The Amateur Financier

Ah, another month has come and gone.  July was extraordinarily busy, with everything from family visits to graduate school trips taking up time.  Add in the fact that I’m still working, studying for said grad school, and helping around the house, and it was a very full month.

Of course, the advantage of all that running around is that the month went pretty quickly.  When it comes right down to it, I’d rather be too busy than not busy at all; in the latter case, time just seems to drag on and on, taking forever.  Like most adults, though, it’s been many a year since I had absolutely nothing to do; even when I wasn’t working, there was still housework, yard work, and other domestic tasks to keep me occupied.  I suppose it’s part of being an adult; the responsibility that comes along with being in control of your own life.

Speaking of responsibility, one of the biggest responsibilities we have as adults is to manage our own money.  (Like the way I tied it back to personal finance?)  On that note, let’s see where my finances stood at the beginning of the dog days of summer:

Not too much to report on the financial front.  My investments are moving upward (July was a pretty good month in that respect).  My debts would be going down, but I helped my fiancee get a used car by putting the down payment on my credit card and co-signing for her (she has a decent income, more than me right now, actually, but virtually no credit history; I’ll have to help her rectify that situation).  Thanks undoubtedly to the seemingly endless extensions (and my stint at Sanofi, however brief it was), I qualified for further unemployment benefits, so that helps to keep my finances in check.

All in all, not a bad month.

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