{"id":1397,"date":"2016-09-28T00:16:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T14:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2016-09-30T09:31:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T23:31:39","slug":"struggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/?p=1397","title":{"rendered":"Struggling…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must say I\u2019ve been struggling the last few weeks. It seems the constant Black to Red to Red to Black to Red to Red to Red to Black etc of the finances since losing the last lot of part time work has been wearing me down. I\u2019ve noticed quite a few things slipping, and the last one has been the sleeping cycle. I can feel my depressive levels increasing and this has been borne out by the monitoring I\u2019ve been doing over the last 18 months.<\/p>\n

I need to pull several things in together and prevent another dive into where I was around June 2015. It\u2019s not the lack of money that\u2019s hurting, it\u2019s the increasing pressure of the services that I can\u2019t really change anymore. I\u2019ve actually managed to decrease my electricity and gas costs over the last six months compared to last year which is pretty amazing considering it\u2019s been colder (I think) for the most part of this winter compared to last. My food budget is well under what most households would be even accounting for my lack of partner & children. Don\u2019t think you can do much better than $60 \/ week for groceries. Vegetarianism may help a bit, but I\u2019ve already been keeping a fine line on the grocery budget over the last year.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t deluding myself thinking I was going to be self sufficient with Shards of Arcadia<\/a> by now, I\u2019d been counting on part-time work to keep me afloat while still building the business. However without that being enough to meet the outgoings over the last twelve months, it\u2019s been a slow slide. I really can\u2019t last another six months of this \u201cincome\u201d. Anybody who thinks that living on $530 a fortnight is a holiday is clearly out of touch with the reality of the cost of living in Australian Society. I know I’m not the only one, I’ve watched several friends lose their roles too, and there’s no guarantees of work for any of us anymore.<\/p>\n

Anyway I\u2019m not wanting to be morbid, just needing to express this and move on. I\u2019ve made a personal commitment to myself to really put in some yards by way of holding my days together. So now I have a monthly commitment to a post every day on this site until at least the end of October.<\/p>\n

I feel somehow that I\u2019ve sold my soul and not in a good way by signing up to a number of \u201cpaid survey\u201d sites to try and scrape up some cash. I have to say I\u2019ve been pumping away at them and feel suitably \u201cdirty\u201d. Oh well, a new personal low.<\/p>\n

On a positive note the Furbags will have food until at least the end of the year! I still have friends, I’m warm and have a roof over my head. It’s a good thing I’m a man of simple needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must say I\u2019ve been struggling the last few weeks. It seems the constant Black to Red to Red to Black to Red to Red to Red to Black etc of the finances since losing the last lot of part time work has been wearing me down. I\u2019ve noticed quite a few things slipping, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,27,23,22,8,26,13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-depression","category-furbag","category-health","category-philosophy","category-photography","category-relationships","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}