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I've been taking a couple of things into consideration:
-The starting salary for librarians is actually lower in NYC and Queens than it is here--so I'd better get working on living independently and figuring out how to live frugally as soon as possible.
(Admittedly, they're about equal once you subtract $4000 a year as the average cost of owning and operating a car. But 'adjusted for cost of living,' NYC/Queens pay a meager $13,000 yearly).
-If I'm going to have any chance of getting employed in the NYC system, I'd better give at least another year for my Spanish to improve.
-Whenever I feel like I'm not very competent yet, I feel like I can't leave my job just as I'm starting to get competent.
So, I've decided to stay in my job at least another year (assuming that I don't do anything to get myself fired...) and get my own place. I think I've picked out a general area between NCSU and Cary, which is a great deal closer to downtown and to my job than I am now, but not so pricey as the trendy Glenwood South area. I will need furniture! And a new computer! And probably spending all the money I had set away for a new(er) car in the distant future. But there's little enough excuse for going the parasite single route when you're working full-time and making decent money.
-The starting salary for librarians is actually lower in NYC and Queens than it is here--so I'd better get working on living independently and figuring out how to live frugally as soon as possible.
(Admittedly, they're about equal once you subtract $4000 a year as the average cost of owning and operating a car. But 'adjusted for cost of living,' NYC/Queens pay a meager $13,000 yearly).
-If I'm going to have any chance of getting employed in the NYC system, I'd better give at least another year for my Spanish to improve.
-Whenever I feel like I'm not very competent yet, I feel like I can't leave my job just as I'm starting to get competent.
So, I've decided to stay in my job at least another year (assuming that I don't do anything to get myself fired...) and get my own place. I think I've picked out a general area between NCSU and Cary, which is a great deal closer to downtown and to my job than I am now, but not so pricey as the trendy Glenwood South area. I will need furniture! And a new computer! And probably spending all the money I had set away for a new(er) car in the distant future. But there's little enough excuse for going the parasite single route when you're working full-time and making decent money.