My funds are as follows(I don't obsessively check the dollar amounts so this could be off by about $100):
[*]Savings: ~$1,000
[*]CD: ~$1,500
[*]Checking: $3,600
[*]FAFSA Refund: ~$1,300
My FAFSA refund will be going into my checkings. My checking account actually has an interest rate of about 0.05%. I get paid around 50 cents a month because of it
. My goals and aspirations for my career has changed so much since I first started this journal. I'm not going into engineering. It would be too much time and money as my Associate's doesn't transfer a lot of credits. Instead I'm doing a 2+2 transfer to a State University. It's a Bachelor's in Technology Management. No, not Information Technology Management. The classes are easy enough and some of the assigned reading is where I learn the most, not so much the quizzes and tests. I hope by having the privilege of being able to save in college I will be able to move to a more populated city to pursue web development. For the best 6 months I've been learning HTML/CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and starting Ruby. The first two months I went from tutorial to tutorial learning Python, but I just was getting stuck learning about classes and instances. By the completion of Bachelor's I'll have the Bachelor's plus two years of web development experience. I may have to work in a factory after school to save up the money to move, but I'll take that as it comes. I'm thinking of moving to Philadelphia because: a) High walk score b) Good public transit c) Web Dev jobs and meetups.
I still have a back injury that I'm actively trying to improve. Standing desk + McGill excercises have been reducing my pain levels. I've been at pain levels of zero but I stopped McGill exercises and increased my time sitting, which led to a recurrence of back pain.
