{"id":611,"date":"2008-10-22T10:44:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T15:44:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-10-22T10:44:57","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T15:44:57","slug":"how-the-economy-affects-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"how the economy affects me"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2008 saw the cancellation of a few long-term freelance projects I was working on.<\/p>\n

I was curious last night and ran the financial numbers…<\/p>\n

My gross income at year’s end is going to be less than the previous year for the first time in my life. <\/p>\n

After running the numbers – it took me 9 months this year just to make half the amount of money in freelance that I made in 2007.<\/p>\n

I guess the sinking economy really is hurting everyone. My HOA dues are going up next year by $23 a month and the only other long-term big freelance client I have is closing down.<\/p>\n

I always thought I’d get a new (better) car when I’d had the 6 for 5 years. Now the car is rapidly deteriorating (even the in-dash storage compartment broke a few weeks ago) – but there is no way I can get a new car of even equal value for years to come unless something changes with my financial situation drastically. I certainly don’t need a new car – it runs well enough, just interesting how your situation changes all the time. <\/p>\n

With school on the way my financial situation is going to change drastically soon enough – just not in the right direction.<\/p>\n

And love life – well we won’t even touch the downswing in that market this year…<\/p>\n

My 401k and IRA are tanking – making me feel really good about being so “responsible for my age” and contributing to them.<\/p>\n

I just need some cheese to go with all this whine and I’ll have a nice picnic at the Getty. Oh wait – they close at 5pm now and raised the parking price to $10…. nevermind…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2008 saw the cancellation of a few long-term freelance projects I was working on. I was curious last night and ran the financial numbers… My gross income at year’s end is going to be less than the previous year for the first time in my life. After running the numbers – it took me 9 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}