So its like three months since I've come back from Pakistan and hats like three months towards my target of accumulating sume mula for my wedding at the end of the year. So far I've managed to secure just one payment from a shabby freelance work which just about paid off one weeks of phone bills and letter postages. My bank accounst already reeling and contains just half a salary - and already I'm beginning to wonder how the hell am I gonna come up with the cash and stabilize my income to get wedded off in time for the wedding.
In the last post I pretty much chalked out a basic idea of how much it would cost to live on a decent basis as a couple in Ras Al Khaimah - note this pretty much applies just to Ras Al Khaimah and that too in exceptional cases as if you consier the expenditures in Dubai and Abu Dhabi - the rents alone would eat away at 155 percent of your earnings.
The good news is that after getting my DSL account all set up I've managed to net in a few good projects to work on so I guess my freelancing streak is about to kick off. The main aim right now is to ensure that I get paid on time and that projects come and get completed in quick succession. But at the same time I do now feel concerned on how far will freelancing take you - maybe I'm worrying too early for this but hey its worth thinking about right now that well its great for a quick buck, you learn lots of new things, make great contacts, your portfolio gets updated, you can work at your own pace and the best thing of all is that you get paid for it.
Hmmm maybe I'm worrying too much and for all the wrong reasons at teh wrong time - its no fun being a worry wart. Right now as I look at what I had initially thought of I might have to consider resetting my exorbitant ambitions and getting back to teh real world. Right now I have just 9 months in hand to make around atleast 30 000 Dirhams in cash. Ok it may not seem too much for those with five digit salaries but consider this that my salary is just 5000 and scratch 2000 which goes to support my folsk in Pakistan and 1500 of my personal spending if I really pinch my pennies. That leaves me with a surplus of 1500 which in nice montsh acucmulates to just a mere total of 13 500 dirhams. Not bad though but I still need to make 16 500 more on that. In 9 months that amounts to a rough average of around I would say 2000 a month surplus. Which is quite manageable provided I do get freelance jobs at that rate. That would account to like one portal
It really dawns upon me that i've seriously wasted a lot of time ever since I started work here - thats a whole lot of potential wasted in lazing and worrying for all the wrong reasons. Serves me right for taking work too easy. I remember running out of a great job around 3 to 4 years ago from Emirates Towers. The pay was excellanta for a beginner and plus it was a grea company however the reason I ran off was jut because it didnt suit my timings and my lazy self to work overtime. Now after having worked my rear end off at 12 hour timings I'm beginning to understand the follies of my ways - well enough complaining - the point remains is that now after learning how to survive on minimal food and a few hours of sleep - I've understood the idea of living to work. But hey its pays off... ok so the utter mindlessness of my rantings seem to imply I'm falling asleep so in that case I'll be signing off for now....
Sunday, February 01, 2009
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