Thursday, October 13, 2005

First Paycheck!

I earned 376.00 from September 16 to September 30. This is from working 47 hours. Of this I got to keep 358.71. I will give my mom 150.00 of this, leaving me with 208.71 USD! At the current exchange rate that is around 1600 SEK! Wee! That's only half a month's pay too. This means that I pay about 4.6% in taxes. I can plan on that now. I put in a timesheet today. I'll get paid on the 25th for it. It should come out to 432.00 before taxes and 412 after taxes. I should get to keep all of that since I'll already have paid half of my monthly expenses and that's all my mom's asked me to pay. This means at the end of this month I'll be around 620 dollars richer! Wooo! That isn't a bad take for a month. It's 99 hours of work though! While studying full time!

Somehow actually getting the paycheck and depositing it into the account makes the work seem much more worthwhile. It'll be hard when I lose the weekend work and I'll be back down to 10 hours a week instead of 26. I'll see if I can add Monday afternoons onto my working week so that I can earn more money. The more money I earn, the happier I will be! This weekend I'm not working though... this means 16 less hours of work this week... but I need the small break.

I mailed David's birthday card off today. It didn't make it into today's mail, but it'll go out tomorrow. I wonder how long it will take to get there. I hope he will be happy when he gets it.

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