Get outta here

Well, as I posted earlier, I truly am "only" human. And sometimes that really sucks!

Yesterday Hubby found out they were having a plant wide meeting at work. He has been at his company for almost a year but they have a hiring freeze so he has been temp the whole time. Full time hours without full time pay or full time benefits. Fun. When he heard about this meeting he also heard rumors that they were going to give all of the temps that have been there for awhile a nice little raise. Of course we knew better than to get our hopes up, but it's hard not get a little excited, and as a woman I was already spending the money in my head of course.

No surprise the rumor was just that....a rumor. No, the meeting wasn't good news for the temps, quite the opposite really. We found out that their normal "busy season" is not busy at all. In fact now through the end of the year looks very slow. So slow in fact they will be making cuts. And you know who goes first don't you? The temps. AKA my hubby.

They expect all of the temps to be gone by the end of the year. SURPRISE! Now get back to work.

What does this mean for us? Well, we have 3 options. 1)He can find something now 2)He can wait and hope things get better and if not find something when he does get laid off or c)I can get a job.

Let's look at all three options.

A) I'll go ahead and say this is the more appealing of the three. His job isn't great anyways, so it's not going to be hard to step away. The problem, however, is that it is difficult to look for work, at work. And the job market is pretty crummy, so finding another job will not be easy. He has his high school diploma, but nothing more and we don't have the time or money for him to go to school right now. He wants to do web design, but we will talk more about that in a bit.

B) Is pretty dumb really. It is easier (for now) but the chances of things"getting better" at his work are slim to none and if he did this that would leave him unemployed, at least for awhile and with him being the only one working that would be very bad. Which brings us to....

C) I am not going to defend myself on my own blog. Our choice for me to be a stay at home mom is controversial, especially at times like this. But our decision has not changed. I will not be looking for employment. Does this make me lazy or selfish? Absolutely not. Do I think mothers who do work outside of the home are somehow less "motherly" than me? Crap no. Is this decision any one's decision to make other than mine and my husband's? No, it is not. No one else understands our family, our families needs and our unique situation. I won't judge your family, you don't judge mine, k? :)

It must be obvious by now that we have decided to go with option A. Hubby is looking for a job.

At this very moment he is working on a website for a local restaurant. He has to take some sample pages to said restaurant tomorrow for the owner to look at. If he likes it Hubby will be designing the website for them and for the first time in his history of web design, they will be paying him.

It isn't going to be huge. Barely enough to pay for the ink to print the pages off, much less pay the bills. But it is a start in the direction he wants to be going. Hubby is very talented in web design, this is the 5th (?) website he has designed for someone and he is very good at it. He wants to make a career of it, but getting started doing something like that is not easy. If this website is a hit then it could mean very big things for our family.

That's the dream. The dream doesn't pay the rent, not yet anyways. So until then he will be doing things the old fashioned way. He is going to a job fair in the morning. There is a pretty good chance he could get that job, which pays more and has benefits after 30 days. The hours are better and the work is easier and he never would have known about it if this situation hadn't occurred.

So after a long, difficult day and a lot of pouting I am beginning to see the silver lining, the light at the end of the tunnel, if you will. Let's just hope it's not a train, huh?