Ouch
Jeepers but New York is expensive. I’ve been digging at housing and it’s staggering. The best scenario I can estimate at this point is a small one bedroom apartment with an hour and a half round-trip commute for $1,000/month. Minus rent and student loans, the top pay at the synagogue job would leave me with about $1,000 a month to live on. And in New York City, that’s not much money! And all of that with a 9.5 hour work day counting the commute. Ugh.
This has got me seriously considering shifting tracks. If there was any way to find a job in a much smaller town, I think I’d rather put 2/3 of that money into a small house somewhere that’s a 15 minute commute. I guess I’ll just have to see what turns up.