Lewd Life Update, March 2, 2017

I was going to wait until the end of this week to make this announcement, but I'll just go ahead and spill the beans now.

I have a job. It's Data Entry and I make $14/hour. I didn't really tell anyone about this outside of my Discord, because it all happened really fast--I applied to the job two weeks ago, replied to an email response a couple days later, was scheduled for an interview last Tuesday that lasted 15 minutes, was hired last Thursday (one week ago today), and started on Monday. That it happened so fast made me a bit skeptical of the position and/or the company (plus their online presence is kinda non-existent, really sucked trying to find info on them) but nearing the end of my first week I think it's legit.

Data Entry is really boring, though. Even though it's only been four days of work, I've thought a lot about how this sucks and how I probably should've stuck with teaching or searched for better jobs or something. At least with teaching I have fun at times and can feel like I'm helping people out directly, and can impart knowledge and whatnot to my students. But data entry is mindless. Oh well, it's a job, I'm making money for the first time in ten months, and this is only temporary anyway.

This new job is why my week streams, if they are to continue existing, are going to be much later, and shorter, than normal. I work 10am-5pm EST, and the commute home sucks because rush hour traffic out of downtown, so I get home around 6pm. Depending on whether I eat or not, streams would start around 6:30pm. If I want a good night's sleep, I can't really stream for longer than a few hours. That means no FF13 speedruns. I can still do FF13 practice though, or FF13-2 speedruns. FF13 runs will have to be saved for the weekend now, though.

What does this mean for FF relay and RPGLB? I should still be able to partake in those events. My RPGLB run is Saturday mid-day anyway, so if worse came to worst, I would be in Utah for one day lol. I already booked my flight though, so hopefully they give me the week off (I haven't talked to my employer about it, but I don't see any reason why I wouldn't be able to take the week off; I'd probably lose my pay that week, but oh well). My FF relay run I *think* would happen sometime on Sunday, but if worse came to worst I'd take Monday off. I still want to raise money for my RPGLB, though. My employment is currently serving to pay off my credit cards and provide some cushion for my student loan payments (which to this point were going toward credit cards), but since my week off would most likely be unpaid, I would appreciate being able to raise the $700 I quoted for the airplane tickets, hotel room fees, attendance fee, and miscellaneous costs along the way. If you don't want to throw money at someone who is employed, though, I'd understand.

What does this mean for getting Twitch partner? Unfortunately I feel like that dream is dead. To be honest this caused a bit of depression earlier this week. I really would like to be Twitch partner, for there to be a Subscribe button on my screen, for my emotes to be able to be used globally, to obviously make money from ads and subscriptions... but I will not have the energy to be able to work full-time in conjunction with the near-daily streams I'd need to do to have a *chance* at partner. My recent partner application failed, unsurprisingly so, and my viewer counts, while sometimes nice, aren't always nice. So I will just remain jealous at each new streamer who is awarded partner, while now being completely unable to do something about it.