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Pay Cut!

Wow, when you run your budget, and you are looking like the United States running a deficit every month you wonder ... WTF ... Here I am in a new sales job in a very "lucrative" industry ... the potential! I can see it now yachts, race cars and cruises! Wait a minute PAY CUT! WTF!!!! How is this possible, didn't I sign a contract? Didn't that contract have a dollar amount posted as an expectation? Let's see said dollar amount divided by 12 months and ... well, that was what I was planning on at least! Hmm am I using Enron accounting here or what, review contract, understand pay ... the conclusion is I have been had! Now I have spent money that I was planning on making but didn't actually make, that turns me into a little Enron! NOT GOOD, It will take me nearly three months to recover from this little accounting (contract) mishap.

On a more positive note at a wiser man than I once told me, employment is equal no side should be getting a good deal employment should always be neutral. Therefore, if my expectation of pay was blank and my expectation of work was blank, and now my expectation of pay is a lot less than blank then, of course, my expectation of work will as well be much less thank blank. Therefore (funny how in two completely unrelated posts I get back to time) My time will be spent bettering myself during said time that I would have been working.

I must stay positive, realize that I do have a "good" job, and a loving wife, pay is not everything, what I realized is that I have a lot to learn from my current position. Nuf Said

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