Because there is no personal finance instruction manual.

Remember that time I got a raise at work?

Like last week?

Well today I asked for more money.

AND I GOT IT.

Hell yeah baby!

Well, I got some of it. After thinking about my job and what I do at work and what they pay me I decided I was not being compensated fairly. There are a lot of reasons for this which I won’t go into but I came to the conclusion that though I had just gotten a 5% raise, I needed more to be compensated fairly.

I brought this up to my boss and today I had a meeting with the boss and CEO. We talked about my future at the company and they asked me what I wanted salary wise. So I asked for $8,000 more than I’m currently making.

I got half of that.

So basically I got a $4,000 per year raise after getting a previous raise a week ago. Also, they discussed actually giving me the full 8k I asked for in 3 months after they’ve brought in a few new clients. So basically I got a conditional yes to the 8k and a for sure yes to 4k more.

This is awesome! It will do a lot to help me out personally and it also makes me feel better at work to know I’m being compensated fairly and will continue to be in the future.

This whole experience reminds me – nothing gained, nothing earned. It was nerve wracking to go into the meeting to ask for more money after just getting a raise but if I had done nothing I would be missing out on four thousand dollars a year for doing the same amount of work! Amazing!

Thanks to all the personal finance bloggers out there who I read. I never would have done this a few years ago and it’s only through learning and reading your blogs that I worked up the courage and knowledge to do this. So thank YOU for blogging and to the reader who read my blog as well!

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