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Decisions!
Jan. 14th, 2006 01:45 pmI suppose I should update this thing so I don't have to field 400 phone calls asking, "Did Jen take the job?" although, don't get me wrong, it's fun to be so popular for a few minutes.
She respectfully declined the job after a lot of thinking on her part, mostly about whether the goodness of having a well-paying job outweighed the badness of quality of life issues. I am both excited and sad at the same time, because I /do/ know this would have been an excellent opportunity for her career-wise and a boost for her self-esteem, although I hope she still has the self-esteem boost solely because they want her so badly.
Western Mass plans are back on, as are babymaking plans, which of course is exciting to me. It's so much fun to look at all of the affordable houses out there and daydream about when the money will come in from my father's house and we can set ourselves up. Hopefully dad's house will sell for enough that we can realistically buy a decent house without needing to rent there first and find lucrative jobs. I hope to have 40% or so to drop down on the house just from my dad's place. More would be even spiffier.
I hope with everything I have that Jen can find that mysterious "good job" out there sometime so she knows that this Florida opportunity wasn't the only opportunity she will ever see. I really want this "life" thing to work out for us, even a little bit. I know that life never runs totally smoothly, and that the best we can ever hope for is someone to ride out the bumps with, but I'd really like something decent for her (and us).
Here's hoping.
She respectfully declined the job after a lot of thinking on her part, mostly about whether the goodness of having a well-paying job outweighed the badness of quality of life issues. I am both excited and sad at the same time, because I /do/ know this would have been an excellent opportunity for her career-wise and a boost for her self-esteem, although I hope she still has the self-esteem boost solely because they want her so badly.
Western Mass plans are back on, as are babymaking plans, which of course is exciting to me. It's so much fun to look at all of the affordable houses out there and daydream about when the money will come in from my father's house and we can set ourselves up. Hopefully dad's house will sell for enough that we can realistically buy a decent house without needing to rent there first and find lucrative jobs. I hope to have 40% or so to drop down on the house just from my dad's place. More would be even spiffier.
I hope with everything I have that Jen can find that mysterious "good job" out there sometime so she knows that this Florida opportunity wasn't the only opportunity she will ever see. I really want this "life" thing to work out for us, even a little bit. I know that life never runs totally smoothly, and that the best we can ever hope for is someone to ride out the bumps with, but I'd really like something decent for her (and us).
Here's hoping.
