Over the last month, I’ve chronicled my husband’s adventures in employment land. We discussed whether he should take the job, the tradeoffs associated with it, how we would prepare for the glitch in paychecks as we moved from one job to the next. We made the transition from one job to the next, and then our adventures continued as last Friday his new job decided it wasn’t working out and decided to let him go.
This was tough. He’d had a lot of hopes for the new position, but the requirements hadn’t been clearly spelled out and there was frustration on both sides. My greatest concern was that of being unemployed into today’s economy.
Thankfully, his old job offered him his position back, but this brought up more issues. He’d had reasons for wanting to leave in the first place, and over the weekend, he’s done a lot of soul searching to determine what he should do. There just aren’t a lot of jobs in his field, and his main concern was supporting our family. Yesterday he called his old boss and accepted the offer, and he goes back to work on Friday.
This was not his favorite choice, but he’s a man of honor, and he wants to make sure that the children and I have what we need. This is his surest way of being able to provide for us, and so that is the road he’s chosen.
Youv’e got to love a man like that—one who puts his own desires off to the side for a minute to think about the greater good and loves his family enough to make them the top priority in his life. Yep, you’ve definitely got to love a man like that, and believe me, I do, and am grateful for him every single day.