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So, I didn't realise that the place I work at does annual reviews not 12 months after you start but at the end of the calendar year for everyone (when I was booked in for a "review" along with everyone else I thought it was just an end of year chat). It went really well - I got a bit of a pay bump in addition to CPI increase which was a really lovely way to end the year ๐ after how things went down at my old workplace it is really nice for a change to feel appreciated in a meaningful way!
housing musings
Even then, as a single without parental support and years of lower wages/saving due to being on various visas, I still don't think I can get anywhere close to housing security without being able to save dramatically on rent while working at least 3-4 days a week.Work has intimated that I could work remotely (and they clearly want me to stay on, so keen to be flexible).
So in Jan I'm going to seriously float the question to my aunt and uncle about staying there for 3-6 months. It'll be challenging working fully remotely interstate and living under senior relatives' roof, but it seems like the only way forward if I want to escape rental hell any time soon.
It does feel pointless working towards a deposit when it's like scrabbling desperately for a ticket to a train hurtling towards an inferno (re: climate change). I've accepted I won't be a homesteader and I'll be the first to go if society collapses. So this won't be part of some permaculture self-sufficiency dream.
Part of me also just wants to go fuckit and break off, travel for a while...
But I also am increasingly wanting a stable home base as I see my parents generation might be gone within ten years, and I don't want to float forever.
Just want some stability before shit hits the fan regardless - without feeling like I need to bust a gut and be shackled to work to make it happen either. Two bedrooms, sunlit and a small garden in a nice enough community - it sounds incompatible with wanting to not be trapped in a mortgage for decades... right? Right? (insert prequel meme)
I don't know what the calculations would be on making it all happen yet, but I think starting that journey is definitely on the cards for 2025. So many chapters are closing, this represents a way out, something definitely needs to change...
Okay, off to the kids clothes shop to hopefully get this overcharge resolved without any fuss, then heaps of washing, laundromat, and a bitta work.
E: the overcharge thing went really well, turns out there was a further 20% off the already discounted price so I got $33 back. Worth the trip! ๐
Also cheesed off someone by "stealing" their parking spot but cmon they were trying to turn right into it across Station St, Fairfield - I didn't see them, it's technically illegal and I doubt they would've made the angle park without mounting the median and maybe nearly collecting a cyclist. It was just a 30 min park anyway. It's a shit area to park but deal with it.
I hope the new year brings you more hope, clarity and stability. ๐
I hope so too! It feels like good things might be on their way, most hopeful I've felt in a while. That said, last time I felt this way was 2019-2020 (despite the fires and early news of covid) so I'm hoping I don't jinx 2025 ๐ฅฒ
You're not going to jinx it. You're gonna blossom.