sand kind of behaviour but that is his debt and he's going to be dealing with it when he can. OR I'll be properly dealing with it when he has an income and I can take stock and snowball him :rotfl:

I have a tentative plan for when he does have a job... Whenever I log into one of my current accounts (which is the joint one with him) there's a promotional message about a balance transfer CC. We have a large OD with them which never gets used and I move money through the account every month so I think we are OK/ not too risky customers. I don't want to take on any more debt but I got him to do an eligibility checker and he's very likely to be approved for a balance transfer card with them. He can't do it now as he has no income, but once he does I want to see if we can get that for him and move the majority of his CC debt onto that card. Then at least that would be 0% and we can focus on whatever is left on his Very.

It's lovely to hear about other people with degrees who aren't in some high flying graduate role... The confidence thing is massive! I have such a fear of rejection that I applied for graduate roles, got interviews and then was too afraid of failing and would cancel them. No one to blame but myself really
We braved the shed during the clear out/ cleaning that I did last week :eek: Sofa is actually doing pretty well! Am now considering taking it down South with us now as my Dad's sofa is pretty uncomfortable/ small. I will have a look around the house and size up room etc. when I go down at the end of the week.....

... Which brings me to my biggest update! Interview scheduled for Friday! :cool::cool::cool: Still not heard back from the other one, but ideally they can do Friday or Saturday as well. Am just booking my travel down and it's pretty eye watering considering how skint I am. But it will be an investment in my future happiness.

Train works out at £150 whereas flying is a wee bit cheaper at £100... BUT if I were to fly I would need to pay £10 for a bus to and from the airport here and £12 for the train from the airport to my Dad's house and back. If the flight was to be delayed on the way to England, even by 20 minutes, I would miss the last train and have to shell out for a taxi at £35. So worst case scenario flying would be also about £150. Am going to go for the train Less faff and I can spend the 6 hour journey prepping for my interview :cool:

Am feeling very excited! Am sure the nerves will come, but right now it's pure excitement!

Tomorrow evening I am going to do some research on the roles again and prep myself for the competency based interviews. I prepped quite a lot for the telephone/ video interviews so it's just a case of building on that and trying to be confident (easier said than done )

DIA thank you Am going to show OH your post and hope he sees things from a different perspective. I believe it will be great for us :j

Today's plans are:
1, Couch to 5k
2. 10,000 steps
2. Finish last bits of cleaning/ organising
- Kitchen ware has been washed so am going to wrap in newspaper and put back into boxes
- Go through the shoe shelf (a legit shelf by the door full of about 7 different people's shoes!)
- Investigate if there is anything at the top of the wardrobe (am too short so will need to get the ladder)
- Go with OH to pick out glasses (his parents are getting him some new ones for Christmas).
- Get my eyes tested
- Bring sofa out the shed and into the spare room to air it out :cool:

Well, currently on the train to England. Received an email about half 4 cancelling my interview :eek::( Apparently the role is no longer hiring... They haven't hired anyone else, just decided that they don't need any more staff. Absolutely fab. Wish they had maybe thought of that before advertising the role/ scheduling the interview. A gentleman from the recruitment team called me to discuss it and said "I'm sure it's disappointing but this kind of thing happens".

Maybe it does happen, but it feels like absolute pants. £150 down the drain... Will be great to see my Dad, but now I'm no further on in securing work for when OH and I move.

Other potential job emailed me asking if I would consider a different town, rather than the one I applied for. They said if I would then the hiring manager would like to interview me. Which is great, but that's not the role I applied for. The money would be the same but I would need to add in an hours commute each way and the subsequent costs which I really would rather not do.

Just feeling a little low right now. On my todd on the train... Feeling like a fraud because I am the only non-business man in the carriage. I really was feeling very positive about everything but right now am kind of sinking into negative thoughts.

Must try and remember that this is NOT my fault.

Hope everyone else is having a more successful Thursday.