First off, let me just say that I have a decently good salary at my career job. It is enough to cover my bills and pay down my debt in a reasonable amount of time plus there are bonuses from time to time that I can shovel towards the debt. However, I am still struggling with some of my worst spending habits like dining out because I am too busy rushing to my well-paying job to make food or using retail therapy to ease the stress from my well-paying job. I am making OK progress at kicking those habits but I decided I need to bring in some extra dollars to make up for the extra spending I haven't been able to completely kick yet.
Thankfully, I can sew and from time to time I list my sewing services on Craigslist when I'm strapped for cash. So I posted my ad and quickly lined up several large jobs which seemed manageable when I took them on but.... I also bring in a little extra money from my Etsy shop but it's never been very significant.... until recently which has sent me scrambling to make orders to ship! Add to that my actual real job has been demanding way over 40 hours for the last couple weeks with no end in sight and you've got one incredibly stressed out girl!
And unfortunately this girl runs right back to old bad habits when stressed out and strapped for time. So in my quest to earn a couple extra bucks to cover my habitual bad spending decisions I've actually set myself up for complete and utter failure and increased my bad spending over the past two weeks. sigh. I will eventually get this right, it's just frustrating to keep getting in my own way.
Side work can be very hard to manage. One minute you don't have any work and the next you're swamped! The more you do side jobs, the better you get at structuring time or even learning to say no to additional ventures...as exciting as they may be.
ReplyDeleteBoy you've got that right! I bit off a little more than I can chew for September as well (guess I didn't learn my lesson well enough the first time!) Thankfully, I was very upfront with my sewing clients and told them I had a long backlog so they wouldn't expect instant turn around and that has made all the difference in how I've been handling the stress of having so much to get done.
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