today's stress has left me in a fog...
Well One Year, One Month and One Week ago - hubby lost his job due to "the economy & downsizing" - but all was not lost - we had a bit saved for a month or two - he was getting unemployment and luckily found a Seasonal Job through a friend and then a real good job through a friend of a co-worker... pay was just okay - but great benefits (covers me too at no cost) - good holidays (including a handful of jewish ones too) ....
So - we were doin okay - magazine plugging along on it's teeter totter some months up and some down... but we weren't living paycheck to paycheck at least his job carried us along as I waited between taking paychecks...
Then - hubby finds out that 4 people were being laid off - a lazy person, two not really needed people and one who was retiring anyway this summer (at age 83 - should have gone a while ago) .... so I say to hubby, "well keep your noise clean and volunteer to help out anyway you can, make sure you're an asset and not an ass" - he agrees.... but he was told by his boss and the VP that his job is safe - his department is running on a skeleton crew anyway... thank god for small favors...
Lunchtime today: - BAM! All employees (Including management) will be receiving a 4% pay cut due to the economy... that's like 200-250 a month....
ME (thinking while hubby tells me this) OH SHIT - this is going to be rough - WTF - the mag is pluggin along and we have 2 possible investors coming on board in another month(?) - should I go - should I stay - what should I do ---- it would be a bad thing to give up the mag - but I could make more money going back to my old job or finding a new job... F*CK - what to do...
I just kinda want to curl up and wait for winter to end...
So - we were doin okay - magazine plugging along on it's teeter totter some months up and some down... but we weren't living paycheck to paycheck at least his job carried us along as I waited between taking paychecks...
Then - hubby finds out that 4 people were being laid off - a lazy person, two not really needed people and one who was retiring anyway this summer (at age 83 - should have gone a while ago) .... so I say to hubby, "well keep your noise clean and volunteer to help out anyway you can, make sure you're an asset and not an ass" - he agrees.... but he was told by his boss and the VP that his job is safe - his department is running on a skeleton crew anyway... thank god for small favors...
Lunchtime today: - BAM! All employees (Including management) will be receiving a 4% pay cut due to the economy... that's like 200-250 a month....
ME (thinking while hubby tells me this) OH SHIT - this is going to be rough - WTF - the mag is pluggin along and we have 2 possible investors coming on board in another month(?) - should I go - should I stay - what should I do ---- it would be a bad thing to give up the mag - but I could make more money going back to my old job or finding a new job... F*CK - what to do...
I just kinda want to curl up and wait for winter to end...