 Well hello everybody and welcome back to my channel. I am in my disheveled apartment still but by the time you guys see this I will already be moved. I was going to be filming a favorites for September but honestly I have been in such a different mode. I really don't have any favorites so this video is kind of a favorites fail. However I did want to talk about my upcoming plans. As you all know if you're subscribed to my channel and watch my Monday plan with me's I am moving obviously. I already said that. But anyway I wanted to address some of the questions that I've been getting in the comments. First most commonly asked question is why was I laid off from my job? You would have to ask my old company honestly. I know numbers were down and things like that but I don't really have a good answer for you and I'm not going to speculate especially on camera. So I have my theories but I'm going to keep my theories to myself and be a good person. So yeah I mean I'm not really sure but you know what all I can do is have a positive attitude and move on with my life and I wish them well. I hope that they figure out their financial situation and I really just hope that they don't have to do this to anybody else honestly. That's my true hope for that company and I really care about everybody that works there and I really hope that they figure out whatever situation that they're in and they just don't have to lay anybody else off because it just really really sucks. One kind of dicey thing that I did have to deal with. As you guys know if you watch the plan with me videos I did sign a brand new lease in Fargo. So I already had put in the notice to leave this apartment and I had signed a year lease for another apartment. So unfortunately they legally wanted to hold me to that. I was however able to get out of that lease which was like super super amazing because I'm like I don't have any money. I don't know what you want me to do. So I kind of went back and forth with the property manager and the properties manager's boss. I don't even know has even talked to him about it. I don't know but he did end up writing me an email stating that he was relinquishing me from all like any other financial obligation to his company which was amazing and I just felt like so free when that phone call and that email came through. So at least I won't be financially obligated to that so that is nice. So that being said this upcoming Sunday which I believe you're going to see this the Wednesday after I move. I'm not sure when I'm going to like clip this and put it together but it will be after I move. I am going to be moving to Cambridge Minnesota. My parents actually have a summer place there and they're only there for half the year and actually my mom's going to leave I think Wednesday or Thursday. My dad already went back to Florida but then I have the place to myself until they come back. So what my plan is is that I'm going to stay there in the meantime and I'm going to look for jobs in the cities. I did however look for jobs for a few weeks here in Fargo kind of debated if I wanted to like stay here but honestly the market isn't that great for jobs and I feel like I was looking at things I was qualified for and I just wouldn't be making as much money which is kind of odd because it costs more to live in Fargo, North Dakota than it does in like the Minneapolis, St. Paul area just depending on where you are. So it's just kind of odd but I don't know. I think I have a lot more opportunity there as well in the cities so I'm just going to go with the cities. I have lots more friends and I have some extended family members that still live there so so yeah I mean I think that's the right place for me. Honestly I've addressed this a few times in videos that I really don't want to be in Fargo for my whole life. I don't want to be in a place I feel uncomfortable in and I've always felt like a very distinct uneasy feeling while I've been here. Not that anything is wrong with Fargo. It's just that it doesn't feel like home and really the cities doesn't feel like home either if I'm being completely honest. Nothing feels like home any longer. Everything is very displaced. My parents live in Florida. They're in Minnesota kind of. They sold our childhood home when they moved to Florida which was fine. My brother moved to Virginia. Then he moved to Virginia to Florida and then Florida to California so it just feels different I guess but being in the Fargo Moorhead community I've just never, I've never, number one I've never made any good friends at all. I mean I've made friends and acquaintances but no one I would like call on a Saturday night and ask them what they were doing and that's my own fault. I completely agree however being 35, being unmarried and having no children you kind of get looked at like what's wrong with you and you get that in all the markets and don't get me wrong but I have nothing in common with a lot of the other people my age unless I want to hang out with college students you know we really don't have much in common so again I just have never really felt like I fit in here and that's okay but you know and then I kind of had to ask myself do I want to stay in a job market that will probably pay me a little bit less and be in a place I don't want to be and really the resounding answer was no I don't want to be here so I made the decision to move back to Minnesota where I will probably be getting a similar dollar amount to what I was making before like per hour or salary or whatever then I'll be with all of my other friends that I know and I've known for many years and feel more comfortable I feel more accepted I guess in the cities so that is what's happening with me um as for what I'm looking for for a job I know a lot of you guys have asked the questions in the comments below especially on my plan with me videos kind of what I'm