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Aug. 6th, 2015 09:04 amWe signed an architect. Have survived the first month at new job; commute is pretty reliably around a half hour, 40 minutes if I just walk. (I usually have to walk around a mile to find a bikeshare bike, and then the drop-off is a few blocks away from the office.)
I'm slowly starting to sleep through the night. Slowly starting to not twitch with adrenaline each time I hear the pager noise on someone elses phone.
Despite my raise, I'm taking home less each month because I've begun contributing 15% to retirement. (4.4% is the mandatory contribution to the pension fund; I'd have to stay with the gov't for at least 5 years for it to do any good. its pretty much a loss for retirement but the disability benefits are reasonable. but the rest is going into 401k-type things with matching.) I didn't have a 401k with groupon because they didn't do any matching, and I was trying to save up cash for the garage of doom.
Life is... pretty good. I'm a lot less stressed. I'm getting some sun. Switching gears, learning stuff.
I'm slowly starting to sleep through the night. Slowly starting to not twitch with adrenaline each time I hear the pager noise on someone elses phone.
Despite my raise, I'm taking home less each month because I've begun contributing 15% to retirement. (4.4% is the mandatory contribution to the pension fund; I'd have to stay with the gov't for at least 5 years for it to do any good. its pretty much a loss for retirement but the disability benefits are reasonable. but the rest is going into 401k-type things with matching.) I didn't have a 401k with groupon because they didn't do any matching, and I was trying to save up cash for the garage of doom.
Life is... pretty good. I'm a lot less stressed. I'm getting some sun. Switching gears, learning stuff.
