A wake-up call February 28, 2007
Posted by gmbmfb in : debt, emergency fund, investing, job , trackbackI just found out that a good friend of mine got fired yesterday from basically her dream job. I don’t really know the details, but we both graduated from the same program together last year, and she’s an amazing graphic designer (a million times better than me).
Anyway, it got me to thinking: if I lost my job right now, today, I’d be fvcked. Royally. I have less than $400 in my emergency fund, and debts still looming over my head. I need to pick it up, because I know I’ve been slacking at work the past month or so. It’s not that I’m being lazy about it, it’s just that I think I’m still in a little over my head, know what I mean? I’ve found it really overwhelming to be SO busy all the time, with 5 or 6 coordinators pulling at me, all wanting different things, managing a huge budget … I got hired because of my graphic design skill, and nothing else (even though my design skills are mediocre at best) … and to try and learn all these new skills on the job, well, it’s been an eye-opening experience to say the least! But I’m so grateful to have gotten this opportunity, and I’m going to take the most out of these next 8 months.
Also, this morning I checked my mutual funds online, and because of the lovely Chinese stock market, my porfolio fell over 2%! I checked the TSX this morning when I got to work, and to my horror, it was already down 300 points! But I just checked it now, and it’s still down, but only by 45 points. What sucks is I have both my registered RSP and non-registered MF accounts in the same fund. They’re still higher than they were at the beginning of 2007, but it’s still a huge jolt to have them drop so much in one day.
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