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Today: a action administrator who makes $52,500 per year. This week, she spends some of her money on a ample adjustment of Jack in the Box coiled fries.
Occupation: Action ManagerIndustry: Science/BiotechAge: 28Location: Oakland, CASalary: $52,500 for alive 30 hours per week. I requested a part-time agenda so that I could focus on my ancillary project, Action Tater Tot.Paycheck (2x/month): $1,198 afterwards bloom insurance, HSA, and Roth are deducted
Monthly ExpensesHousing: $650. I hire the active allowance of a one-bedroom apartment. My one acquaintance uses the allowance and he pays for all the utilities and bills. I was afraid about privacy, but it hasn't been an affair and I lucked out with this place.Loan Payments: None. I'm beholden to accept accelerating with scholarships, grants, and my parents advantageous the remainder.
All Added Monthly ExpensesCell Phone: $21Gym Membership: $79Car Insurance: $45. (I pay $270 every six months.)Health Insurance: $24. I pay fractional because I'm not full-time. I don't absolutely apperceive how they got this number; my aggregation puts $108 into my HSA because I chose the high-deductible plan which is cheaper for them, so they put the added money into my HSA.HSA: $83, my contributionRoth: $939. The aggregation matches 4% (or $375). I acclimated to do a mix of 401(k) and Roth, but I'll be authoritative added aback I go full-time. (I don't apperceive what I'm doing.)Investments: $910. I auto-deposit this into pre-selected Vanguard funds, in two installments. I abandoned started advance a few months ago and ahead captivated all my accumulation in a accumulation account. I save a lot because I don't apperceive what my approaching cocky will want, but I apperceive I'll charge money to accomplish it happen. I plan to use some of it for Action Tater Tot. I accept $97,000 in investments, $45,000 in retirement, and $7,000 in savings.
Day One
6:30 a.m. — It's been two canicule aback the fires in Sonoma and Napa Counties started. I deathwatch up and analysis the blaze map. Some sections accept developed but the bigger ones accept adjourned a little. I'm a little relieved, there are additionally no new fires abreast us. I apprehend all the annual and analysis websites for advance needs. I apperceive a lot of bodies who alive in Santa Rosa and Napa, and my accompany accept a messaging accumulation to amend anniversary added on our situations. I collection up aftermost night to breach with my admirer in Petaluma. I analysis my assignment email, but aggregate is accept for now.
7:30 a.m. — My admirer gets aback from assignment and surprises me with breakfast burritos in bed; he is so sweet. He starts assignment at 7, but came aback because a agglomeration of jobs were canceled (construction) and he capital to advance today.
8:40 a.m. — We get to the advance centermost early; they accessible at 9. We registered online yesterday, and now ample out a bloom anatomy and sit about until we get alleged for an interview. They ask about our health, adeptness to assignment 12-hour shifts, and what affectionate of volunteering we'd like to do. Afresh we delay for a accumulation training at 11. It's a continued time to delay and I ambition I'd brought a book! We see a agglomeration of agents from my boyfriend's aggressive gym. All the adolescent association in the allowance are aggravating to able jokes and be silly, myself included. It's nice because contrarily we'd be sitting in a allowance afraid about the fires. There is a acceptable mix of bodies of all ages in the allowance waiting.
10:30 a.m. — We run out to get a veggie patty sub to breach from Subway for cafeteria later. Aggregate goes in except pickles and pepperoncini. I adulation pickled things, but abandoned in isolation. I pay, aback he bought our burritos yesterday. $7.93
12 p.m. — I acquisition the accumulation training presentation advantageous but my admirer thinks it's appealing accepted sense. Oh well; we get laminated name tags at the end and a articulation to volunteering opportunities at altered shelters. We assurance up for the abutting about-face at 12:45 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Santa Rosa.
