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 six years old and I’m a freelance digital event producer. I make $40/hour and generally work about 16-20 hours a week. I’m still living at my dad’s house. I am so not sad to say good-bye to this year. Spending & Saving This has been another weird month where my net…
So over the last few weeks, we looked at budgets and the some tips behind spending less and earning more. I think of budgets as sort of a living thing that you have to experiment with a bit to find a system that really works for you. I’ll level with you. I don’t love budgets.…
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…
How often do you reevaluate your financial goals? Maybe I should start by asking, have you set some financial goals? Setting financial goals is honestly one of the biggest reasons I’m doing so ok. Name it and claim it, right? (Goal setting wise – not theology wise, prosperity gospels are nonsense.) But for real, the…
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…
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…
Folks, I have tried a lot of different tactics to get my financial life in order, some with little difficulty but big payouts (like setting up a budget at the beginning or continually tracking my net worth), others with questionable payouts (no spend months, buying meat in dollar stores, mystery shopping). At the end of the…
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…
Profile I am thirty three 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…
Profile I am thirty three 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…
Profile I am 33 years old and the Performance Director at Big Apple Circus. I make $70,000 a year and live in a show provided RV. They also feed me. Saving & Spending This was an odd month. The odd month started last month when a choreographer I worked with last year posted that she…
Profile I am thirty three years old and I am a Stage Manager at Sleep No More in New York City. I make $115/show and work 7-8 shows a week. I also work very part time at The Ride – a ridiculous tourist trap bus in Times Square that’s actually pretty fun. Saving & Spending…
Profile I am thirty-two years old and I am a Stage Manager at Sleep No More in New York City. My contract just extended through January. I make $115/show and work 7-8 shows a week. Saving & Spending So on the plus side, life does not feel like I’m on a runaway roller coaster anymore.…
Profile I am thirty two years old and I started out this month as the Assistant Stage Manager/Props for Susannah with Opera Roanoke and finished it out as a Stage Manager at Sleep No More in New York City. I’m on contract there through the end of August. I make $115/show and work 7-8 shows…
Profile I am thirty two years old and I started out this month as the Production Stage Manager of Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical. I am now the Assistant Stage Manager/Props Master for Susannah with Opera Roanoke, a regional opera company in Roanoke, Virginia. At the end of this show, I’ll receive a $1,000…
Profile I am thirty two years old and I am the Production Stage Manager for Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical at the Southeastern Summer Theatre Institute. I make $400 per week with no per diem. I also only started this gig at the end of the month, so for the rest of March we can…
Profile I am thirty two years old and I’m unemployed. It’s cool though. Well… no it’s not. But I’m surviving. Saving & Spending 2017 might be cursed. I’m not sure yet. For the first time in my career, a job got cancelled at the last minute. And by last minute I mean, like… less than…
Profile I am thirty two years old and I was the Production Stage Manager for the national tour of FAME until the middle of this month. I made $700 per week and a $300 weekly stipend, though the job ended a little less than 3 weeks into the month. I start my next gig the…
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…
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. Saving & Spending This month man. I don’t even know. This was the hardest month of work I’ve ever done. We did three weeks straight…
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. Saving & Spending September might be trying to kill me. Or this tour is – as I type this going into day 7 of 16-20…
Profile I am thirty two years old and I am the Production Stage Manager for the national tour of FAME. We’re currently in rehearsals, which is paid out as a stipend in two payments in September ($2,000 each payment) and once we actually hit the road, I’ll make $700 a week and get a $300…
Profile I am thirty two years old and I am the Stage Manager for Into the Woods JR at a regional theater in Virginia. I make $375 a week, which comes out to $317.16 after taxes, and I’m staying in theater provided housing for free. This gig is five weeks long and ends the first…
When you poke around the internet trying to find side hustles to bring in a little extra money, one of the top hits you’ll find is advice to start a blog. This is probably because you are actually reading someone’s blog, so they’ve actually done it and are speaking from experience. Blogging can be a…