{"id":1726,"date":"2006-05-11T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2006-05-11T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T02:55:00","slug":"on-accounts-overextended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1726","title":{"rendered":"On accounts overextended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I constructed my first (admittedly crude) spreadsheet to examine my financial future.  It&#8217;s not looking stunningly bad, but it&#8217;s certainly not stunningly good.  I do not anticipate an early retirement.<\/p>\n<p>I should be out of credit card debt by the beginning of 2008, if I pay about $750\/month, plus the minimums on other things.  Adding that 750 to the minimum payment on my debt consoldation loan would rid me of my remaining commercial debt by the beginning of 2009.  This is aggressive, but doable.  The student loans will take longer, but really, at that interest rate, I&#8217;m not too worried.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really regret the course I&#8217;ve taken to be where I am.  If I had anything to do over again, I&#8217;d have cut and run from computer science earlier.  But I&#8217;ve met alot of fun people, and it&#8217;s been a foot in the door everywhere I&#8217;ve been, so maybe not even that.  My inner accountant wails a bit, but he&#8217;s a quiet voice amid the hubub.  <\/p>\n<p>I would not give up on getting to know Ro, Simon, <lj user=k8to>, <lj user=wrynathan>, the bay area, <lj user=antioch523>, <lj user=tyedie>, etc, etc.  The idea of unmaking me by losing those experiences just seems crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I constructed my first (admittedly crude) spreadsheet to examine my financial future. It&#8217;s not looking stunningly bad, but it&#8217;s certainly not stunningly good. I do not anticipate an early retirement. I should be out of credit card debt by the beginning of 2008, if I pay about $750\/month, plus the minimums on other things. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1726\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On accounts overextended&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}