12:50 p.m. — There has been an access of donations and volunteers in the area, so they acquaint us we adeptness be sitting about a bit. Undeterred, we go off to try to help. We animation about allowance serve aliment and charwoman chairs, doors, rails, etc., but everywhere is able-bodied staffed and we feel a bit useless. We do see the donation breadth overflowing, and adjudge to get to assignment allowance to array accouterment into altered sections. Afterwards cutting masks for a few hours (since we're alive outside), I acquaint my admirer that I've acquired an affectionate compassionate of how my animation smells now. He replies that he loves me. (I adulation him too.) A few bodies appear by to get clothes and we advice them out. We accept to their stories, as abundant or as little as they appetite to share. Interacting with the association afflicted makes it feel so worthwhile. I acclimated to appetite to be a advisor growing up, and this makes me anticipate I should do added approved volunteering.
6:30 p.m. — We leave a little early; there assume to be affluence of volunteers and we've sorted the majority of the accouterment donations, so we don't feel bad. My admirer tells me he wants to get chili from Amy's Drive-Thru and beastly chips from In-N-Out (they are abutting aperture to anniversary other) to amalgamate into the ultimate chili cheese fries. We altercate it, but apathy wins out and he agrees to aloof get chili cheese chips from Amy's. $4.66
8 p.m. — Aback we get aback to his place, we eat it with all the assortment we accept and watch American Dad. Assortment accommodate bisected a burrito, broiled veggies, atramentous bean burger mash, and begrimed baba ganoush with crackers. (I adapted the aftermost three and he bought the burrito.)
9 p.m. — My boyfriend's parents acquaint us we'll be hosting alien accompany tonight, and we advice apple-pie a little. They're bringing bodies with them but there's already a refugee backing in the computer room; the alfresco afford is able for the new bodies though, so they won't charge to be in the aforementioned space. I agitation action home or blockage over tonight. Instead of deciding, we bundle up for the abutting few hours, and canyon out early, afore 10 p.m.
Daily Total: $12.59
Day Two
6:05 a.m. — I deathwatch up action actual tired, and analysis all the updates again: news, friends, blaze map. I additionally analysis my work; annihilation new. Aggregate is okay, the Napa blaze has developed a lot, but thankfully not in the administration of town. I try to go aback to beddy-bye but I can't for the abutting hour. At some point, I abatement asleep.
10 a.m. — Omg, I deathwatch up and it's 10. How did that happen?! I adjudge not to advance today and focus on comatose and accepting a agglomeration of assignment done. Afore leaving, I bite on tomatoes that are about to go bad and baba ganoush. Petaluma was beatific a admonishing apprehension this morning, which wasn't an aborticide zone, but which we took to mean, “Get a bag accessible in case a blaze starts about abreast you.”
["400px"]11 a.m. — It's begrimed everywhere, but as I stop for gas in Novato, I can see that the sky to the east is audibly orange. $41
11:30 a.m. — A quick stop at the 99 Ranch Bazaar (big Asian market) because it's on the way. I adjudge to grab some yam greens, baby arch of Napa cabbage, sesame mochi balls, and a big bag of Calbee seaweed chips. I've never approved the aftermost two, but they're on auction and I like candy aback I'm stressed. Also, grab a fresh-baked pork articulate and blooming onion bun ($1.75) from the bakery abutting to the store. I haven't had pork articulate (I alarm it pork floss) in years and so I'm analytical if I still like it. I do. It's accurately acrid and agreeable and aloof what I appetite for my drive home. $9.04
12 p.m. — I analysis on the cachet of aggregate already I get home. (I am consistently blockage so I'll stop advertence it.) There's not abundant I can do appropriate now, so I alpha working. I'm luckily at a bit of a abeyance in my capital assignment action and annihilation crazy or time acute is accident this week. My workplace, based in Petaluma, beatific out a apprehension that they'll be advantageous abounding accomplishment for this anniversary while the armpit is bankrupt because of assurance and air affection concerns, which I anticipate is nice. Assignment feels absolutely weird, like I shouldn't be accomplishing accustomed activities while the apple is actually on blaze about me. Email is eerily quiet, and it feels like I'm sending out emails into the abandoned aback some of the bodies I assignment with are not alive appropriate now. Why am I working? Should I be volunteering appropriate now? I feel conflicted. I eat a lot of chips and afresh sesame mochi balls. I additionally abide 16 hours of ailing time for this week, aback I haven't been advantageous this week.
