Comments on: I LOVE having a net worth of Negative $2,000!!!!!!! http://www.punchdebtintheface.com/2009/03/i-love-having-net-worth-of-negative.html A fun personal finance blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: FB @ FabulouslyBroke.com http://www.punchdebtintheface.com/2009/03/i-love-having-net-worth-of-negative.html#comment-711 FB @ FabulouslyBroke.com Sun, 03 May 2009 01:09:00 +0000 http://www.punchdebtintheface.com/?p=44#comment-711 I think it'll be a fantastic experience for you. For me, it was anti-climatic to be out of debt and be in a positive net worth.<br /><br />I thought I'd go out and celebrate.. but in the end, no :) Not so much.<br /><br />Now the hard part is just hanging on to the money all the while trying to find another contract I think it’ll be a fantastic experience for you. For me, it was anti-climatic to be out of debt and be in a positive net worth.

I thought I’d go out and celebrate.. but in the end, no :) Not so much.

Now the hard part is just hanging on to the money all the while trying to find another contract

]]> By: skeeter319902 http://www.punchdebtintheface.com/2009/03/i-love-having-net-worth-of-negative.html#comment-597 skeeter319902 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:09:00 +0000 http://www.punchdebtintheface.com/?p=44#comment-597 Great words of inspiration. Thanks! Great words of inspiration. Thanks!

]]> By: Punch Debt In The Face http://www.punchdebtintheface.com/2009/03/i-love-having-net-worth-of-negative.html#comment-596 Punch Debt In The Face Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:25:00 +0000 http://www.punchdebtintheface.com/?p=44#comment-596 Remember this (hopefully words of inspiration)...there will only be debts to pay as long as we keep borrowing money. So we need to be committed to rarely, if ever again, financing the purchase of any material belonging (except a home). We can't change the poor financial moves we made in the past, but we can do our darndest to make sure we don't do it again. As far as grad school, I have flirted with the idea of further education, but just can't find myself to commit to it. If I was to go to grad school I would probably get an MBA or some equally boring business related degree just because it looks good on paper at some places. I know for sure that I WOULD NOT go to grad school unless I was ABSOLUTELY convinced that the masters I was seeking was going to benefit me greatly (remember further education doesn't always mean higher salary). It is WAAAAAY to expensive for me to consider doing, mainly because I would only be doing it to do it, and not because I genuinely wanted to be there. (Side note, in college I actually studied and took the MCAT, the medical school test, and did okay on it, but when I got the government gig I decided to put med school on the backburner... so glad cause I don't think med school was the right fit for me). Remember this (hopefully words of inspiration)…there will only be debts to pay as long as we keep borrowing money. So we need to be committed to rarely, if ever again, financing the purchase of any material belonging (except a home). We can’t change the poor financial moves we made in the past, but we can do our darndest to make sure we don’t do it again. As far as grad school, I have flirted with the idea of further education, but just can’t find myself to commit to it. If I was to go to grad school I would probably get an MBA or some equally boring business related degree just because it looks good on paper at some places. I know for sure that I WOULD NOT go to grad school unless I was ABSOLUTELY convinced that the masters I was seeking was going to benefit me greatly (remember further education doesn’t always mean higher salary). It is WAAAAAY to expensive for me to consider doing, mainly because I would only be doing it to do it, and not because I genuinely wanted to be there. (Side note, in college I actually studied and took the MCAT, the medical school test, and did okay on it, but when I got the government gig I decided to put med school on the backburner… so glad cause I don’t think med school was the right fit for me).

]]> By: skeeter319902 http://www.punchdebtintheface.com/2009/03/i-love-having-net-worth-of-negative.html#comment-595 skeeter319902 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:15:00 +0000 http://www.punchdebtintheface.com/?p=44#comment-595 Whats kind of a downer is although I don't have student loan debt anymore, I have car loan debt (about $9k of it) and so does my hubby (about $10k; he totaled his car in a accident, we carpooled for a long time, it won't work anymore when I go back to grad school in the evenings) and his student loan debt (about $9k) and college wasn't his thing but its still there. So we kind of even out at the end give or take a few thousand, just different kinds of debt. I have a spreadsheet of my budget like yours (it gave me goosebumps to see someone else's). Seems like there's always a debt to pay off or money to save for something. Sometimes it feels like a hampster wheel, sigh, I need a soda to boost my optimism. <br/>Job/house deal sounds good. Being near a beach will be nice for a few years, then get a transfer back to Texas.<br/>I don't remember if you talked about grad school in your About Me section but would you go to grad school and if so, in what field? Whats kind of a downer is although I don’t have student loan debt anymore, I have car loan debt (about $9k of it) and so does my hubby (about $10k; he totaled his car in a accident, we carpooled for a long time, it won’t work anymore when I go back to grad school in the evenings) and his student loan debt (about $9k) and college wasn’t his thing but its still there. So we kind of even out at the end give or take a few thousand, just different kinds of debt. I have a spreadsheet of my budget like yours (it gave me goosebumps to see someone else’s). Seems like there’s always a debt to pay off or money to save for something. Sometimes it feels like a hampster wheel, sigh, I need a soda to boost my optimism.
Job/house deal sounds good. Being near a beach will be nice for a few years, then get a transfer back to Texas.
I don’t remember if you talked about grad school in your About Me section but would you go to grad school and if so, in what field?

]]> By: Punch Debt In The Face http://www.punchdebtintheface.com/2009/03/i-love-having-net-worth-of-negative.html#comment-594 Punch Debt In The Face Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:42:00 +0000 http://www.punchdebtintheface.com/?p=44#comment-594 Heck Yeah Ms. Skeeter. Hit me up in two years and I'll hit Obama up on his cell and put in a good word for you. Way to kill it and pay off your undergrad student loan (you make me jealous). The gov't gig is pretty awesome, but I'm wishing the San Diego housing market was affordable like in TX. How bout a trade. I'll get ya a job, you get me a house? Deal?! Heck Yeah Ms. Skeeter. Hit me up in two years and I’ll hit Obama up on his cell and put in a good word for you. Way to kill it and pay off your undergrad student loan (you make me jealous). The gov’t gig is pretty awesome, but I’m wishing the San Diego housing market was affordable like in TX. How bout a trade. I’ll get ya a job, you get me a house? Deal?!

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