Bump.

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Well.

Got a nice, completely unexpected raise at work today. Going from $76K to $80K. As a percentage of my salary it's not that much, but given that I wasn't expecting anything it was nice. It is basically a $2/hour raise though, which I would have been ecstatic for at my last, corporate, stingy-ass job. It'll probably mean an extra maybe hundy per check, won't know til it kicks in in May. For a startup that has to be careful with funds it's great and appreciated.

I also am apparently a superstar in the company, which is even more valuable, possibly. I got the highest raise rating in the system they've implemented, meaning I literally couldn't have gotten a bigger raise. And got a great pep talk from my notoriously hard to read direct boss.

The company's also doing well, we could probably be selling 4 times what we can actually produce right now. Once we get the supply chain and the team built out it may be a rocket ship with more money and stock flowing in the coming years. Not sure yet where I fit in all that, but at least at this point I'm doing about all I can so that feels good, and validates the choice I made leaving a cush job (that I hated) to come here.

What does it all mean for the Vegas part of my life? Probably not much, my save regimen is already pretty easy and I always feel like I have enough when I go to town. Will this make me spend more? Probably not, but it will be good to have another couple hundred a month going toward the general money save cushion.

Yay me.

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