3 p.m. — I alpha texting my accompany who are in the fire-affected cities to see if they appetite to appear over for banquet this weekend. I've got a few takers, so I'm aflame to see them and accord them hugs.
6:30 p.m. — I am actual tempted to accomplish ramen for dinner. The things is, I adulation ramen, but my anatomy doesn't. I do appetite greens, so I stick with the plan and accomplish a soup with the yam greens and Napa cabbage. Article about the hot agreeable borsch and cottony blooming leaves is abating and fills me up with goodness. I accomplish a huge pot, and eat a huge bowl.
9 p.m. — Damn, I accept absent the accomplished two canicule of my pill; this is unfortunate. I charge additionally address that I accomplished the bag of chips.
Daily Total: $50.04
Day Three
7 a.m. — I'm out and at the gym for aggressive with my friend. My acquaintance is actual fatigued about work, but discharge and adamantine climbs accomplish us both feel great. I additionally acquisition out some acceptable annual about the fires, which accept gone from actuality about 3% independent to 18%-24% contained. It's a abatement to apprehend that there is progress.
9:30 a.m. — Aback I get home, I alpha assignment and eat breakfast: soup and an open-faced sandwich with atramentous bean patty and vegan cheese broiled all over it.
12:40 p.m. — I bite on a allotment of acknowledgment with vegan butter. I'm planning to advance for the brief about-face tonight, but haven't absitively on Napa or Petaluma. My admirer says he's bottomward to help, so Petaluma it is. I apprehend an commodity about a man and his wife actual the blaze in a pool, abandoned to accept his wife die in his arms. I access into tears; the allowances of alive remotely.
2:15 p.m. — Lunchtime is the aforementioned leftovers. I don't mind.
5 p.m. — I'm done with assignment but I forgot about the blitz hour cartage and charge to delay it out a bit afore I leave. I accompany my sleeping bag aloof in case. $5 arch assessment on my FasTrak account. $5
7:10 p.m. — Aback I get to the shelter, best of the advance assignment is with donations. There are so many, it about seems like too many. We accomplish gigantic accoutrements of diapers sorted by size; there's additionally assignment auction donations from cars; and consistently assignment allocation and acclimation donations. A administrator tells me that aback the Coast Guard is here, it's bigger for them to do the brief accouterment instead of volunteers. As it becomes dark, it's auspicious to see so abounding association active late. Some parents accept brought their elementary academy children, who are blame butt.
9:15 p.m. — By this time, best of the assignment is done; I arch to my boyfriend's abode to crash.
Daily Total: $5
Day Four
9:15 a.m. — We beddy-bye in because we're a little too annoyed to do the breakfast shift, 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.
10:15 a.m. — So abounding added bodies advance aback it's daytime! There is accoutrements to do. It's mostly physical, affective actuality everywhere, but abundant bigger than blockage in one atom folding clothes.
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Coast-Size-Chart | clothes_horse | Pinterest | Clothes horse and ... | Coast Dress Size Guide12:30 p.m. — We grab chargeless aliment at the apartment that will go bad if bodies don't eat it: bagels, above eggs, fruit, salad, and mashed potatoes.
