Snap Quick in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017

This morning I looked over my hours yesterday. It felt like I had worked a TON! So I added it all up. Over 7 hours of BILLABLE work! Awesome. Then my computer takes a shit and loses my billing statement. So I try to recreate it from memory. I hope it is right. It is as close as I can make it. I’m just always going to agonize on the specifics. Did my computer screw me out of .6 billable hours? Not that it is huge necessarily but… $18 can still buy enough that I don’t want it just gone.

Bosses are back in town. So… my hours for today are kaput. Not much to do. I do have a hearing. Kid keeps getting in trouble, keeps catching charges, keeps fucking up. The kid needs to straighten his life out. Stop doing drugs. Stop selling drugs. Stop running from his mom’s death by sleeping with whoever puts out. If this kid just… got himself right… he’d have a bright future. But try telling him that.

Ultimately… after a 7+ Billable hour day yesterday… my day today will be MOSTLY this unfortunate soul and a billable hour potential of AT MOST 3 hours total for the day.

That is my entire day.
When I don’t have clients, I get worried.
Especially when… it certainly sounds like a part of the “Are we keeping him on” that the partners are looking at… well, I make a base salary (that’s the $30k per year) but I have to earn it. Meaning… I need to have around 84 Billable Hours per month just to break even. First month I worked? 51 Hours. Second month I worked? 79 Hours. Thank God this month is 5 weeks because I’m already at 85.8 hours for this month. But… that isn’t going to help me at the end of the year. Still worried about that.