I’ve been out of work for 6 weeks - luckily I got 6 mos. severance and I’ve applied for unemployment so the family is not in dire straights, but frankly all I want to do is get back to work.
Had a very good follow up phone interview today and if all goes well I’ll be working by mid-October and bringing home about 40% more.
Any good thoughts you can send are sincerely appreciated by myself and my three kids who have developed a nasty habit of eating on a daily basis.
crosses fingers, legs, toes and other applicable appendages How old are the kids?
My brother recently went through a bout of unemployment that from my point of view improved many things in his relationship with his kids and which also made him take a long hard look at many things he’d been taking for granted or not thinking about because he just didn’t have time when employed*. It’s nice to have him back at work, though - specially since my sister in law has stopped climbing the walls!
That’s not so much a run-in sentence as a monster, sorry.
PS: and just because it’s the Dope, it’s straits. As in “navigation by ship”: dire straits would be a strait that’s a bitch to navigate, such as Scylla or Magellan.
I have 3. Oldest is 15 and the other two (twins) are 7. The little ones seem to adapt well to whatever circumstance we find ourselves in. The 15 year old however is a little more - lets say - neededy, in her desire for new clothes and concert tickets etc.
Don’t get me wrong - we’re blessed, but if I don’t find work soon our standard of living will decline rapidly. I’m prepared for it, I grew up fairly poor, but like any father I’ve tried to give my kids the best I could and it may just be that they’re gonna leard a hard lesson about how thw world really works.
