Originally posted by Z_Fan
Uhm, not only is this the best financial advice in this thread, it's the best bit of general life advice - period.
I've been hearing a lot of this lately. I've been paying close attention as well.
Anyway OP, I may have missed this - Does your job contribute anything?
I got 12% RRSP Unmatched from the company. This is great because it still dumps a big amount into a "retirement" spot and then I have my own cash to do stuff with.
Maybe instead of a next raise ask for something like that, I don't know.
You can get a lot more from a company then just dollars/hr if you ask!
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."
-H.P. Lovecraft