Farewell Unemployment and Poverty!

I have been welcomed back into the world of employment at long last. I started at Howard's Storage World on Tuesday and I'm really enjoying it. The bosses (a married couple with three adult children who all work in the store) are super nice and helpful, giving me lifts to staff meetings and company conferences. The job is interesting, which probably seems surprising since it's a storage shop but I love homewares. The customers are so refreshingly non-bogan I could squeal with delight. As are the staff, who are really friendly and helpful. I'm also not the only newbie, and the other is a 50 year old woman who's never worked in retail before and therefore makes me look like the fastest learner on the planet. She's very nice too.

The awesome part of this job is that it's given me enough funds to get my own internet connection. I just applied for the new TPG 500GB ADSL2+ with home phone line rental. $60 a month for that is just an incredible deal, and I need a home phone line because naked ADSL deals are just nowhere near as good. I think it was $50 a month for 30GB, or maybe 60GB. So crap in comparison. Works out to $15 a week, which is less than an hour's work. Pretty sure I can handle that. It means that between my rent, internet and mobile bills I'll have $603 to pay a month. If my hours continue the way they are, I'll be getting paid $1260 a month, plus whatever I get from Centrelink after I report that income. I might just cover it, haha. Plus groceries of course, but with my amazing budget shopping skills, developed and honed during my three months of unemployed brokeness, I can shop for the fortnight for $80. I'm kinda nervous about how the initial setup fee is going to hit me, because it's going to cost $160 all up including the first month and the $20 home phone deposit, but hopefully that won't come out for at least 10 days. That's what they said anyway - 10 to 20 days to process the application. Then I'll be free of my parents' terrible Optus connection and download limit and be completely independent from them again, despite living in their backyard. Yay! I just need to try to resist the temptation to spend all my money next week. Should be ok, I'm pretty used to not spending money now haha.

I don't think I have anything else to really say tonight. I really want to go to bed and watch Heroes, so I think I'll leave it there. Later folks.