October Things
Someone reminded me that I haven't posted in a while. So this is me posting.
The roof replacement has been completed. There was a worry that the prior owners had actually put on three layers of shingles instead of just two, but we got lucky with the latter - that saved $600 in disposal fees. At first, I was all like "$600 to throw away stuff?! Outrageous!" I looked it up later and found it to be legit. The contractor left a bundle of shingles for us in case 1 or 2 fly away or whatever, and just trying to pick up that one package really drove home that, yeah, shit is heavy.
Work continues to go extremely well. I was actually contacted by a former coworker who tried to woo me over to where she is working. It was an analysis position in the same field, and would result in an immediate $2.70/hour raise with room to grow. The main problem is that while analysis is precisely what I feel like I should be doing, my present job title is extremely good, and I need to stick to doing it for another year or two minimum, so I can get certified. After that, sure, we can look around. Hell, I should be looking around myself at that point.
Things might have been a bit different if I wasn't comfortable in my present job. There is considerably less drama than there was two years ago, I like most of the people I work with, the benefits are amazing, and... well, it's easy. If I'm a bit late, it doesn't matter, if I have a little free time, it doesn't matter, if I need to run home to do a errand, it doesn't matter. Contrast that with Time Logs and losing PTO swiping in at 7:00:01am after an hour commute.
It's kinda emblematic of life's minor injustices. I'm being paid more than I ever have before for objectively less difficult work (for me), with less oversight, and probably with less consequences. Of course, I've also been here damn near a decade now, so that probably has something to do with it too.
Married life continues to be pretty much exactly like pre-married life: amazing. I found my person. And Jess feels likewise. We laugh at goofy shit every day, we kiss each other all the time, and we're on the same wavelength on pretty much every other measure. Seriously, we appreciate each others' terrible jokes, and how often is that ever the case with someone else?
The one thing I wish were different is for Jess to get a different job. It stresses her out all the time, she stays late most days of the week, and there's otherwise a sense of being trapped in a never-ending loop. She doesn't want to apply for other positions within the same company, because she technically has an "improvement plan" on her record. But she has that plan because her current job isn't a good fit for her skills, and the one ~3 month period in which the plan fell off, there weren't any openings. There is a nightmare scenario possible in which she just outright loses her job, although she could jump onto my health insurance plan, and I have emergency savings to cover most of her half of the bills.
I dunno. Even in this frustrating loop, things are improving for the both of us in every other way. Credit Card debt is going down, we're making improvements to the house, we still like each other, etc. I have a feeling things will look better within another year or so, one way or the other.
The roof replacement has been completed. There was a worry that the prior owners had actually put on three layers of shingles instead of just two, but we got lucky with the latter - that saved $600 in disposal fees. At first, I was all like "$600 to throw away stuff?! Outrageous!" I looked it up later and found it to be legit. The contractor left a bundle of shingles for us in case 1 or 2 fly away or whatever, and just trying to pick up that one package really drove home that, yeah, shit is heavy.
Work continues to go extremely well. I was actually contacted by a former coworker who tried to woo me over to where she is working. It was an analysis position in the same field, and would result in an immediate $2.70/hour raise with room to grow. The main problem is that while analysis is precisely what I feel like I should be doing, my present job title is extremely good, and I need to stick to doing it for another year or two minimum, so I can get certified. After that, sure, we can look around. Hell, I should be looking around myself at that point.
Things might have been a bit different if I wasn't comfortable in my present job. There is considerably less drama than there was two years ago, I like most of the people I work with, the benefits are amazing, and... well, it's easy. If I'm a bit late, it doesn't matter, if I have a little free time, it doesn't matter, if I need to run home to do a errand, it doesn't matter. Contrast that with Time Logs and losing PTO swiping in at 7:00:01am after an hour commute.
It's kinda emblematic of life's minor injustices. I'm being paid more than I ever have before for objectively less difficult work (for me), with less oversight, and probably with less consequences. Of course, I've also been here damn near a decade now, so that probably has something to do with it too.
Married life continues to be pretty much exactly like pre-married life: amazing. I found my person. And Jess feels likewise. We laugh at goofy shit every day, we kiss each other all the time, and we're on the same wavelength on pretty much every other measure. Seriously, we appreciate each others' terrible jokes, and how often is that ever the case with someone else?
The one thing I wish were different is for Jess to get a different job. It stresses her out all the time, she stays late most days of the week, and there's otherwise a sense of being trapped in a never-ending loop. She doesn't want to apply for other positions within the same company, because she technically has an "improvement plan" on her record. But she has that plan because her current job isn't a good fit for her skills, and the one ~3 month period in which the plan fell off, there weren't any openings. There is a nightmare scenario possible in which she just outright loses her job, although she could jump onto my health insurance plan, and I have emergency savings to cover most of her half of the bills.
I dunno. Even in this frustrating loop, things are improving for the both of us in every other way. Credit Card debt is going down, we're making improvements to the house, we still like each other, etc. I have a feeling things will look better within another year or so, one way or the other.