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After six months of wringing my hands and tearing my hair out over it, my work finally gave me notice of confirmation of my position last week. I am officially, set-in-stone-for-the-forseeable-future, a trainee sonographer getting paid what I'm properly due! I now no longer have to entertain the prospect of joining the army (a job in which I have been keeping as a fall-back since November last year) or uprooting us again and moving away from here. It also amounted to an instant 26% pay-rise, though because I now get taxed more I'm still taking home much less pay than our lowest-ranked intern who rakes it in through on-call work that I don't get to do  All of this, and also getting engaged two weeks ago, has spurred me on towards overhauling our finances. We now have very specific savings targets to meet every pay period, and have strict budgets set in place through auto debit that take care of all must-meet (and some optional) expenses. My fiance is following my lead on this with 100% support, thank goodness - though if he weren't the sort to I wouldn't have proposed to him in the first place! He only has a part-time call center job while he's studying though, so things are tight. There's still a long way to go, but I'm expecting to achieve $100k in the bank by the end of 2015 for building our first eco-friendly house, as well as $20k in our Make-A-Baby fund by the time I turn 31 (28 now). Wish our little family luck, gentle goons.
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