sqwarkdemon
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A little update.
🕑 Added 2020-02-15 23:52:03 +0000 UTCLet's talk about my life in February.
While I love my roommates and I love all the support they've given me, we've hit an impasse.
You see, when I left my last job I unsurprisingly didn't have any money to pay my rent and after a few bills and unexpected payments my bank account was pretty skimpy. My friend, who ran a private film development firm, invited me on as a temp while I found another job. At the same time he had inherited a house that he could move into as long as he paid the monthly mortgage.
I was allowed to stay as long as I paid all the utilities and the internet bill, while also providing security by staying inside all the time while they all went out to film.
This worked for a while, and often he'd pay me to work on projects as a backup but quickly I found myself working full-time instead, and I wasn't happy with that.
To make a long story short: we have had a falling out. No big surprise, we all saw this coming. His dad wants the house back to sell, and he and the rest of the guys are going their separate ways.
However I'm not going with them. I wasn't invited to.
Because of this this means that my main income is now Patreon. And while $500 a month is cool and all it's... really not paying any bills.
I've been scrabbling to find a new job to try to pay some bills in the meantime, but between potentially being made homeless, not having a job, and not yet being completely self-sufficient on Patreon, I'm stressed out of my face and I'm not making much progress.
Yes, this is a situation where I'm going to have to bite the bullet and, for a while, move in back with my mum.
I'm hoping this is gonna be temporary, but I have literally no idea how long it'll take me to find a job because I can't really use my friend as a job reference and my last jobs don't have active emails anymore so I'm going to need to search.
There's another story that's a little more personal to me, but it's just kinda depressing so all I'll say is that I didn't have a date for Valentines Day.
So... February has been rough so far.
I guess, in a good way, I can start putting more time towards my animations now. But... I'll probably be moving back home on the 1st of March. Which is gonna be fun.
Don't worry about me - I'll just be fine. I'm just having a rough patch.
Just thought I'd explain why I've been fairly quiet.
