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<blockquote data-quote="hondo" data-source="post: 2108521" data-attributes="member: 8661"><p>You need to start figuring out the 'cost of living' in your area, or someplace else you'd like to live/work. Starting out at UPS PT, and another PT job, let's say you can take home (net, after deductions) $800-1,000/month. Can you find an apartment for $4-500/month? Maybe, but it will probably take a lot of hunting (and luck). Especially being young, you might have trouble finding someone willing to rent to you. What about transportation? You're probably going to need a car. Assuming you can buy a decent used car outright, between gas & insurance you can expect that to cost you at least $60/week. Probably better if you could budget $75/week to cover maintenance/minor repairs/registration. That's $650-800/month in expenses so far. So between $0 & $350 left. Does that apartment come with heat, electricity, water? Your phone bill? Then there's food and clothes/laundry (working as a package handler can be very rough on your clothes, especially the entry jobs). Plus the mandatory health insurance (or penalty)(for most of the country PT don't get benefits for the first year).</p><p></p><p>Something else to consider is how flexible the other job will be with scheduling. Peak season at UPS runs from about Thanksgiving to the first or second week of January. You could easily put in 40+ hours/week then (despite your PT status). You're going to want to work as many hours there as you can, since in most locations 15 of those hours would be time-and-a-half.</p><p></p><p>TL,DR: 10-15 years ago, you could probably afford your own place with 2 PT jobs. 20 years ago you could have afforded it with just a UPS PT job. Today, it's going to be rough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hondo, post: 2108521, member: 8661"] You need to start figuring out the 'cost of living' in your area, or someplace else you'd like to live/work. Starting out at UPS PT, and another PT job, let's say you can take home (net, after deductions) $800-1,000/month. Can you find an apartment for $4-500/month? Maybe, but it will probably take a lot of hunting (and luck). Especially being young, you might have trouble finding someone willing to rent to you. What about transportation? You're probably going to need a car. Assuming you can buy a decent used car outright, between gas & insurance you can expect that to cost you at least $60/week. Probably better if you could budget $75/week to cover maintenance/minor repairs/registration. That's $650-800/month in expenses so far. So between $0 & $350 left. Does that apartment come with heat, electricity, water? Your phone bill? Then there's food and clothes/laundry (working as a package handler can be very rough on your clothes, especially the entry jobs). Plus the mandatory health insurance (or penalty)(for most of the country PT don't get benefits for the first year). Something else to consider is how flexible the other job will be with scheduling. Peak season at UPS runs from about Thanksgiving to the first or second week of January. You could easily put in 40+ hours/week then (despite your PT status). You're going to want to work as many hours there as you can, since in most locations 15 of those hours would be time-and-a-half. TL,DR: 10-15 years ago, you could probably afford your own place with 2 PT jobs. 20 years ago you could have afforded it with just a UPS PT job. Today, it's going to be rough. [/QUOTE]
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