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I'm so stressed out. Josh was able to have an interview for a job with MidAmerican Energy for a design tech, which he is very excited about. He's pretty much wanted to end up working for MidAmerican, so this is a big deal. He was lucky enough to get on at Target right before we married and it took a year for him to find a different full time job. So, he's on with Mediacom now installing cable. He doesn't much care for heights, so the whole climbing ladders thing kind of sucks. The job he might get (and he has a damn good chance of getting it) is 50-55k a year. That's more than the two of us make together now. It's over double what he makes now. This job points us directly toward our end goal - him being the primary breadwinner and me being the stay-at-home mother. He'd get raises and this job can't be taken over by a machine... people are always going to need electricity.
This job is 3.5 hours away from our friends and family.
I'd have to quit my job, which I love. (But then again - I'd be quitting in the near future when we started having children, anyway.)
He has worked for this company/department before as an intern. The head of the department in Davenport (where we are now) has told him that he would hire him as soon as he had an opening, but there aren't any external openings (and there haven't been any for a year - we've been checking) so he'd need to be internal. We'd be able to transfer back to Davenport ~6 months to a year, ideally.
The more I type this out, the more it seems like we should take this opportunity if he gets offered the job..
but we're so attached to Davenport and our friends here and our family. We love it here and want to stay here forever and it's kind of a huge deal to leave for a year(ish).
This is one of our biggest decisions we've had to make.. ever.