A Little More Personal
I’ve been thinking about this blog a lot lately. I’ve thought about what it is I wanted to achieve with this blog and whether or not I’m actually doing that. After that little brain exercise, I decided that I needed to add just a little bit more “me” to all of this.
It makes sense. This is not my first adventure into the blogging world. I actually starting blogging when I was about 14, which is almost ten years ago. That was back when blogging was new, and all of my friends and I started our own blogs filled with teenaged angst and some posts that only consisted of song lyrics or random quotes that described what it is we were feelings that day. We were pretty much the only readers of those blogs, but we didn’t care because we were expressing ourselves and enjoying our life.
I started this blog because I wanted to be different from all the other blogs out there on this subject, which are mostly mom blogs or financial advise blogs. I wanted to make the type of blog that I wanted to be reading, something for people my age that recognizes that you can still struggle even if you don’t have five kids and a spouse, or that a college degree doesn’t automatically mean you’re set for life. I want to read a blog where I know I’m not the only one who’s struggling to find a good job, can’t quite pay off those student loans, and wants to have fun and enjoy life even though I haven’t quite figured out how to make life work yet.
So here we go.
In case you haven’t gathered yet, my name is Tiffany. I live in Chicago with my boyfriend and a small zoo of two rabbits and a chinchilla. I graduated a year and a half ago with a BA in Fiction Writing. When I entered school, it was under the assumption that this was the best thing I could have ever done for myself and that having a college degree would basically guarantee good jobs and opportunities to do things that I enjoy. That was wrong, but I didn’t know. I took out loans and did everything I could to ensure I got that degree. By the time I realized what a huge mess I was in, I was in too deep to do anything but plow through and finish. Now I have six figure debt that I have been unable to start paying down.
A lot has changed since I started this blog. It was supposed to be a side project, a fun creative outlet to counteract the miserable job I was working just to survive. Things were looking up, I was about to get promoted, and it looked like for the first time since graduation I’d have enough money to live and pay back my loans, and I thought that maybe, just maybe everything would be okay. Then, due to no fault of my own, I lost my job. That changed everything: the entire focus of my blog and my life shifted. Suddenly everything became about how to survive with just $1000 in savings and some piddly income from online sources, and trying to find another job. All in all, those aren’t necessarily fun.
But I do try to have fun. I’m working on a novel (aren’t we all?). I love to read, spend time with my pets, watch movies, go to the theater, and explore the city. I like crafts, art, drawing, and learning to do new things. I just have to be smart about all of these things. That’s where the thriftiness comes in. The question always is, “How do I have fun and enjoy life spending the smallest amount as money possible?” That’s the reason I started this blog.
But I’d like to hear from my readers as well (I know you’re out there, even if you don’t make your presence known most of the time!). This isn’t just about me, it’s mostly about you. It’s about me sharing my life and my tips for you, so we all can get more out of the opportunities and resources we have. So what do you want to see? What do you want to learn? What don’t you want me waxing on about for posts on end? Tell me.
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