I walked off the job because I couldn't stand the way I was being treated.
The whole experience really makes me want to tighten my belt financially, because I know this isn't the last time I'll come across people like this.
I remember years ago, when I was working at Chase and Office Depot, I had managers at both jobs that I really couldn't stand, but I had to put up with it because I really didn't have any other options.
I wonder what I would have done differently back then if I could have.
These this idea that you need to stick up for yourself, and not let people walk all over you, if you let people walk all over you, or treat you like garbage, then, you're not showing any sense of self-worth.
When I quit the job at the gas station, my thinking was that I'm going to stick up for myself, and this place can go ahead and deal with high turn over.
How do you deal with people you don't like, or people you can't really stand? My typical approach has been to limit contact people I can't really stand, but in many cases they just sort of force or instigate interactions.
I almost don't even want to buy gas any more.
There are a few electric vehicles that I really like, but I have no idea where I would charge them up. Plus it's going to be a while before I replace my existing car. I'm 30,000 miles in, I don't drive much anymore, and I don't plan on increasing my amount of driving in the future. I want to replace my car at 100,000 miles, but that's basically 6 years away.
Then there is the IRA and HSA issue that I'm dealing with. I'm 6,439 away from completing my contributions for 2021, I have until mid April to cap these off, and quitting the job at the gas station doesn't make hitting this goal any easier.
I was looking at my W-2 and the kind of massive amount of money that is withheld from my wages. Around 8000 between federal income taxes, and social security / medi-care.
The money that I contribute to my HSA and IRA only saves me about 1200 in taxes. Based on the refund calculator, I would owe 700 dollars, assuming no IRA and HSA contributions, but with them maxed, I should get back around 400 bucks.
Knowing how much money I have to put together before April, I really didn't want to go out and eat today, but I eventually gave in and went to the buffet.
I have cross- training at the warehouse, and I'm hoping that this would get me more overtime opportunities, but who knows.
So what do I do about the IRA / HSA garbage? Well, I'm going to estimate that a realistic amout that I can put away between now and mid-April at 2,000, that would leave 4,500 that I would have to come up with from some other source, and 2,000 isn't totally realistic because it would mean coming up with as much overtime as I had during December.
What the hell do I do for extra money? I almost get the feeling that people resent the idea of someone working two jobs if they don't need to, like, people think you're being greedy or something.
I'm going to take it that working two jobs just isn't a path or option that's really going to work.
Day trading and swing trading hasn't exactly worked. I might consider, buying a book and trying a few strategies, but, I have to think about it.
And the food delivey stuff just doesn't really work all that well.
What else?
I'm going to hope that cross-training at work opens more overtime opportunities, and kind of stick with that.
I wonder what would have happened if things went differently in Missouri.
But, maybe, if everything happens for a reason, then, maybe I had to leave Missouri. I honestly never would have moved out of my parent's house if there wasn't some kind of catalyst for doing so.
So I'm not going to try and look for a second job, I'm not going to try trading, and food delivery is out too, so what do I do?
I don't understand how to sell stuff online. I only sold a few things on Facebook, and, they only sold because they were super under-priced.
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