So it’s been awhile since last posted so I’ve got plenty to update you on.

For the duration of my job search I was working a few side jobs here and there. Although I didn’t have a full time job, I was able to keep myself fairly busy. I never really had a set schedule and could never predict how my weeks would turn out. I had become used to this way of life. It was flexible, sporadic, and it kept me on my toes. I could work a handful of jobs without fully committing to any one of them. A little money here, a little money there, every week felt like a hustle and I enjoyed the rush. But some weeks were dead. These weeks I wouldn’t work at all and when you don’t work, you don’t earn. These were the weeks that I regretted my unemployment. It was frustrating seeing the money that I had hustled for the week before slowly drain with every passing day.

Now, 4 weeks into my new job I have finally begun to settle down. I have regular hours and more importantly, a regular paycheck. I can plan things around my work schedule where as before, I never knew my work schedule, making it difficult to plan anything. And since the money coming is coming in consistently too, I can now execute a more effective plan to ‘KillSallie.’

In one of my earlier posts (read: Destroy and rebuild it) I wrote about a having to eliminate all of my consumer debt prior to tackling my student loans. This was always a top priority for me because my credit card debt had higher interest rates than all of my loans and once I paid that off I knew I could focus all my efforts on my student loans. Well my fellow debtors, I have succeeded. Both my BillMeLater and my credit card are officially paid off!

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*screenshot from my Mint.com dashboard

That’s about $1400 in credit card debt that I’ve been able to pay off since October when I first posted about it (read: My credit confession).

So although I’ve neglected the blog, I have NOT neglected the mission. #KillSallie

p.s. I will explain the $399 balance in another update coming soon….