SusanD
04-27-2005, 09:42 PM
Here is the scoop:
About 6 months ago Dh and I were lying in bed and just both felt the burden that our lives had to change. He was feeling worn down from CRAZY hours at a job that pays really well, but has been forever altered by repeated layoffs and outsourcing and his nearly 1 hr commute each way, every day. He has had time for nothing else besides work and then rushing home to read DD stories at night ...to see his little girl for maybe 30 minutes out of the whole day. This is not a man who is a workaholic...his hand was being forced and the hours were really not negotiable.
I, on the other hand, knew that I could not keep up my crazy pace either. I know some women have a gazillion kids and a full time job and would think I had it relatively easy with just a part-time job and one kindergartner, but I felt like I was doing a million things at one time and not a single one of them really well.
So we have been praying about these things and persisting on...knowing there was a plan. Most of you know about my NP school, that I was accepted, didn't have to take the GRE (major miracle there !) and received my acceptance on my 36th birthday. I was also handed a prn job in our ER department that will allow me to work just one day a week (after GULP ! I learn to do hands on patient care again).
But my husband felt the burden for a change, sought out a job opportunity and was given an offer two weeks ago. Jaws dropped across his company as he turned in his notice. ?The new company is just 15 minutes up a winding country road, no highway commute. He will be working with old friends. The crazy part of this long story is....
BOTH of us have our last day at work THIS Friday ? God has *amazing* timing, doesn't he ?????!!!
So our house has been full of goodbye parties, stacks of books and years worth of office and desk stuff is strewn everywhere. We have both said some tearful goodbyes and are ready to face a new future.
Oh...and I also had PNUEMONIA for two weeks. I think once we have PPCM our immune systems are forever altered.
Just wanted to share our story and let everyone know I have been in and out, but mostly too exhausted to write much.
About 6 months ago Dh and I were lying in bed and just both felt the burden that our lives had to change. He was feeling worn down from CRAZY hours at a job that pays really well, but has been forever altered by repeated layoffs and outsourcing and his nearly 1 hr commute each way, every day. He has had time for nothing else besides work and then rushing home to read DD stories at night ...to see his little girl for maybe 30 minutes out of the whole day. This is not a man who is a workaholic...his hand was being forced and the hours were really not negotiable.
I, on the other hand, knew that I could not keep up my crazy pace either. I know some women have a gazillion kids and a full time job and would think I had it relatively easy with just a part-time job and one kindergartner, but I felt like I was doing a million things at one time and not a single one of them really well.
So we have been praying about these things and persisting on...knowing there was a plan. Most of you know about my NP school, that I was accepted, didn't have to take the GRE (major miracle there !) and received my acceptance on my 36th birthday. I was also handed a prn job in our ER department that will allow me to work just one day a week (after GULP ! I learn to do hands on patient care again).
But my husband felt the burden for a change, sought out a job opportunity and was given an offer two weeks ago. Jaws dropped across his company as he turned in his notice. ?The new company is just 15 minutes up a winding country road, no highway commute. He will be working with old friends. The crazy part of this long story is....
BOTH of us have our last day at work THIS Friday ? God has *amazing* timing, doesn't he ?????!!!
So our house has been full of goodbye parties, stacks of books and years worth of office and desk stuff is strewn everywhere. We have both said some tearful goodbyes and are ready to face a new future.
Oh...and I also had PNUEMONIA for two weeks. I think once we have PPCM our immune systems are forever altered.
Just wanted to share our story and let everyone know I have been in and out, but mostly too exhausted to write much.