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Good luck with the new job! I'm sure your 12% payrise is equivalent to 50% of my wage! :rolleyes: (3rd year apprentice!)

Well would you believe it! I just got a pay rise...so so so happy, things have been tight around the place but now things have just been made a whole lot easier :) A decent pay rise too, ~30% :) Motivation is up now lol

Would love to know what that feels like lol

I seem to make a low motivation comment on work here every page! lol. Very low at the moment, doing alot of work plus overtime and still getting paid very little which is my main problem. I thought I had been given a $80 pay rise a couple of weeks ago which was great, found out it was just for...

Motivation for my day to day job is a little low at the moment and it doesn't help that I am a apprentice and those wages aren't very inspiring at all! Though, it's only through this job that I have been able to secure our first place - not a bad effort (other students at tafe can't understand...

Only 18 months in and you are achieving pretty decent results so far. With our first property, we have a $290k debt and $18,200 income before expenses. Although, we didn't buy our first property thinking we would get into the property game...! Eventually, I would like to live off rental income...

Done......;)

Some interesting points you have there, I think I need to follow a few to get me on track and keep myself sane! At the moment I put away 10% of my weekly wage, but pay 50% into a loan of around 30k which we are chewing away at (Down from 40k in just over 7 months). Hoping to have it fully paid...

At the moment, trying to stay motivated in my day job is hard. I am on apprentice wages, which of course adds to the pain, but it's mostly the fact that I'm not doing the work I would love to be doing in Plumbing. Only 2 years to go though and I will be a Tradesman which helps to keep me going...