Sorry for format ahead of time, as I am on mobile. I'm not a huge participater on this sub normally but about a year and a half ago, I came here to look for advice on how to save my first $1,000. What I found was a very helpful spreadsheet, which I can't remember who it was that posted, that helped more than I could imagine. I was making $9/hour at a job I hated and was hoping I could save enough to get me the confidence to quit, but first, I needed to hit at least $1,000. In no time I hit it. Then I hit $2,000. Then by this time, I had a friend of mine ask if i wanted a new job with him that paid better, of course I went and applied! I got the job, put in my two weeks, and got bumped to $12/hour at my new job. Fast forward 2 months, I have $4,000 saved. About this time, I get a phone call for a job I thought fell through 2 years ago. They want to hire me and pay was $50,000 a year plus commission. The downside was that I would have to move to a new state with no relocation fee from said job. They put me in a hotel for 5 days and I had to have a place immediately after that. I found one. More than I wanted to spend, and now currently paying two seperate rents as I couldn't get out of my old lease, but I was making more. Over all it cost me $3500 to move here. My savings was almost gone but I knew I'd make more. That takes us to this May. I'm no longer using the same spreadsheet but my own way of it but same concept. I now save more than ever. As of last week I broke the $10,000 mark and it only took me from May-September 4th. In this time I have also gotten $4,000 worth of dental work done. I now only have the one rent now as my old lease is over. I also just got another raise, so I am hoping by this time next year I'll have even more than double what I have now.
Submitted September 17, 2017 at 12:04PM by Sure___JustProveIt http://ift.tt/2fd9zgP
