You Can Budget All You Want, People Have to Pay You First

Monday Money Check-in: July 10, 2017

Paulette Perhach
Jul 10, 2017 · 1 min read

Spent: $101 in disposable income. $1 over budget — woo hoo!

Earned: I only earned $450, and I need to bill $1,000 every week to make my budget work. So this week I need to earn $1,550. I have the work I can do. I’m on a book deadline, and literally none of that work counts toward any money. I’m probably making $2 an hour, all told. Haha. So, as a writer, it can feel like I’m working a lot, but then I realize that it’s not billable. I have to be more careful about that.

Amount in checking: $13. Can someone fucking pay me please??? Working for overseas publications is killing me. The money takes forever to get to me.

Fuck Off Funding

Practicing and preaching financial self-defense

Paulette Perhach

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Paulette Perhach has been published at The New York Times, ELLE, Marie Claire, and Cosmo.

Fuck Off Funding

Practicing and preaching financial self-defense

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