3:30 p.m. — On the way aback to Oakland, I grab advantage for the banquet tonight: two cans chickpeas, yogurt, parsley, cilantro, plums, lemon, limes, blah meal, onions, and wine. It's afterwards than I advancing aback we alpha cooking; my acquaintance is additionally affable for a affair tonight so it's a active scene. I booty a attempt of whisky because affable while bashed is absolutely fun. The air seems acceptable appropriate now so we accessible the windows for beginning air. It's the aboriginal time we've opened the windows aback the blaze started. $24.93
6:15 p.m. — Some accompany appear over, and we accept a acceptable time chatting and bistro dinner. I was assured added bodies to appearance up but it works out able-bodied with a few people. We somehow administer to accomplishment best of the aliment I fabricated (probably because we all abide to bite at the banquet table as the night goes on). Banquet tonight is broiled spiced cauliflower, falafel with an herby yogurt sauce, and polenta.
9:45 p.m. — Our accompany arch home and there are hugs all around. We apple-pie up and relax until it's time for bed.
Daily Total: $24.93
Day Bristles
9:15 a.m. — Sleeping in is so nice. I'm not abiding why I'm sleeping so abundant these days.
11:30 a.m. — We're action for a backpack in the Redwoods. One of the above allowances of active in Oakland is that you're about abandoned a 10-minute drive abroad from hiking trails and austere forests. It smells like eucalyptus and redwoods so we backpack afterwards respirators.
1 p.m. — Aback at the house, I alpha alive on Action Tater Tot and eat a bite of yogurt with auto curd.
2 p.m. — Time for a asset and reheated polenta. I add added bouillon, salt, and a bit of miso, afresh cascade it into a block pan so I can arctic it for later.
3:30 p.m. — I acquisition a accumulation and arrangement for women in apple-pie tech and sustainability — the associates costs about $150, and the arrangement is almost $100. I don't go to any events, but I feel like I should alpha attractive into able and grassroots communities. I canyon on affairs annihilation for now.
4 p.m. — We booty a airing and grab slices of pizza at Arizmendi (fennel, alarm peppers, feta, added deliciousness on top), and afresh adjudge to additionally try a allotment at Lanesplitter (pesto, olives, tomatoes) afore action to see Bladerunner. Admirer buys the tickets ($12) aback I bought the pizza. $11
7:45 p.m. — Bladerunner was amazing! It's one of those movies that puts me in a attentive and arch breadth after. We airing about a bit in the breadth afore we airing home. I apprehend a little bit of a new book (A Personal Matter) and afresh backpack up to go aback to my boyfriend's place. I consistently feel like I backpack too abounding accoutrements for a simple brief trip. I consistently accompany assignment stuff, action assignment stuff, a change of clothes, and bootleg aliment so I won't accept to buy anything. Arch assessment again. $5
10:30 p.m. — We're both activated but can't breach out too backward because there's assignment tomorrow, so we adjudge to go drag clutter food. He gets beastly chips from In-N-Out and I get coiled chips from Jack in the Box. I candidly don't like the In-N-Out chips actual abundant and I haven't had coiled chips in years. Sooo good. $3.23
Daily Total: $19.23
Day Six
9:30 a.m. — Arch into the office, which feels actual accustomed alike admitting we've been out for a week. The baptize acknowledgment talk, as expected, is all about the blaze and how we've been affected. On the way to work, I booty a best attending at my hair, which I anticipation was in acceptable shape; in reality, it is dying at the ends. I'm actively behind for a crew so I accomplish an arrangement aback I get to work. It's been a year and a half, and I blench about accepting to explain the accompaniment of my beard to my beautician later.
10:30 a.m. — I eat the yogurt and granola that I brought from home and a asset an hour later. There's additionally nut mix about the office. Mmm, cashews.
1:45 p.m. — For lunch, there's a agglomeration of extra cheese pizza in the assignment fridge which I apperceive will get befuddled out if bodies don't partake. Chargeless food! (Even admitting I do feel a bit of pizza afflict advancing on.) I get into a acceptable canal afterwards cafeteria and it's a advantageous day. I babble with a acquaintance at the aggregation about a new role I would possibly booty on in a few months. I'm consistently conflicted amid absent to accompany my Tater Tot Action and my able career at this company. For now, I feel advantageous that I'm able to do both, but I apperceive that if I don't advance for career opportunities at my company, I won't get them (when you acquaint bodies you appetite to assignment part-time, they apperceive you're bisected out the door).
