Checking my account balance online today did sort of make me a little worried, especially given current circumstances and upcoming things to pay for. As such, finding more money will be a tough job…

My current source of income, and some of you may already know from some previous rant, comes from the State. It’s good and all, but I would like to have a decent job to earn more (well technically I’d still earn the same amount because the DA goes down as my salary goes up). Of course, it doesn’t help when there is a lack of jobs and unemployment is on the up. Still, I think I do work hard enough trying to find a job to earn my handout…

Although, with half of my weekly income going straight into a savings account, so that I can pay the huge lump sums for on-campus accommodation, and the monthly credit card payments (I pay it off in full every month), on top of daily expenses, doesn’t leave much for much else…

Finding more money is harder and harder. With rising web hosting costs (up from $4.20 a month for just my blog, to $6.99 a month for blog and RPWS, since basic package only allowed one domain…), that means more expenses. Adding the Google ads to the RPWS site is a start, but it’s a very slow earner. Plus they don’t pay out until $100, which means that after about two years total of ads, I’m still only 40% of the way there…

Plus, I still want to buy that monster gaming computer at some point. I’m trying to keep the cost down, and although at times it seems to be dropping in price, it actually turns out they’ve just discontinued one of the parts and haven’t told me… Main problems are the fact they only take credit cards, which stems to my low credit limit, and the fact I pay off all at once. A bank loan has been considered, but would I get one, and also how much more of my cash has to be put aside to pay for it each month?

Which brings me to the conclusion, and really the whole point of this. I know I’ve said before I didn’t really want to advertise on my site, but do you really think I should? I could replace Baby Bear’s little peeking spot with a small Adsense thingy… Might not be as noticeable or as big, but it might get a bit of income from pageviews and clicks… ~200 pageviews a day would earn something, right?