Recently I purchased “MEEB”* 10th ed. by Stein, Reynolds, et. al. I also bought two other textbooks “Building Structures” 2nd ed. and “Simplified Engineering for Architects and Builders” 10th ed. both by James Ambrose. My thinking has been if it will help me with an exam, I can buy it.
So I bought a used car for $11,900! (a54, how in the world did you go from some $70 books to a nearly $12 thousand dollar car?) I’ll try to keep my rationale simple and brief. I’m staying late at work to study. Going home, somebody picks me up from the bus stop. I’m disrupting them. I’m uncomfortable studying after work thinking I’m disrupting others. (I’m reading and I’m thinking I need to leave to be a little earlier.) So I bought a used car. Even on the weekends when I want to go read in the Borders cafe, sometimes there is a conflict with taking the only car. There’s more to it, but it’s my distracted “studying condition” that pushed it passed the limit.
“Mathematically” I could have made a better purchase. My raise, if I get one after getting licensed, will not likely match my car loan in one year. But if having the car helps me recapture a daily hour of study and I pass my remaining exams, I will consider the car purchase a good decision. And if I do get that raise, maybe I trade in my car for something sportier! (If I told you what I got, you’d tell me I need too!!!)
*Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings 10th ed. by Stein, Reynolds, et. al.
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