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This is where the rubber meets the road

Posted by Lynnae on June 26, 2007

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Shannon got his first paycheck at his new job today. It isn’t even enough to cover the rent, much less any other expenses. Before everyone panics and thinks we’re sinking, we do have reserves, and we did expect this check to be low, even though it’s nearly a full pay-period’s worth of work. Shannon works in sales, so he gets a base plus commission. While he is training, he just gets the base. Unfortunately the base salary is only about 2/5 of what he was making at his old job.

I talked to him today (he’s in Utah for job training), and he thinks he can up his income fairly quickly. I believe him. He’s pretty good at media sales. We do need to survive until that happens, and I don’t want to go through all of our reserves.

So, cutting expenses is what we will be doing. Time to triple my efforts.

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