Life As Nick Starr

Well it’s been one week since I got my walking papers at my last job. I’ve still been blogging over at Boy Genius Report, but this week has found me distracted quite a bit. I’ve gone to a few employment services, and been all over Monster.com. I decided to sell a few things, my Nintendo Wii (sold for $405), and Microsoft Zune (sold for $159). That’s a pretty okay week in terms of money, but I don’t have enough items to sell and live off of forever.

I’ve become to appreciate my MacBook Pro more this week, as I’ve spent a large portion of my time on it this week. I don’t see myself selling it for the extra money to downgrade to the MacBook. I also didn’t want to sell my Bose Quiet Comfort 3 headphones unless necessary, because they really help in filtering out all of the noise inside of coffee shops that I’ve been spending most of my time on (using their WiFi).

Well, after a week I do have good news. I start a 6 week contract position in Clearwater at almost my same pay from my last job. That should give me plenty of time to save up, have a yard sale of all of my items in storage, and sell my TV on Craigslist. Once I finish the position I have the intention of moving to California. If a job in California comes up in the meantime that is too good to pass up, I can give a 2 day notice (their words not mine) and all will be okay in terms of the agency I got the position though here in Florida.

So that’s been my week. I’ve been pretty blessed to not ever go that long without a job, and I am grateful that I was able to pick up this position so quickly. I start on Wednesday, so this weekend is a bit of a vacation for me. Thanks to everyone’s encouragement in the past week. When I do finalize my plans to move to California, I will be sure to chronicle my trip in detail.

Until later….