Gotta love the end of the month. 
The end of the month is when we do an all-out rush to meet our revenue targets. We’ll definitely make our target for this month, but to be profitable, we need to make a bit over that. To clear all the hurdles before midnight June 30, we’re going to need a lot of customers to pay. I think we’ll make it, but I’m going to have to make a lot of phone calls between now and then. 
Since my personal financial situation was bothering me, and since Simpli should free up some cash in the next month or two due to several cost-cutting measures (none of which will adversely affect our customers), I decided to give myself a raise starting 8/1. This will make Simpli less of a burden and more of a fun job. Besides, as someone pointed out at the lunch meeting I went to yesterday, all my debt should be encapsulated at Simpli, so in case the company fails, I don’t have a lot of personal debt that I need to pay off as well. That’s a valid point; although I don’t see Simpli failing, I still shouldn’t strap myself into a lot of credit card debt, and the salary raise will help me pay off my personal credit card debt more quickly. With that and a new roommate, I should have ALL my credit card debt, including the stuff at very low interest rates, paid off before the end of the year. Then I can start accumulating money on the upside. That’d be nice.
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28. June 2005 at 9:41 am
Isn’t that feeling of relief absolutely incredible? I’m searching for the very same relief, and hopefully future plans should be able to fix that. Room mates are fun, aren’t they? I still say you should be very, very afraid.
Anyway, congrats on the much needed and sought after resolution!
28. June 2005 at 4:57 pm
ohh a room mate… well, yeah I knew you’d figure a way to make things work ^^ *huggles* I’m in the process of doing wome maintenece on my main system making a /. entry on it as we speak ^^;
30. June 2005 at 1:15 am
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Joe
30. June 2005 at 11:31 pm
Erica,
We were in debt once too, we all gave ourselves raises, even our outsourced talent. We left graham poor though, only as a salute of gratitude. Free economy rules society.
Joe