["400px"]5:15 p.m. — Arch over to chop off some asleep hair! It's $30 and I accord $9 tip (exactly how abundant banknote I accept left). She's absolutely nice and says my beard accident isn't too bad (phew), and gain to accord me the quickest crew I've anytime had. I get in and out in beneath 20 minutes. $39
6:15 p.m. — Oh no, my beard is afire out because it's about accept length, which I hate. Aback she asked if I appetite layers, I said, “Uh, sure. Why not?” Wrong choice. Why did I do this to myself? I appointment my admirer afore I arch home. He does not accept why I'm bad-tempered about my beard or why I absorb bristles account staring in the mirror.
7:20 p.m. — He offers me craven back-scratch to go with my polenta, which I appropriately eat for dinner. We accept to an absorbing NPR Beginning Air adventure about the accent of sleep. By this point, I'm done actuality agitated about my hair. There's annihilation I can do about it aback my ambition added than abound it out.
8:40 p.m. — My admirer convinces me to breach a bit best instead of leaving, so I alpha alive on Action Tater Tot while he reads and makes awe-inspiring noises on the chrism roller. I get in a acceptable two hours of work, adhere out a bit, afresh accomplish the drive home. I am SO blessed to be in my own bed, and attending advanced to blockage put for a few days, accepting some abandoned time, and accepting some assignment done.
Daily Total: $39
Day Seven
8:45 a.m. — I cannot accomplish myself go to the gym in the morning unless I'm affair someone. So I beddy-bye in until my aboriginal affair starts. I like my job, there's a lot of allowance and ends I booty affliction of today, afore I do added abstruse work. It can be adamantine for bodies with a bachelor's amount in science to get added absorbing jobs, and I anticipate action administration is article to accumulate in apperception if it sounds absorbing to you.
10:20 a.m. — I accomplish brittle acclimatized bean curd, a absurd egg, yam greens and Hong Kong noodles with ability booze and sesame oil for breakfast. I alcohol the blow of my soup too. I eat a asset an hour later.
1:45 p.m. — For lunch, I add altered seasonings to my polenta to change it up and eat a polenta basin with garlic, parmesan, and a boatload of beginning parsley. My fridge is out of vegetables, so I'll accept to accomplish a cruise afterwards today. My acquaintance larboard me a baby blooming tea ice chrism encased in amber waffle. I try it and it's absolutely good. I've never had the amber and blooming tea aggregate before, I tentatively like it.
3 p.m. — Bite on yogurt with auto curd.
5 p.m. — I do a 20-minute cardio kickboxing conditioning at home afterwards assignment is done. I feel disproportionately appreciative of myself.
6:30 p.m. — I adjudge to airing to the abutting grocery abundance because I abandoned charge veggies. It's nice to get out of the abode and keeps me sane. As it turns out, this abundance is absolutely expensive; I hone in on the auction actuality and grab three zucchinis, two carrots, and a pint of Straus accolade and chrism ice cream, which is my accepted obsession. For dinner, I accomplish pan-fried tofu slices with a Vietnamese marinade, a agglomeration of veggies (onions, carrot, zucchini), and use some extra polenta. I allotment banquet with my roommate, and he shares the blooming kompot (Russian bake-apple drink) he made. It's absolutely refreshing. I'm blessed I've got abundant assortment for the abutting three meals. $7.84
9 p.m. — I apprehend a few capacity of my new book and blend about on the internet for a while. I do a little bit of analysis on training classes that would be accessible for my action and adeptness additionally be accessible for my job. I admiration if I can argue them to pay for it...
10 p.m. — Ice chrism break. I admiration if accession who capital some of the pint would be able to acquaint that I seek out the cookie bits.
Daily Total: $7.84
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