Another grim tax season where "set aside about a third of your income" proves an inadequate savings strategy.
Me, for months: "28 percent... That's basically a third. And I am definitely not going to forget about any payments that came in and have them surprise me in April...."
Had a good run as a straightforward W2 employee, but it's back to the circus.
@ratamero Well I think partly this is first year stuff. I'm now weeks into going through all the business records and have learned a ton of stuff that, if I keep engaging this closely, will help a lot down the road.
But it absolutely seems like the real source of my trouble is I didn't accept that I have a big new part time gig as a corporate accountant and compliance officer. Picking up that knowledge is a huge upfront cost or, in my case, a backend cost because I missed so much.
A new year, a new grudging truce between me and Adobe. I agree to pay them half what they were demanding and they free me from weeks of trying to replicate Photoshop and Acrobat functions using open source stuff.
Feel like it's a sign of growth that I got right up to the line of creating a RAID 10 pool on my new NAS and then realized that was an absurd waste of space and money.
