College/Work/Money -
February 20th 2014, 02:31 PM
College is going very well this term. However, I have all these stressors of money. Like any College student nearing the study time of 8 months, when there is about 7 weeks left of classes.
I've been applying non-stop to places, on the phone getting my name to them so they will look at my resume and application. I have a very good resume that anyone would like to see in their employees.
The thing is, I am covered for rent for March and got my bus pass for March. Ideally I prefer to pay my landlord 4 weeks in advance or 2 weeks in advance. Now, it's not required of me to pay that early on, I just feel it's easier for me to transfer the money into his account.
I hope one of these jobs pulls through for me. Once Spring comes and College is done, I'm going to hold two jobs (both full-time or part-time) to get myself ahead of the game for University. However, I feel I may not be able to pay my landlord Aprils rent. I hope things fall through for me. If I do in fact get a job in March I'm not notifying the College.
I've received under 2 grand in bursaries. The one bursary of a grand was because I am first generation, the second one was from I had no money, I was broke and the third one, I guess they felt sorry for me because well, I couldn't afford a text book which I wanted to rent and couldn't.
They basically say, "you shouldn't be in a deficient" well I am, because well I messed up on calculating things. They also don't understand the fact I have no family, whereas, a lot of students there do have families. This term alone, there is only one I can apply to.
Oh, and I can start saving a lot of money because my roommate offered to drive me to the grocery store when he goes, every other week. Well guess what, I am broke and can't go. My hopes is I can accept his offer, buy canned things, buy in bulk, where it's not carried it's basically driven back to the house. I now have to come up with an excuse and say I am busy then... urgh...
Also what messed me up was a unpaid cell phone bill of 2 months, so the added fees, on top of that another bill because of yet another added fees. I would have been fine but I got behind on my bill and one is coming up soon and I am screwed, yet again.
So my questions are:
How can I lower my stress of money concerns when I have 6 weeks of saving grace till my next payment for rent and bus pass?
Any advice or suggestions would be amazing.
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