Hello & welcome to the second Finance Friday post of the series! A little about the series: Finance Friday was started because often times in the arts finance and money are rarely discussed. While I can understand not wanting to compare salaries with coworkers, I personally think not talking about finance at all is CRAY. I want to start this series because money and finance can be so difficult to figure out and I wish I could have had some tips when I was first starting out.

Well it's been a minute. Since my last post I have graduated from James Madison University (I somehow managed to get a B in astronomy), did some traveling, accepted a year long job, and decided to reboot this blog. My contract for the summer has yet to start and needless to say I have been a little bored at home. The first two weeks post-grad I caught a bug (perhaps from sitting in the pouring rain for graduation) and was pretty much down for the count. Luckily my antibiotics