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Lucy Spinks (addingvalue) wrote in finnigans_rpg,

It took a second for Lucy to piece together what Rich was talking about - slightly alarmed when he started talking about charms and spells. When she mentally traced it back to the language issue, she nodded, and then he mentioned other people doing the spells and she relaxed. If she didn't have to do them herself it would be fine. Not ideal, she'd come to really relish her independence since leaving school and going back to a state where she needed people to do simple things for her would suck, frankly, but needs must.

"I'm still working for Variety until March 31st," she told him. "That's less notice than they really deserve, but it was their suggestion so I'm just going to get all the loose ends tied up and hand over to someone new." She hesitated a moment, considering whether she wanted to build a couple of days for herself into the switch over, but then decided not to bother. The Easter weekend would follow fairly quickly and she could sort out her own stuff then. "I could start April 1st. Do you close for bank holidays?" Did the wizarding world even have bank holidays? There was so much Lucy was suddenly realising she didn't know.

Though she reached for the calculator, Lucy worked a lot of the numbers in her head. £400 a month was just about enough to cover rent in the house she'd been living in, but nothing more. She didn't have to worry about that right now, since she was staying with Susan, but she wasn't willing to be a charity case forever. £1000 a month was obviously better, though still less than she'd been making with Variety.

Once they'd run through the numbers, and Lucy had added a few calculations of her own, Lucy nodded. "I don't know how tax works in the wizarding world, really," she admitted, adding it to a mental list of things she needed to learn as soon as possible, along with what rent was like in wizarding London and how Gringotts accounts worked, "but unless it's significantly higher than muggle taxes then I can definitely make that work." Even if those were the top figures and they fluctuated lower on some months, she should still be able to put enough in savings that she'd get by.