looking for so um I love doing the things that people don't like doing so I love like logistics I love scheduling I love offices and organization and like assisting like I love being an assistant to somebody like I love doing that I love running offices like I don't know it's just like totally my jam so I don't know I'm kind of looking for something in that realm I don't really know what it is but um I'm not super into like I worked for a natural stone company before it doesn't need to be natural stone it could be something totally different we could sell office supplies or we could sell vehicles or we could sell construction equipment it doesn't really matter um I just you know love running an office I think it's really fun so yeah who knows what the world has to offer in that respect also I'm going to say this a million times if you've watched the plan with me videos you know that I have been doing uh like unemployment online um because it was a layoff and it was none of my own doing um I wasn't doing anything wrong it was just the company was slow and couldn't keep me on any longer and I was an at-will employee I wasn't a contracted employee so they were not legally obligated to keep me on for any reason so um every Sunday the way that the North Dakota one works is that you have to go on every Sunday and just fill out the form and say that you're looking for work and put in all the places that you've looked for work that week or at least four of them you have to write in four even if you've looked for more it doesn't really matter and then yeah so it's good to go but I am changing my residency from North Dakota to Minnesota but it won't change my actual unemployment claim because I was employed in the state of North Dakota so I'm going to do some other work on the back end of that but I'm really not too concerned about it and um I'm just going to keep on trucking and looking at places in Minnesota and hope it all works out I'm sure it will so the other question I've gotten a lot is how long are you planning on staying at your parents place and honestly because they're not there I don't really see a huge time restraint on that so I think it just depends so once I actually find employment somewhere and I'm feeling comfortable there I will eventually start looking for renting a place of my own getting my own apartment renting my own town home maybe even buying a home I'm not really sure what kind of financial state I'll be in at that point but I will tell you I am going to wait a couple of months after I find employment to find a place to live the reason I'm going to do that is because I am actually living a little bit farther out of the cities um while I'm at my parents place so I mean yes there's more time in the vehicle but I'm not really that concerned about that process I would rather like waste my time in the car if you will rather than just trying to find a place and then that job doesn't work out or I don't really like it or something like that so there's just a ton of places in the cities and I probably wouldn't be like in like Minneapolis St. Paul like proper I would be probably like around the cities in some of the suburbs or something like that I mean even if I were to work in the city like the actual city city I probably wouldn't live in the city because you can find a little bit of a cheaper rent somewhere else in the suburbs another question that I got quite a bit not online but like in person like the people that I know or people that I've actually like conversed with since is how do you feel about this and that's actually a really like interesting question and I mean I don't really know how I feel like I mean I know how I feel but I feel like I should feel like more angry and more upset and more like mad about it but I'm really not like I think I would be more upset if there was something that I did that was wrong I think that's what would make me mad is that I'd be mad with myself but I really don't have anyone to be mad at um you know I'm not big on holding grudges I just what's the point I mean what is the point and I've actually explained this to a co-worker of mine we were having a chat about everything and I said you know what me being upset is doing nothing besides making me upset it's not going to help the situation it's not going to make this better it's going to actually make it worse so I just kind of go in with that attitude of like you know the only person I'm hurting is myself if I get angry upset about it yeah was it shocking oh for sure for sure but you know what it's like all right well I'm dealt with a challenge and I can either be upset about it or I can be positive and try to move on because negativity breeds negativity and positivity breeds positivity so you know you can just try to put a positive spin on it and just live your life to the best of your ability and just call it a day and I'm also not a person that really gets upset too often anyways about much um it takes a lot to get me like really riled up um I'm definitely a theoretical thinker where I want to think through the problem um to just say okay well what can I do for you now to make this better I actually had this challenge this weekend at my second job at my part-time job and really the answer was nothing I couldn't do anything at that point physically I could not do anything because my hands were tied I had nothing I could provide this person with to make them happy at that point and that's kind of how I think about life it's like you know what there's nothing that I can do to make you happier in this situation besides be positive and you know try to follow up and try to get the proper people to help you out but you know that's kind of how I think about this it's just like you know yes it sucks but it's also just like a new avenue to explore and just do something else so I feel like this is actually going to be