I can has transportation nao?
Oct. 19th, 2009 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mercy_angel_09Finally, after several months of looking, I'm finally getting a new car. And by new car I mean a reliable car with working parts that will not crap out on me when I need it most. Booyah. It's a 2003 Mazda Protege ES, which currently belongs to a friend of mine. Since she just had a car handed to her, she needs to unload the Mazda and is giving me a really good deal - as in pay what's left of the loan and it's mine (which is a couple of thousand dollars LESS than KBB price). She's getting the windshield repaired tomorrow afternoon, and probably cleaning it out as well. Apparently it was detailed not too long ago but it's managed to get pretty messy in the past couple of weeks.
The car has everything I need - cruise control, working heat/AC, CD player, automatic transmission - and best of all, FOUR DOORS. HA.
Reliable transportation will go a long way in helping me look for a job, as I was really limiting myself to what I knew Dirty Diana could handle. I really never wanted to take her out of my immediate area, even if there were better job offers across town. Now with a halfway decent car, I can look around in a much broader area.
I'm still looking for something in the 9-5 range because even though a lot of the retail stores around here are starting their seasonal hiring, I know I'll get the crap shifts where I'd never see my husband. I'd much rather work a schedule where I can see my husband and not a "he comes home as I leave" sort of deal. It's irritating, to say the least, and not an easy thing for a fledgling marriage (hell, not an easy thing on an established marriage as my mom working one of those jobs was hell on her marriage to my step-dad). Besides, it's not like I NEED to work. Even if something happened and my husband was unable to work, we'd be set for a year - and that's just the savings. Of course if he was unable to work, I'd be turning my application to the large internet shopping site call center where most of my friends work ASAP. I know a decent job when I see one, but I don't necessarily need it at the moment.
At any rate, I'm just relieved that I'm going to have a running car soon.
The car has everything I need - cruise control, working heat/AC, CD player, automatic transmission - and best of all, FOUR DOORS. HA.
Reliable transportation will go a long way in helping me look for a job, as I was really limiting myself to what I knew Dirty Diana could handle. I really never wanted to take her out of my immediate area, even if there were better job offers across town. Now with a halfway decent car, I can look around in a much broader area.
I'm still looking for something in the 9-5 range because even though a lot of the retail stores around here are starting their seasonal hiring, I know I'll get the crap shifts where I'd never see my husband. I'd much rather work a schedule where I can see my husband and not a "he comes home as I leave" sort of deal. It's irritating, to say the least, and not an easy thing for a fledgling marriage (hell, not an easy thing on an established marriage as my mom working one of those jobs was hell on her marriage to my step-dad). Besides, it's not like I NEED to work. Even if something happened and my husband was unable to work, we'd be set for a year - and that's just the savings. Of course if he was unable to work, I'd be turning my application to the large internet shopping site call center where most of my friends work ASAP. I know a decent job when I see one, but I don't necessarily need it at the moment.
At any rate, I'm just relieved that I'm going to have a running car soon.
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Date: 2009-10-20 01:09 am (UTC)