Can’t you see i’m busy?

Tuesday 20th May, 2008 - £9,361.55 in debt…

Some people might say that quitting your part-time job when you’re over £9,000 in debt is a bad idea. But I’ve always flown in the face of convention.

Although I normally work as a freelancer from home, I got myself an emergency part-time temping job last year to improve my cashflow situation. It has done wonders so far: The freelancing is great, but it’s hard to budget and set up regular payments with that sort of job. An extra, reliable £200 a week came in surprisingly handy.

However, I somehow managed to land myself a job with a boss who makes George Bush seem like a perfectly competent leader. Since I started working for him, my thoughts have ranged from the murderous to the suicidal. Call me naive or incredibly lucky, but it’s the only job I’ve ever had where my whole Sunday has been spent dreading the start of the working week, but I stuck around because of my dire finances.

So, like the dutiful employee I am, I turned up for work at bang on 9.03am yesterday to find the boss in the foulest of foul moods. After a minor altercation over some work that was going to be a HUGE WASTE OF TIME, he asked me whether I was happy in the job.

The following discussion was short, loud and somewhat furious. I was out of there by 9.10am.

Normally, I would now be spending my days sleeping and eating Pringles in front of Diagnosis Murder, but unfortunately (and I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before), I need money. So it’s a week of trawling the employment agencies for me.

In other news:

All of my Ebay buyers have paid up and the money has gone straight onto my NatWest card. So that card is one hundred percent taken care of, and that feels pretty good. As I was previously paying it off at £10 per month, I can now add £10 to my regular Barclaycard payment.

Since I’ve got some free time on my hands now, I want to use it for money-making purposes. As well as digging around in the loft for anything Ebayable, does anyone have any suggestions?