like a really positive change and that's kind of the mindset I'm going to go with we're just going to kind of leave it at that and the last question I've gotten lots and lots of questions on online and in person is what are you going to do about money I know that's a really scary topic to talk about but I figured I would leave that as the last question that I'm going to answer in this video since I have no favorites for the month this month is not my favorite okay it's not my favorite but honestly I don't really have the money stress I probably would have had if this would have happened 12 months ago I started saving quite a bit of money at the beginning of this year as a goal to purchase a home at some point with my mathematical calculations of what I was able to on average save it would have taken me a couple of years to get a down payment and I wanted to do at least 20% down on a home in Fargo so I wanted to make sure that I had more than 20% down because there's like clothing costs and there's lots of other costs and fees and you know outfitting a place and just buying the furniture and just those little things that end up costing money that cost to move to hire movers to get a van or a truck or whatever you know so there's there's lots of extra money that goes out so that being said I had a goal for myself at the end of the year that I wanted to save a certain amount of money well I had already hit that goal by June so that was awesome that I had already hit my year goal in June and I had been able to save quite a bit so that's awesome so I actually am on the Dave Ramsey plan if you guys don't know about Dave Ramsey I will link his YouTube channel below he has a radio show that I think is syndicated I'm not really sure I know you can listen to it on like podcasts and stuff but honestly I started doing his plan before I ever listened to him on the radio or watch his YouTube channel so I have been on the Dave Ramsey plan the baby steps so all the baby steps are actually step zero is getting current with all your bills which I am step one is putting a thousand dollars in a savings account you want to do that first before you do anything else step number two is paying down all of your debts smallest to largest so if you have a debt for a thousand and a debt for five thousand a debt for ten thousand you work on your thousand then you take all that money that once that debt's paid off you work on your five thousand and then you work on your ten if that makes sense just watch his channel like I said I'm a link it below and then step number three which is baby step three which is what I was working on was a fully funded three to six months emergency fund which I had already financed all of that plus some so I already have six months of living expenses in the bank and I feel very confident about that the reason that I chose six months for emergency fund is because I'm a single individual and I only rely on my own income some families elect to do just the three months because they have a dual income family or they have multiple streams of income so if one job were to go away they could kind of piggyback on another one it's just like whatever works for you but since I am the only one that actually earns an income in my household because it's just me and the dog and Doyle has still not gotten a job like I don't know what's wrong with him he's so freaking lazy but anyway I decided to go with a six month throw just to make me feel more comfortable and then above and beyond that I had also been saving for a house so that was my baby step three B if you will and I had already been maxing out some of my retirement so I was putting away I think like 11 percent of my income to retirement and all of that so I just feel secure I don't know how to explain it more than that without sounding like showy or something but I'm not really a showy person I mean I'm wearing a shirt right now it says keep Minnesota passive aggressive and then underneath that it says or not whatever you think is best so yeah I guess I'm not really a showy person with stuff I would rather have my money in the bank where I can see it it looks really pretty in there so yeah if I do need to dip into my savings I totally can but that's not the goal the goal is to find a job so hopefully fingers crossed send me all your good internet vibes give the video a thumbs up that's going to be good vibes for me I'm hoping I find a job my goal is to find a job that I really really love by the end of the year I know that that sounds like way far away but you know what sometimes jobs take a long time to find and sometimes people are hiring but they're not hiring for right now they're hiring when someone is leaving in a month or in two months or in three months or whatever so what's that afford what that is affording me to do without having a traditional rent payment and things like that is that I can be a little bit more picky and choosy about where I want to be working next definitely I'm going to be doing my research on all the companies that I'm going to be looking at if you guys have any suggestions on places to look in the Minnesota area please let me know like I said before I'm going to be looking around the Minneapolis St. Paul area so you know something hit me up send me an email all my links will be below so I wanted to end on that question because that is probably my most commonly asked question for whatever reason but I hope you guys enjoyed this favorites fail video slash pretty much like a life update video um if you have any questions feel free to post them below and I will get back to you guys and don't worry YouTube is staying the same I'm not going away I'm still gonna be posting every Monday Wednesday and Friday the background will probably be a little bit different next time but you know we just gotta go 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