Congratulations to me
I got the job.
My two bosses called me into an office and let me know that they want to hire me. I had to be straightforward about how I probably wouldn't want to do this much longer than a year, but I'd love to work for this organization and hopefully I'll do a good enough job that they might see a place for me here, a year from now.
So, as luck would have it: I now have a job to afford the new car. It will be a vicious cycle of maintaining a job to own a car to drive me to my job, but it will be a vicious cycle in a pretty new hybrid.
To maintain my sanity, I'm going to look into taking a writing class with my tuition reimbursement. Just one. It will be nice and not too much pressure. I can apply to take classes 90 days from when I start. That way, hopefully this place won't suck my soul out.
Can you buy a car in one weekend? That's the way I'd like to do it... Just go in and do it. That's really my style. But I've never bought a car before so I think I have to do some research.
How do you feel about leasing? You never told me.
I got the job.
My two bosses called me into an office and let me know that they want to hire me. I had to be straightforward about how I probably wouldn't want to do this much longer than a year, but I'd love to work for this organization and hopefully I'll do a good enough job that they might see a place for me here, a year from now.
So, as luck would have it: I now have a job to afford the new car. It will be a vicious cycle of maintaining a job to own a car to drive me to my job, but it will be a vicious cycle in a pretty new hybrid.
To maintain my sanity, I'm going to look into taking a writing class with my tuition reimbursement. Just one. It will be nice and not too much pressure. I can apply to take classes 90 days from when I start. That way, hopefully this place won't suck my soul out.
Can you buy a car in one weekend? That's the way I'd like to do it... Just go in and do it. That's really my style. But I've never bought a car before so I think I have to do some research.
How do you feel about leasing? You never told me.
posted by j-e-s-s-i-c-a at 1:17 PM
5 Comments:
Leasing is ok provided you KNOW you won't go over the 12k or 15k or whatever number of annual miles you're alloted, and you KNOW you'll be able to maintain it in a way that the car won't suffer anything other than normal wear and tear over the life of your lease. The problem is when you start thinking of a leased car as something you own and you begin to treat it harshly only to find out upon termination of your lease that they're going to nickel and dime you to the point that it would be cheaper to just go with the payoff and take ownership of the car. What hurts is that the payoff is almost always well over $5,000, you'd have to come up with a lump sum payment or you'd really get screwed, and the car won't have enough value when this all goes down (although a hybrid Civic may hold its value better than some other cars).
My suggestion (as a strange voice whispering from the ether) is that if you can afford it and can get a really nice interest rate (like around 4% or so), buy rather than lease. You'll have a car you love, you won't get neurotic over any little thing that happens to it, and your eyes won't be glued to the odometer to make sure you're not going over your mileage limit.
Oh, and take a man with you who has dealt with car dealers before. Seriously.
Good luck.
DaB
Thanks DaB.
It's funny, I just came to that conclusion last night. About how I didn't want to have to be worried about mileage and that in the end, I want to own this pretty little thing I paid so much money for.
It's funny what you said about bringing a "man" though. Because my mother was the one who always handled the car dealers. I guess, I'd like to think that's because you understand how unfortunately, car dealers can sometimes be very sexist...anyway, that what I'd like to believe.
So I guess it is a little late to persuade you to buy rather than lease... but I agree with everything DaB said.
As far as buying a car in one weekend, it is entirely possible. I bought my new car at 4pm on a Sunday. The hybrid might hold you up. A lot of dealers don't keep them in stock so your only option there would be to order it. Doesn't mean you can't get all the paper work out of the way but it will definitely hold up the process. My stepdad has a Civic hybrid so if you want some info I would be glad to ask him for you.
Oh, and don't just go into a dealership with a man. Go in with a man who knows what he is doing. My brother was a great help for me. You wanna borrow my brother?
*looks up* Uh, that was me by the way.
Fate's Fool
Hey Thanks, too!
My brother was going to go with me. He's really proud to help out with stuff like that. I can't imagine him being very persuasive or anything...but he likes it a lot. It might be neat to see him in that atmosphere, anyway.
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