A week in....

Man there is so much to write and talk about! I am so excited in this next stage in my life! :) I have been at Kemp tech for a week now and it is awesome! The travelling, the learning, the car, the benefits, all of it is amazing.

I feel so privileged to be able to have this opportunity and I have to thank God on a daily basis for it. I am also now sticking to this program i have made for myself - gym in the morning and t25 after work and now stretching is going to be involved. But enough of that, what happened so far since I have been here?

1. Got my laptop today and it is a Dell XPS 13 with 16GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD with Windows 10 on it! Not bad - gotta get used to 10, but i hear its amazing, so we will see.. 
2. Did some translation finally for IOBit, and waiting for my free codes . 
3. Spotted an error with Mophie and got a discount code (awesome!)
4. Went to Bicester for my induction with Carl, my new manager, Guildford to meet Sam, one of the sales guys and going to Cirencester to meet Rob (another sales guy) and meet one of the distributors we used called Zycko; should be fun :) 
5. Wont get paid til end of Nov, but got my last pay coming from CDW Friday, so it is ok :) 

I can't help but say I am loving this :) Long may it continue :) 

Goals and a New Job!

So I was going to write this originally the other day, as I was travelling home from work, but the internet connection was a bit choppy, so I didn't do it. Now that I got some time, I wanted to get my thoughts down that has been happening since the last post and also update on what's been happening!

Recently, I have been thinking about a lot about personal finance and investing, as well as what the Bible says about both of those things - quite a bit actually! Which got me to thinking about budgeting, house savings, and maturing in life (I am actually getting maturer - that is funny to even imagine that!) And so when I put some time down for reading up on investing and getting to it, it will be exciting I am sure.

Pen testing has taken a back seat at the moment; well has been for a little while, since I focused on other things like job hunting; now that the job hunt is over, I can take it back up where I left off. As for the job hunt, I accepted Kemp's offer over Bluefort's and it was scary at first - as i said no to one that I already started getting to know, but Kemp is going to be better for me financially (a lot more so than BF) and the opportunities down the line. One thing I have learned is setting expectations of what I think is exciting and what actually needs to be done - so to that end, I have set goals for myself, and will add and modify as time goes on.

I have taken some advice from a good friend of mine at work, who advised on me certain things to do, such as:

1. Put money away into retirement - something I read about, and now I will do in my next job once I get a budget spreadsheet up and lock down my spending. 
2. Make sure to keep skilling up - knew this already but good to hear from someone else. 

Since this role will be based from Home, Naomi has already got plans for me to be the house-husband once again, and I am ok with it now - I have to step up and this is a good chance for that to happen - i also have to revitalize going to the gym and setting a routine up as well. So all of that is exciting for me. Working at home isn't for everyone, and I understand that; I like it, so I will see how it goes and keep the people that I built friendships with at CDW going. 

Today, I am going to go and look at some used cars for Kemp - I sort of have a figure in my head of how much i want to spend monthly, seeing as that I know how much it was to spend travelling to London daily. Getting a routine sorted will be the first challenge for me - but I know once I have that, everything will fall into place, as long as I follow the plans I will make for myself. 

I am also looking forward to being a parent - after being at the Snagg's and holding their little baby girl and just watching her, I felt more inclined to be a parent. It feels like the next step and it feels nice. 

So back to my goals - what are they for the next 3 years?

1. Straight white teeth - this I have already started by going to a free consultation and i will compare it to another one I am going to on Tuesday - i don't care about the cost or how long it will take; I just want it. 
2. To have a house deposit by end of September next year - this one will change because it was set on us living here based on the figures I have already - it will grow quicker when I put in some new numbers and when we live at the MIL's for a year or so.
3. To become more godly - this one is a daily one - taking time to study and pray - i will want to do that a lot more with this new role as i reflected on my current one. 
4. To have a decent net worth - need to find out my current one first - as to grow it; there are many ways, and I just did one of them, which is to change jobs to increase net salary.
5. to get lean and ripped - follows on from the routine I want to set as said above. 
6. to become an SME in the role to come- to that end, since I accepted Kemp's offer, i have learned a lot about load balancing as well as business basics. 
7. to become fluent in Japanese - this means I need to ramp up my learning and speaking now more often - so hellolingo will become more used in time. 

So yea, that is it for now - I am going to also be posting more posts, to make sure my thoughts don't get lost in my mind!

One more thing - we are planning on going back to Japan next year (when the flights are cheapest) and can't wait! ^^.