The completely unfiltered diary of a 23-year-old (week 58)
It’s a long weekend, and a short 3-day work week.
I haven’t met any friend this weekend at all. Gosh. That’s kinda sad. But I feel fine. Just kind of at a loss about what to do with my time.
I watched a bunch of backpacking videos yesterday. Torres del paine looks amazing and it would be cool to go there — but flights to South America are looking extremely expensive. On the bright side, I actually have an income now and money really isn’t as tight as it used to be.
That said, so many of these Youtubers are like, oh, this hostel is really cheap, this certain product is really cheap, it’s just 50 bucks.
Damn son. 50 USD is still a lotta money. I guess I really have to get over that mental hurdle of spending money. If you allocate say $3k to a month-long trip, then yeah, those 50 bucks are definitely within budget. Though…it would be nice to spend less than that. Lol.
I’ve even been thinking about randomly camping to save on accommodation. Not that I’ve really done that before (at least, not alone). And hell, camping gear is expensive too (though if you consider a few hundred bucks as an investment, it really isn’t too much in the grander scheme of things.)
Says the person who is also considering going for teeth whitening at the dentist, which would cost at least 400 bucks. Out of sheer vanity.
Oh dear.
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Oops, this post is a day late.
I spent yesterday night (and the night before) thinking of questions to ask my mentor at work. I’m really hoping to get some insights to getting promoted and career planning in general.
(More about my mentor here and here. Things have changed since the first meeting (mostly just me being less paranoid), and I really hope I’m right about him being nice. And if not, well, I don’t think anything bad will happen either. It’s just weird, I feel like I’m excessively on edge because I don’t know what to expect from people in a professional workplace.)
Spent last night writing a three-liner email for my mentor so I’d be ready to send it this morning.
Spent half an hour this morning re-reading those three lines and trying not to psych myself out of sending the email.
Finally sent the email and spent the next three hours fretting until my mentor replied.
What a great use of time. Lol.
On the bright side, my mentor is so freaking accommodating. I’m so grateful. I hope the meeting goes well. It’s happening next Monday — and I really want to figure out if he thinks I can get a promotion.
Promotion cycle is coming soon, but I’m not sure if you should know your chances even before the cycle starts. Actually, I really don’t know much at all.
But at the same time, I want to ask him about work in general. Motivation, professional goals, etc. We’ll see how it goes! I guess there’s really only so much honesty a mentor can give too.
I think partly what triggered this was that I was originally okay with waiting till September to bug my boss about the raise again. But then, my brother asked me about it and introduced some doubt in me, saying that I should have some sensing about my chances of success. So now I need a reliable source to advise me about the situation. Because unfortunately, most of my friends don’t really know about this stuff.
Anyway, it’s good to keep up the relationship with a senior executive. Learn from them and all. Plus, I find it genuinely interesting to hear about what they do.
Also, this week was the first time I’d spent two evenings working overtime, to try to fix some dumb error we’d made. It was pretty annoying. And it got me thinking, what the heck, should I even be caring enough to work overtime to fix this? Not sure about that.
But anyway, it’s the end of the short week!
Fiverr side hustle has been doing fairly well. Which means I have some side hustle work to catch up on.
Alright. Time to enjoy the long weekend!
xo,
Amber
