Profile I am thirty-nine years old, a digital event producer and occasional freelance stage manager. I make $55/hour at the digital production company I work with, though work has been very slow this year. I work a variety of small side hustles and am a full-time student working on a PhD in Drama. Spending &…
Profile I am thirty five years old and I am a Visiting Instructor of Theatre Arts/Production Management at a state university, where I make $26,418.51 for the semester. Spending & Saving Life is still weird. Yet here we are. My spending focused a lot on random things to stay busy – some books, some sheet…
Profile I am thirty two years old and I am the Production Stage Manager for the national tour of FAME. I make $700 per week and a $300 weekly stipend, though this week I only worked 10 days out of the month, which was not so awesome. Saving & Spending What can I say other…
If I could give every aspiring young stage manager one career tip, it would be: do what you say you’re going to do. And honestly, I’d give anyone aspiring to do anything that tip. I really wish I could remember the first person who told me that, because it definitely lodged itself in my mind…
Profile I am thirty one years old and technically, I am still the stage manager and lighting director for a touring children’s theater show called Clifford the Big Red Dog Live! Although this month has been month one of a two month unpaid layoff. I worked as a stagehand where I went to college for…
Profile I am thirty one years old and I am a stage manager and lighting director for a touring children’s theater show called Clifford the Big Red Dog Live! I make $700 a week and get a $30 per diem for each travel day. I pay no rent and have about $210 in monthly bills.…
Profile I am thirty years old and I am a stage manager/lighting director for a show out on tour. I have no rent and no real bills… although there’s a good chance I should actually invest in some health insurance. I’m not 100% sold on that idea yet though. I make $700 a week with…
Not my most advertised fact, but I actually went to a strict, Baptist college at one point in my life and accountability was a huge thing there. There were mandatory prayer groups to create a little circle of folks who would keep you accountable and Spiritual Life Directors in each dorm who were expected to…
Profile I am thirty years old and I am a stage manager/lighting director for a show out on tour. I have no rent and no real bills… although there’s a good chance I should actually invest in some health insurance. I’m not 100% sold on that idea yet though. I make $700 a week with…
Profile I am thirty years old and I still work as an assistant production manager… for a few more weeks. I’m debt free, live in one of the most expensive cities in America… for a few more weeks, and my yearly salary is $53,560… for a few more weeks. Saving & Spending So savings wise,…
Profile I am thirty years old and where the heck did September go? I work as an assistant production manager and, my yearly salary is $53,560. Saving & Spending I managed to put a few hundred dollars more in my IRA, but not as much as I had hoped. On the plus side, I’m only…
Profile I am thirty years old and the first full month of my 30’s didn’t go so badly. It still might be the year of Mel. I work as an assistant production manager and, my yearly salary is $53,560. Saving & Spending: The Good The good has been the $600 that went into my IRA…
Profile I am thirty years old and this is the first accountability update of my thirties. I am so going to nail this decade. It’s the year of Mel. I work as an assistant production manager and to start out the year of Mel, my yearly salary increased to $53,560. Not a huge jump, but I’m…
Profile I am twenty-nine years old and this is my last accountability update of my twenties. Yikes! I work as an assistant production manager and my yearly salary is $52,000. Saving & Spending June was a pretty steady month money wise. Due to a death in the family, I was actually home for about a…
Profile I am twenty-nine years old. I work as an assistant production manager and my yearly salary is $52,000. I live in NYC, aka the most expensive place on earth, and am still often wondering why on earth I left my last job where room and board were part of my salary. Saving & Spending…
Profile I am twenty-nine years old. I work as an assistant production manager and my yearly salary is $52,000. I live in NYC, aka the most expensive place on earth, and am often wondering why on earth I left my last job where room and board were part of my salary. Saving & Spending To…
Profile I am twenty-nine years old. I work as an assistant production manager and my yearly salary is $52,000. I guess my budget skills are doing ok, since I managed to not bankrupt myself so far. Saving & Spending So this month I learned that monthly bills are stressful and I am super impressed and…
Profile I am twenty-nine years old. I work as an assistant production manager and my yearly salary is $52,000. I am about to acquire a ton of bills for the first time in my life when I move into my own apartment in January, so I suppose I better brush up on my budgeting skills.…
Profile I am twenty-nine years old. I work as an associate production manager and my yearly salary is $38,000. I live on a train most of the year and stay with my parents for free during my vacations, so I have no rent or utilities to pay other than a $50 a month internet fee…
Profile I am twenty-nine years old. I work as an associate production manager and my yearly salary is $38,000. I live on a train most of the year and stay with my parents for free during my vacations, so I have no rent or utilities to pay other than a $50 a month internet fee…
I recently came across an awesome website called Consumerism Commentary. It was started by a guy named Luke where he essentially just kept logging his net worth as an accountability tool. After several years, it gained popularity and now he has several other people doing the same thing and several professionals who provide commentary on…