So I got a temp job and now i'm saving

Finally got my shit together after 2 and a half months of being back home...

Got some temp work with the job agency in an office...crap pay but I look at it as every hour i work computes into half a day in asia. I work with a woman who is from nepal which is quite cool because we can both bitch and moan about how much we'd rather be trekking and hanging out with yaks than working in an office...

already have 250 quid saved which is quite cool...*only* another 2000 to go!

3 months...12 weeks realistically and i'll be on the road again. I'm so determined to get out of here again.

Anyone else got escape plans?

 

You bet I've got escape plans!

I've been planning my exodus for 4 months now.

I just need a job that I can quit later on in the summer.

 

where are you escaping too?

 

i wanna escape to england/ireland/france...I need to get passport/visa first.

 

and quite a large sum of cash...

 

well...$1000-$1500 savings plus... plane ticket visa and passport are paid for... that thousand+ should do it for months rent, months food and other bare nesseceties. it takes 3-7 days to look and find a job. after that, its tough with low money count but where there is a will theres a way. its not like it requires A LOT of cash. just a thousand or two.

i call it the two year plan, finish college here first than bam! gone

 

700 quid saved, 1,300 to go!!

i swear my office job pulling staples out of letters and documents wont break me!

 

Good work on the job front Peter! When you start working and the money starts acumulating you don't feel as shit about things, there's the light at the end of the tunnell!!

I'm heading in October, get out before winter starts here. Heading to South America. I'm gonna start in Ecuador and take it from there. I've €3000 saved already. Can't wait really. It's a pain in the ass working all the time.There's no concept of 'carpe diem' when you're stuck in the rat race. I'd love to go sooner but I want to save as much as I can so I can spend a year on the road this time. I thought about going to Pakistan and then from there back to India but I think I need to see other places before I go back there again which I will in a few years. After South America I might go on to Australia or New Zealand for a year.

 

South America is definitely on the agenda for me at some point in the future...I was actually going to go there but decided on asia last time a few months before.

La Paz the capital of Bolivia looks awesome built into that crater of a mountain with the mountain peak in the background...Also those huge salt plains you can drive across...Peru with all the Inca stuff looks great too. Macchu Picchu or whatever its called...Definitely would go trekking in the Andes...Yeah south america sounds very cool.

ha yeah well I have to wait until September to go which isnt so bad because at least I can enjoy the summer here then when it starts getting cold I can shoot off into more sunshine
Last week I totally freaked everyone out though because I was having problems at work and basically totally lost it for a few hours and actually started talking about just fleeing to Bangkok in a couple of days to take my chances in finding a teaching job somewhere in Lao or Cambodia!! I'd actually started packing too...Luckily, to the relief of my friends and family I calmed down a bit and realised I was probably making a mistake! Quite amusing in retrospect...Spent the rest of the day muttering "fucking country" constantly though lol

 

Haha, I had a freak out on monday just gone after going to a festival for 3 days and caning it too hard, had some seriously blues going on and was considering a quick escape also! I reckon I could leave in September if I want, I might actually as work is seriously beginning to get boring and I'm forgetting how good it was on the road, I'm getting sucked back into the rat race. How's the saving treating you now Pete, still going well?

 

ha, well mate I lost my job...I went on a weeks holiday and they rang me half way through to say that there wasnt enough work coming through at the office anymore so I wouldn't have a job when I got back...You can imagine how pissed off I was, they pretty much promised me the job for as long as I wanted it.

So I wrote them an e-mail giving them a piece of my mind! Lets just say i'll never be working for them every again after that e-mail! lol

So i'm unemployed at the moment and there is fuck all work because all the students are back from uni for the summer. It's been two weeks and still nothing...I may well have to just bite the bullet and take some shitty job in a factory or work 2 or 3 part time jobs as a cleaner..I mean, I have about 600 quid saved so i'm about a third of the way there..Have to scrape away getting money from wherever I can...I'm painting Thangkas at the moment and i'm going to try to sell these to rich people for some extra cash...you never know.

I know what you mean about getting bluesey. Whenever anything upsets me or I feel frustrated I immediently get memories of asia and I think how if I really wanted to I could buy a single to bangkok and try my luck teaching english out there! It's safe to say i'm getting these thoughts a lot recently!

Where are you working at the moment?

 

Oh and one thing I realised recently...

It doesn't pay for me to get too caught up about leaving. If i'm constantly thinking about hitting the road again this just makes me depressed...For the moment i'm stuck here and theres nothing I can do about it so i'm just enjoying this little chapter of my life as best as I can! Even if it is incredibly frustarting at times!

 

I'm working in a bank. Take a factory job man, fuck it!!! I've worked all sorts of jobs over the years, supermarkets, building site, picking strawberries etc etc, it's all cash and when you're sunnin it up in SEA you won't care!!