Okay, okay, enough with the news already. Our family seems to be in such upheaval, I'm amazed I make it out of bed every day. :-P No, but eally, somehow it doesn' feel as if we;re under a lot of stress, it feels as if so much stress has been removed.
drumroll...
HeaterBoy has a real-live, grown-up job! He tried for a job about six weeks ago and we just came to the conclusion that it's time for our family to be grown-ups. 9 years of school is great fun, but it's time for a new chapter. Well, that job came and went, we thought, and Boy started looking for other opportunities in his new chosen field that wold utilize his very expensive nine years of university education and we came up with some great career fits.
Before we could really start cranking out the resumes, the original company called back and they offered the high end of what we wanted our starting salary to be. Talk about relief. I mean, who really *likes* to look for a job.
So this new job has absolutely nothing to do with biochemistry, but everything to do with web programming, which is what HeaterBoy has been "messing around" with since we were married. All this time, I thought it was great he had found a "hobby" that was relatively cheap (fly-fishing anyone?)and he could justify all his time on the computer. Turns out he can actually make money doing what he's been playing around with for years. I'm so proud of him and I'm also excited that we might be able to buy a house sometime this decade.
It will be lots of traveling, so I'm not super excited about that, but we've budgeted for "compensations" and "coping strategies" so it'll work. The rest of the time, he gets to work from home! Doesn't that sound fun? Of course, I'll have to get used to "daddy's home, but he can't play with us, or help with the laundry, or make lunch, or do homeschool work, etc" but it's a switch I think I can make.
Here's to impending adulthood!
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9 comments:
YEAH!!!!!!! Will you be leaving L****?
So exciting! So yeah, does that mean a move in the near future?
excited for you!
Actually, no moving quite yet for us. We don't really need to move. it would just be more convenient to be closer to the airport. So the plan as of now will be to stay here until we can save up enough for a house closer to the airport. This house is now well within our income and we want to limit the pain and suffering of moving as much as possible. I still don't feel comfortable in this neighborhood. That takes time. We also don't want to get stuck in something that we can barely afford. It's hard enough being a single income family, I don't want to make it harder.
So that's the long answer, :-). We don't have any moving plans in our immediate future.
Karin, I hope there is some sigh of relief and weight off of your shoulders with this great news...you deserve it more that anyone right now!
Hooray, Hooray, Hooray! Although being a grown-up certainly has it down sides, it also has it ups. (Like new shoes or being able to afford the nice cheese. ah...the simple things...)
Congrats to J. (And good luck with the traveling & working from home part; I've always found the latter to be harder than the former.)
Yay! I am so happy for you guys! And i'm also glad you'll be staying here - Doreen will need you ;)
just found your blog by checking who else lives in "cache valley" and was surprised to find that we are in somewhat similar circumstances right now: 11 years of school, needing to finally be adults and job hunting, possibly just landing a job and possibly needing to move to salt lake. anyway, thought it was interesting so had to comment.
becca in (beautiful) cache valley (that we hate to leave)
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