Ok, let’s begin with an inventory of how life has been for the last few years. I was a college dropout. Twice, if you consider the finances. I’m actually about 11 credits short of my degree.
I worked at two full time jobs for a grand total of six years with almost no break in the mix. I know, you’re asking how’d I ever do it. Honestly, it was not all that difficult really. You get used to it after a few weeks. It just becomes a boring routine that’s all.
I moved in with my other half back in 2005 and we did fairly well, but the place we lived in became a roach motel. I mean literally, we had disgusting neighbors. So we moved.
We found our current place in 2006, and for the most part has been really nice. No complaints there.
Then the disaster that is the economy took hold. I got laid off of one job in October 2007 and the other one in February 2008. For the first time, I was unemployed in my life. No worries, I thought, unemployment checks would help me out.
And they did. Along with a part time job I acquired, I was still doing all right. Bills paid, money in pocket. No problem, right?
Well I was wrong. October 2009 the unemployment dried up. I still had the same part time job. But now I couldn’t make ends meet. It was bad. And the ramen noodles routine gets old after awhile.
Oh, did I mention, my other half is now pregnant? Yep, throw another curve ball.
So now I sit beginning this new chapter called 2010 with a new outlook. Starting a new job, keeping the part time job, preparing for a baby, and trying to climb out of the hole that’s been growing for the last few months.
It’s been painful, and through this forum, maybe I can find those little cures that bring everything back to some sense of normalcy.
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