Thank. God. Gifs. Work. On. This. Website.
Anyway! Quick summary of the past six months. After a few weeks of crashing on couches and finding the cheapest Airbnbs in the entire city, I moved into an apartment the first week of March. In West Hollywood! I had always dreamed of living there. It was a two bedroom, two bathroom with a great view and I was just ecstatic to be settled.
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| Check out that sunset! |
A few days later I joined the dogwalking app, Zingy. It's basically Uber for dogwalking. Getting paid to spend time with dogs? That was the second dream, after living in West Hollywood. It seemed everything was going my way.
And in May I graduated from Johns Hopkins!
My third dream was to have my own place by my 22nd birthday on July 12th. The minute I made enough money with Zingy to afford my own place, I began ANOTHER housing search in LA. Housing searches in LA, if you don't know, are an emotionally exhausting and downright miserable quest. They involve obsessively checking Craigslist, looking out for scammers, and crying because you know someone in your building is paying half what you are just because they moved there ten years ago. But by the end of June I had signed a lease for a one bedroom apartment in Palms. Mission 3 got my very own place!
Maybe... a month after I moved into my dream apartment (minus a dishwasher and a pool), 95% of my Zingy work stopped. I had previously been working 40-50 hours a week doing promotion for them at farmers markets, office complexes, and malls, when suddenly they decided that that marketing technique wasn't working for them.
I'm technically back to square one with the job search, but this time I have a kickass apartment, six months marketing and dogwalking experience, and student loan payments! The possibilities are endless!
So if you enjoyed my haphazard summary of my first six months in LA, you will surely enjoy my random posts where I describe various adventures from my LA life, and anything else I might be inspired to write about!
