Extra income

I've got design jobs lined up! Yay! I'll be making flyers again. Double yay! And I'll be getting paid for it. Triple yay!

For as long as I can remember, I have always been incapable of making money on the side. While my family isn't what you'd call rich, my parents have always made sure we got as much as they could give us. I never starved, my clothes were clean (to some extent, and I was usually responsible for sullying them anyway), I always got candy whenever I asked for it (I may as well confess now: I used to be a candy shoplifter...shhhhh it's a secret). I didn't (maybe I still don't) really care about having a lot of money (I think it's because I find poverty a little bit romantic, I mean you don't know whether or not you're eating today, you don't know if you can scrounge up enough cash to pay for tuition etc, and I've never really been materialistic, if I did want something, I'd figure out a way to get the money for it. Money's a commodity you can always get, it just depends on how resourceful you are. Take for instance a couple of years ago, I got obsessed with playing guitar. My dad got me an acoustic guitar when I told him I wanted to learn how to play an instrument. I played that thing day and night, I wouldn't sleep, I wouldn't eat, instead of going to class, I'd be playing my guitar. Till I broke it, I had wound the strings so tight that they ripped the bridge off completely, rendering it irreparable although I did try to superglue it back together. Well later on I learned that the main reason is that it was actually a classical guitar and that it came with nylon strings. But I wanted to rock (!) so I replaced them with steel ones. Naturally it didn't work out well. No one warned me about that hehe. So I got another one, an actual acoustic one and and broke that too soon after its purchase. So I said to myself: I WANT AN ELECTRIC GUITAR RAWWWRRR!!! Yes, exactly like that. Hihi. Well what I wanted was a PRS guitar with abalone inlays. Either a Standard 22 or a McCarty or a Custom 22. In scarlet red. Yeah, sooooo HOT! But they cost so much and anyway they aren't available here so if I had had it shipped over, it would have cost me well over 5000 US. But I digress and will continue to till I make my way back to the point.

So anyway, I found a beautiful black Gibson Epiphone guitar but pride wouldn't let me cajole my parents into getting it for me. Plus they're really big on teaching their kids "the value of money" so an electric guitar was totally out of the question anyway. I was a language major for crying out loud. So what I did was I became an assistant to this French documentarist lady. I was still at uni at the time so I had no real previous work experience. That was actually fun. Incidentally enough, she was the one who introduced me to Photoshop and the wonderful world of layout design. But the objective was electric guitar acquisition! So as soon as I had enough saved up, which was about five months later, I told her my priorities had changed and that I was going to help finish the work on the current project but that I couldn't come round anymore after that. It was guitar madness. Hihi oh that was bliss.

But yeah after that, I wanted more more more. Ah the sweet hierarchy of wants. And I always managed to get by with employee money. So pleasant surprise now, it seems that I've got a sort of regular extra cash flow system in the works here.

So you see, if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything...or maybe you just have to be a lucky bastard.