Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Tuesday’s Heavy Thought

Filthy Lucre

I’ve been doing some number crunching and the results are...discouraging.

I’ve looked at my current debt load and played it against potential earnings.  I’ve used historic earnings data, leavened with broader industry trends, as the core of my prediction models.  Then, not feeling quite down enough, I put all that against actuarial data: height and weight, lifestyle, hobbies, career, etc etc. 

I have determined that, barring some sort of ridiculous and unforeseeable windfall (and knowing that there’s no real-life equivalent of a “Community Chest” card coming my way), I will not live to see the day I’m out of debt.  From now until the day I die, I will be servicing debt.  Sure everyone has their own financial woe and worry to contend with.  I get that.  But I never put things in quite this perspective before, that I’ll be dead before I’m free. 

It’s sobering.  It’s heavy.  It’s Tuesday. 

And it’s Tuesday’s Heavy Thought.


Posted by GeekLethal on 07/25/06 at 09:07 AM
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