Extra-Curricular Activities, and Economics

So this last week I picked up a transcribing job.  It's from someone I've previously worked with (yay for returning clients!) and her audio's are always pretty good quality.  Though, I gotta say, typing conversations that last just over 6 hours can be quite intensive.

Still, they're paying for my car payment this month, so there's that :).  Also... the car is new (well, to me, anyway)!  I'm not sure how I forgot to mention that, previously.  I bought it back in January.  It's a cute little car, though I'm not particularly big on it being silver.  I don't have anything against the color - it's normally one of my favorites - but soon after buying it, I went to a parking lot, where every other car is silver, black, or some variation on those two.  A little silver car fades right into the background.  I've recently seen some bright pink cars, and I bet those don't get lost as easily.

It's technically used, though only with 6000 miles on it.  I really wonder what the story is behind it being available for me to buy it.  Who sells a car that's practically brand new?  (Although, perhaps my viewpoint is a bit skewed, as my last car had 180,000 miles on it.)

It's also given me my first official loan in my life.  Which is... kind of wild.  I'm not a big fan of having loans, but it's such a necessity - an absurd one, in my opinion, but apparently, unless you've shown that you previously couldn't afford something, you'll have a very hard time purchasing something else you can't afford.  Which really, really, really sounds weird.  And ridiculous.

(This is (part of) why I'm not an economist.)

In my case, I'm using a car loan that's fairly easy to pay off so I can (hopefully) purchase a house in the future.  Someday. :)