Earning

I have been living comfortably ever since I became a tax payer. By comfortably, I meant being able to buy the things I need and most of those that I want.  A plus factor is that I am not a high maintenance person, though I still enjoy some lavishness from time to time. 

I am single.  I have no kids nor a family to support, yet. Thus, I earn just to sustain my lifestyle, yet again.  However, during these times that the cost of living keeps defying gravity and rather flies like an unleashed kite while workpay stays on the sand, how do I get to sustain my own lifestyle?  Plus fact, in later years that I decide to multiply, how do I sustain these others that are products of mine?

Now, I look around and it makes me wonder how a student’s tuition fee costs almost a month of a person’s salary and still has a lot more things to pay, on a regular basis.  That as I age, everything goes up except for the salaries.  I really don’t know who or what to blame on this dilemma, but, I’d rather focus on what I could do to myself to adjust when the situation calls on me. 

Here’s me: I have this addiction to clothes, bags and shoes.  Vanity, as they say, but that’s what makes me happy. And, I work my ass off to be able to afford splurging on these. I starve myself to afford to look new every week.  And that’s where my monthly pay goes. Well, aside from the consequences of being a girl like the toiletries and pampering stuffs which eat a huge amount of my earnings.  Come to think of it, that’s a big part of what I work for, actually.

But what if responsibilities get bigger? What if the nation’s economy finally gets drunk and plunges to the ground?  How do I maintain my lifestyle then?

Seriously, I’m considering a sideline, a business, or an additional career.  Something which can use up my extra time while I stare at the windows stressing my emotions.  Something I could do while the devil plays on my playground and the angels clean up its mess. I am not to see myself restricted from what I could do because I simply can’t afford it, given that I am not high maintenance.  I don’t want to get deprived.  I don’t want to trim down my lifestyle.  I need what I need and I want what I want. Now. Before it’s too late.

So, where do I start? That’s the next problem, though. :p

Bitin lang.