Accountability: January 2020

Profile I am thirty five years old and I started out the month working as the General Stage Manager for a touring circus. I made $2,000 a week and had an approximate $40 per diem (issued in local currency). I finished out the month as a Visiting Instructor of Theatre Arts/Production Management at a state…

The Times They Are a Changin’

Today I’m writing from an East Midlands train on it’s way to Sheffield from London to go visit the city I used to live in and see some friends. I kind of decided on a whim to do this about three weeks ago. All told, between changing my flight, booking train tickets and a hotel…

Accountability: December 2019

Profile I am thirty five years old and I work as the General Stage Manager for a touring circus. I make $2,000 a week and have an approximate $40 per diem (issued in local currency). I’m currently living at home with my dad when I’m not on road, which Is a major factor in why…

Today’s Rambling on Money & Adulting

Guys, I have been struggling to find some topics to write about lately. I usually write a lot about whatever is going on in my life money-wise, but the weird and awesome thing lately is that my money stuff is all going fine. I think it’s fairly optimized. And, although it’s been a multiple year…

Accountability: November 2019

Profile I am thirty five years old and I work as the General Stage Manager for a touring circus. I make $2,000 a week and have an approximate $40 per diem (issued in local currency). I’m currently living at home with my dad when I’m not on road, which is a major factor in why…

Accountability: October 2019

Profile I am thirty five years old and I work as the General Stage Manager for a touring circus. I make $2,000 a week and have an approximate $40 per diem (issued in local currency). I’m currently living at home with my dad when I’m not on road, which Is a major factor in why…

Accountability: September 2019

Profile I am thirty five years old and I work as the General Stage Manager for a touring circus. I make $2,000 a week and have an approximate $40 per diem (issued in local currency). I’m currently living at home with my dad when I’m not on road, which Is a major factor in why…

Accountability: August 2019

Profile I am thirty five years old and I work as the General Stage Manager for a touring circus; however, we didn’t have any shows this month, so no stage managing income for me. I also didn’t get put on any calls at any of the theaters I work at as a stagehand. It has…

Accountability: July 2019

Profile I am thirty five years old and I work as the General Stage Manager for a touring circus. I make $2,000 a week and have a $40 per diem. The job really picks up starting mid-September, but I got back last week from spending most of July in Saudi Arabia. I will be kicking…

Accountability: June 2019

Profile I am thirty four years old and I started a new job with a touring circus on the last day of June. I’m pretty excited because it’s part time, so I get to go to crazy and amazing places for a few weeks and then come home for a few weeks. I make $2,000…

Accountability: May 2019

Profile I am thirty four years old and I’m still living the freelance/sabbatical life. My only monthly bill is my health insurance. I’m starting to consider my return to the rat race, but likely not until the end of summer. Though if anyone needs a darn good PSM starting mid/late August, give me a holler.…

Accountability: April 2019

Profile I am thirty four years old and I’m a freelance stage manager and blogger – and part-time vagabond. I live at my parent’s house right now and lately I travel a lot. I’m very lucky and don’t have to pay any rent. My only monthly bill is my health insurance. Saving & Spending I…

FI Checkpoint: Where Are You At?

FI Checkpoint: Where Are You At?

So this post is to point you guys in the direction of this fun quiz over at Cashflow Cop. Remember being a fourteen year old girl and taking quizzed in Seventeen to find out if you were a Dawson or a Pacey kind of girl? Weren’t you all fourteen year old girls once?? Well, fear not.…

Accountability: March 2019

Profile I am thirty four years old and I started out the month as the Stage Manager of Things That Go Ding! at Skylight Music Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. However, the show ended on the 3rdand I’ve spent the rest of the month as a vagabond. Saving & Spending This month I put $500 into my IRA…

Accountability: February 2019

Profile I am thirty four years old and the Stage Manager of Things That Go Ding! at Skylight Music Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I make $600 a week and live in company provided housing. I also received a $350 travel stipend. Saving & Spending I might sound like a little bit of a humble brag…

Accountability: January 2019

Profile I am thirty four years old and I am pretty much unemployed. Or I’m freelancing – that sounds much better. I’ve been a freelance stage manager and blogger this month. I mean, I am freelancing, it was just a purposely slow month. I’m calling it my hunker-down-under-the-trauma-of-my-mom’s-death-and-general-burnout-regarding-my-career month. Saving & Spending I may have…

New Year’s Resolutions: 2019

New Year’s Resolutions: 2019

Now that the champagne has been drunk (or the rumchata pudding shots consumed) and the official binge watching of The Twilight Zone has occurred, it does feel a little like a new year to me. I’ve mentioned a couple of times that I think a lot of my financial success has come from setting clear…

Accountability: December 2018

Profile I am thirty four years old and I was the Performance Director at Big Apple Circus. I made $70,000 a year and lived in a show provided RV. I also had health insurance through this job that was deducted straight from my paycheck, so I didn’t really count it in my bills since it’s…

Accountability: November 2018

Accountability: November 2018

Profile I am thirty four years old and the Performance Director at Big Apple Circus. I make $70,000 a year and live in a show provided RV. I also have health insurance through this job that’s deducted straight from my paycheck, so I don’t really count it in my bills since it’s never money I…

Accountability: October 2018 | brokeGIRLrich

Accountability: October 2018

Profile I am thirty four years old and the Performance Director at Big Apple Circus. I make $70,000 a year and live in a show provided RV. I also have health insurance through this job that’s deducted straight from my paycheck, so I don’t really count it in my bills since it’s never money I…

Accountability: September 2018

Accountability: September 2018

Profile I am thirty four years old and the Performance Director at Big Apple Circus. I make $70,000 a year and live in a show provided RV. I also have health insurance through this job that’s deducted straight from my paycheck, so I don’t really count it in my bills since it’s never money I…

The Financial In-Between Times

I recently figured out what this dragging feeling I have about my personal finances lately is – it’s an in-between time. I mean, I titled this blog brokeGIRLrich, because I think I hoped life would go something like broke POOF rich. Instead, my net worth is a little more like: There is no POOF in…

Accountability: August 2018

Accountability: August 2018

Profile I am thirty four years old and the Performance Director at Big Apple Circus. I make $70,000 a year and live in a show provided RV. I also have health insurance through this job that’s deducted straight from my paycheck, so I don’t really count it in my bills since it’s never money I…

5 Years of Blogging Recap

With all my excitement of going to Iceland and turning 34, I forgot another very important anniversary. brokeGIRLrich turned five! Holy crap, if it were a kid, I’d have a kindergartener. In internet blogging years, it’s more like I’ve got a sassy high schooler on my hands. So many of the blogs that were around…