Still on track!

So the job change has cased a little bit of a hiccup in my financial plans, which I had planned for and am happy to say I am now done with. It’s not a big deal – it basically comes down to my new job having a slightly different payroll schedule, and of course the fact that there’s a certain lag between when I start and my first paycheck. In order to be prepared, I basically held off on Baby Step 2 until my first paycheck from my new job. At that time I figured everything would be okay, and I could use the accumulated amount towards Baby Step 2.

It worked – but I have to say that psychologically, I felt very much off-track during that time. I had almost forgotten how much I loved putting money on my car loan and seeing the balance drop. So when I finally put another principal payment on my car loan, which was an amount equal to what had accumulated while between jobs, well, it felt pretty good.

I’m happy to say that I feel like I’m on track again – not that I was really ever off track – but I feel good that I’m able to see progress again.

I like my new job, although, I have to admit I miss my old job. A lot. It’s strange how you miss the things you took for granted. At my old job my lead was able to teach me a LOT. I like being on the learning side of things. At my new job – I hesitate to say this, but it’s true – I’m smarter than my lead, and it bothers me. I continually have to explain things to him, and sometimes he doesn’t get it. I think he’s just inexperienced, and maybe a little over his head in his position. He also likes to argue, especially when he feels defensive (I sense just a little bit of male machismo in his defensiveness/argumentativeness). Now I know that all this sounds pompous, but I’m not sure how else to explain it.

I really miss my old job. I miss being able to ask my lead questions and learn from him.

After my first week at my new job I had made the decision to work this all out as a challenge – in other words, see if I can learn from the experience rather than run from it. I was in a very similar situation a long time ago, and I found another job as quickly as I could. This time I’m going to see if I can work through this, and learn from it.

At any rate, I’m on-track, or back on the Baby Step 2 express.