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dragonlady7) wrote2018-12-28 10:49 am
dragonlady7) wrote2018-12-28 10:49 am
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So the Farm-Fam visited; arrived around 3 yesterday, Farmkid gave herself a scavenger hunt challenge through my house, which was very slightly nerve-wracking (what *would* she find under that bed? I honestly don't know, I hope it's not drugs or sex toys, but generally I live a tame life, but honestly I don't know what's in there? as it happens she found a missing pair of shoes, some dust bunnies, and one of the cleaning cloths from my steam mop which I had been looking for so it was nice to find!). For dinner we walked about half a mile to a restaurant specializing in locally-farmed hotdogs, I am not making that up, and met up with Dude's mother, who has heard so much about Farmkid I figured it was time.
Lovely to see them, as ever. And as ever, BIL tried to find things around my house to fix, and settled on the stove, which doesn't have a functioning lighter-- we use a stick lighter to light it. He thought he could replace the igniter, which would be like $100? but he did a bit more research and determined that it was likely another part also broken, which might not be replaceable.
I told him not to worry about it; when we redo the kitchen, maybe we can get a deal on a new stove. The oven igniter malfunctioned recently, and while it's been working fine ever since that incident, I'm starting to think it's maybe not a perfectly-good-except-tiny-detail oven after all. It's secondhand, and apparently quite old, and we have to redo and probably redesign the entire kitchen anyway. So. We can get rid of a probably-actually-quite-broken old oven and start over. I'll start saving my pennies.
And on that note, I just thought to Google whether there's another change in NY State's minimum wage, and yes, there is. It's going up to more than I earn.
I've been here since 2008. I've had to fight for every raise I got. And I'm making eleven bucks an hour.
Minimum as of New Year's Eve this year will be $11.10.
Disheartening, but, well, at least they'll have to give me a raise. Maybe they'll feel bad and give me like fifty cents instead of the legally-mandated ten? Who knows.
Everyone knows I only work here because they let me take off literally whenever, so I don't have much of a leg to stand on. Though, if I got my shit together and made another go at finding some kind of sporadic online work, like transcription or captioning or whatever else it is that people do nowadays, it would not take much hustle to replace come-in-whenever minimum-wage camera store with something that would let me work from the farm. (Every year toward the end of the summer when I haven't been collecting camera store paychecks as much, things get tight in our household. So we try to pay off most of our bills in winter, but things like the car payments and the cellphone and internet and electric bills and such come due as they come due, so.)
(It's not like "tight" is that bad, but we need to set aside a lot for things like renovating the house and such, and that has to come out of a separate place.) (And like. Retirement. Obviously a place that gives no raises beyond what the state literally demands is not contributing toward any kind of pension or retirement for me. And like. Software jobs kind of don't either. Pensions are a delightfully antiquated notion in this day and age; nobody I know is going to get one, and most of us are still paying off student loans well beyond the age at which it's best to start retirement accounts. I am extremely fortunate that waitressing paid off my loans at 25ish, because my degree absolutely has not ever tried to pay for itself.)
Lovely to see them, as ever. And as ever, BIL tried to find things around my house to fix, and settled on the stove, which doesn't have a functioning lighter-- we use a stick lighter to light it. He thought he could replace the igniter, which would be like $100? but he did a bit more research and determined that it was likely another part also broken, which might not be replaceable.
I told him not to worry about it; when we redo the kitchen, maybe we can get a deal on a new stove. The oven igniter malfunctioned recently, and while it's been working fine ever since that incident, I'm starting to think it's maybe not a perfectly-good-except-tiny-detail oven after all. It's secondhand, and apparently quite old, and we have to redo and probably redesign the entire kitchen anyway. So. We can get rid of a probably-actually-quite-broken old oven and start over. I'll start saving my pennies.
And on that note, I just thought to Google whether there's another change in NY State's minimum wage, and yes, there is. It's going up to more than I earn.
I've been here since 2008. I've had to fight for every raise I got. And I'm making eleven bucks an hour.
Minimum as of New Year's Eve this year will be $11.10.
Disheartening, but, well, at least they'll have to give me a raise. Maybe they'll feel bad and give me like fifty cents instead of the legally-mandated ten? Who knows.
Everyone knows I only work here because they let me take off literally whenever, so I don't have much of a leg to stand on. Though, if I got my shit together and made another go at finding some kind of sporadic online work, like transcription or captioning or whatever else it is that people do nowadays, it would not take much hustle to replace come-in-whenever minimum-wage camera store with something that would let me work from the farm. (Every year toward the end of the summer when I haven't been collecting camera store paychecks as much, things get tight in our household. So we try to pay off most of our bills in winter, but things like the car payments and the cellphone and internet and electric bills and such come due as they come due, so.)
(It's not like "tight" is that bad, but we need to set aside a lot for things like renovating the house and such, and that has to come out of a separate place.) (And like. Retirement. Obviously a place that gives no raises beyond what the state literally demands is not contributing toward any kind of pension or retirement for me. And like. Software jobs kind of don't either. Pensions are a delightfully antiquated notion in this day and age; nobody I know is going to get one, and most of us are still paying off student loans well beyond the age at which it's best to start retirement accounts. I am extremely fortunate that waitressing paid off my loans at 25ish, because my degree absolutely has not ever tried to pay for itself.)
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