When One Door Closes-Another One Opens

I feel like every time I update here, I have a million and one things to say. This update should be better than my last…and no I still have not found my life balance yet! I am working on it but it looks like things are gonna be changing around my household soon…and for the better!

I have been so busy lately and fighting a bad toothache in the process. What sucks is, it is my front tooth and gee whiz I hope there is nothing major wrong with that one! I am giving it a few days and if it doesn’t get better than it is off to the dentist…without dental insurance of course…OUCH!

My husband put in his notice last week (yay) and he will be off of overnights as of Tuesday. I could not be more thrilled. We were gonna try to hold off on him quitting there until we had more money saved up and his work picked up a little more. Well, he had an incident at his office around 2am the other night that changed our plans. This is the second one in the past few months where the police, helicopters, K9’s…the whole 9 yards were involved. In this line of work, it is not uncommon;especially where his office is located (in a very shady area  with a very high crime rate). I don’t need this kind of stuff anymore in our lives-especially not for a few bucks an hour job!

So after having a talk with him about the safety of this place and going over our bills, we both agreed he just needs to quit. Besides, his department is on the chopping block soon anyway. It is only a matter of time before he gets fired. So it seems there is no better time to quit than now. We can’t say this job was a total waste. We got ahead with it and got money up to pay off our bankruptcy lawyer by him having it. For that I am grateful, but it is time to move on.

The day he planned on putting in his 2 week notice, he was also suppose to get a paycheck. Well, nobody got paid because the company did not have enough money to make payroll…again. So he gave the office manager his notice and there was no surprise at all. He didn’t even care. That just showed my husband they were planning to “can” him anyway.

Were we nervous about him quitting? Heck yeah, but it is amazing that when you have very little bills and live within your means, you find that it is easier to get by. We could easily get by on just my income and if an emergency hit-we have savings now. It is a wonderful feeling!

That next morning after he put in his notice, I woke up to an email with an abundance of work for my husband! The work he loves! More work than he has had in a long time. Was this a sign or what? Not only was he asked to work in other surrounding areas but he was told that work is picking up significantly in our area so he will busy for a while.

So there ya have it-one door closes and another one opens!

What pisses me off the most about this job he has been doing at nights or any job for that matter is this…

I think a lot of companies(not all!) are using this “blame the economy” line too much. For instance, the economy is bad and the business is not doing well, but the owners of my husband’s company are on a 2-3 week  luxury vacation while they can’t even make payroll! That is BS! I get pissed because many people he works with there do live check to check because their spouses were laid off, their hours were cut—you know what millions of Americans are going through.

It is not only happening at my husband’s company either. I read about and see a lot of other companies doing this. It is not right. And again, I am not saying all companies do this. I have seen too many small companies get screwed by this recession and a lot of friends and family get laid off in the process. It does suck and I think a lot of companies that really aren’t “in the red” are just taking advantage of the whole situation.

Well,enough of my rambling for the day. I am off for a date with some Aleve’s. My tooth is killing me.