Totally sucks. Thankfully he was given 4 weeks severence. But it doesn't amount to a lot in this economy. This is week 3 already. He's applied for more than 50 jobs and has barely heard anything back. He had one interview from a company that heard he was out and knew he was talented so wanted to see if they could use him... But they don;t have enough work for one person, nor would be able to match the pay he was getting.
He has a call tomarrow with a recruiter that found him. No clue what the job is yet, so it could be something totally unrelated.
He has an interview for another job on Monday. It's for a fabric and craft place, but it's located 3 hours away from where we are, on the other side of the state.
While I do not like the little town we live in or our house, I like the town we are next to that we go in a lot. It has low crime, great schools, tons of stuff to go to, great parks, etc. We are 1 hour from my parents and just under 2 hours from his.
The 3 hour away place would mean being by no one we know, my family being 2 hours and 45 min, his being 3 hours and 30 min. Then we'd have to sell this house, which i'd doubt would sell. I'd doubt we'd get approved to buy another house, so we'd be stuck renting.
I have 3 applications for jobs in my town - 2 pizza and one gas station. When it's just unemplyment it'll not be enough to pay th bills and get things like food or gas for the car. I need to make 800+$ for paying all bills and food/gas.
In a way I'm pissed at his old boss. However, I'm getting pissed at dh. He couldn't pull it together. Now he's not stressed (well comparativly since now he's got to worry about finding a job). But I keep thinking if he could have just pulled it together he would still have a job. He just totally let me down. I think in the end he was let go because he couldn't cut it, he couldn't handle it... now we are left to deal with it. Now I have to take care of the kids then get a night job. Now we have to worry about having enough money to pay bills, put food on the table. Then having to deal with probably having to move whereever he finds work. And the thought of moving farther away from family, away from everything I've know my entire life. This at 1 hour away is the farthest i've lived from where I was born and grew up.
I hate change and it seems like everything is changing now and more change coming. I'm scared and resistant to it.
I wish this were just a bad dream and I'd wake up and he'd still have a job at the same place and we could go back to living our lives.
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I don't like change so much either when it's from being comfortable to being worried and stressed and overtired.
Has he looked for jobs outside his field of specialty? That's what Rob had to do. I think the important part is to stay employed at whatever job will take you in a crisis so your job record stays intact. He can continue looking for work in his field in the meantime. Maybe that helps, I don't know.
(((big hugs)))
yes, but if he takes a job outside of his field, then he'd have no time to go on interviews because he'd be working. Then he'd be stuck in a really crappy job with much less pay meaning having to have multiple jobs. In our area that also means driving far to get to a job and everything due to being in BFE. I need to find a night job and pump for babe and he watch kids at night while i work...if I can find something
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