Okay, to update everyone now that I can explain the numbers better...

[wolfwings]

I'm not making enough at this job to pay rent and the requisite weekly food money (let alone utilities). Since we have one person doing all the shopping and I patently do eat twice what anyone else here does, I can't save money by doing my own shopping for extra-cheap stuff, despite having a CostCo membership. The person in charge of shopping for the household doesn't want to deal with the extra hastle of seperating out mass-purchased stuff, or dealing with larger quantities. Hell, they buy 10 half-gallon's of milk a week at Trader Joe's, instead of just buying 5 gallons for half the price, because the half-gallons fit better in the fridge, apparently.

To wit:

I get $8/hour, 20 hours a week.
Utilities are an unknown currently for me.
Food is $90/week for me.
Rent is $360/month.

That comes to:
$4680/year for food, for me, at $90/week.
$4320/year for rent, for me, at $360/month.
$9000/year total for food and rent, plus utilities still.

I only make $8320/year, at $160/week, before taxes. Even if I got the raise to $9/hour, that would only be $9360/year to survive on, and both of those figures are, again, before taxes. Take those out, I make significantly less, again well under $9k/year for food and rent here, let alone utilities which I've ignored for the time being.

And no, I don't think I can go back to the PS. =-.-= They've wanted me (not me specifically, but the 'slot' I occupied at that house, it was simply too crowded) out of there for ages now, and now that I've finally been gone... I don't think I'll be able to go back. That slot, such as it was, no longer exists to be filled by anyone, let alone me.

In a few weeks, I'll have a car through my Dad... but I have this wonderfully narrow gap in the middle I have to squeeze through where I don't appear to have a roof over my head, or food to eat, or a place to store anything I currently own, before I have a vehicle that would let me feasably get a job, or even just do computer-work for people ad-hoc in the valley up here, which would be quite ideal for me, to be honest.

I'm starting to look around for alternatives, but it's looking like most of my possessions will still end up a casualty in all this, unless I can find crash space for me and several boxes of stuff for an indeterminate amount of time until I have the car where at least I can keep everything.

I'm going to sit down with my new landlord/boss combo, and try to figure things out better as to where I stand, and what my options are here, since paying rent this month simply isn't going to happen, unfortunately. =-.-=

Comments

[katvixen.livejournal.com]

it seems taht you may want to see if you can cut down on food costs. you may want to see if you can find a ride to the store so you can stock up on ramin and mac and cheese at a cheeper then 90 a week. sence the job is in the same house you can cut out fast food.

i strongly sugest you talk to your boss... and tell her that the rent is over 1/3 of your income. making it harder to afford living there.

when sy gets back from his trip you may want to talk to him about your old job.

where to stay is beond me. i'm sorry i can't give you any help there.

---- rember
your new boss is not verry leaneint.. however MJ may beable to hire you to help him and make a few extra buks here and there. he is relly good at helping people make a few extra buks.. (the old fashion way)

[alohawolf.livejournal.com]

There are Limits as to what an Employer can Charge for Room and Board According to the Labor Law for California.. check it out.. I have a feeling 90 bucks a week is more then she is allowed to Charge

Robert

Simple math, Robert.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Everyone else at the house is being charged $45/week for food.
I patently can and do eat twice what everyone else does.

If this is in regards to rent... I'm renting completely seperately from my employment. I'm actually (technically) renting from her husband, who only does part-time small jobs for the company, so I doubt it falls under the category of room and board.

But actually, right now, my R&B is roughly $180/week. That's almost as expensive as staying in a weekly hotel, I've realized, though the hotel wouldn't cover meals.

Part time..

[lionman.livejournal.com]

Since you're only putting in, ..well, you're only getting paid for 20 hours a week, are there another 20 hours that you could put in doing a part-time job as a stockman somewhere, like Costco, Sams, Walmart, the local grocery store, etc?