The Plan

You need a plan. Ok go ahead and take a week to mourn the loss of your job or celebrate it. Whatever. But then you need a plan.

First sit down and write out what your goals for the next 12 months are. Our list looked like this: get a more interesting job, keep kids home, survive. We then laughed about the more interesting job but my husabnd was serious. He didn't want to work in a shop anymore. So we talked about what he could do and then what he wanted to try which led him back to school. He wanted something close to electronics, which was the field he had just left. He decided on IT. Started classes but soon determined that it wasn't the change he needed. So he changed to heating and air conditioning.

One good thing was that he put himself out there and he wasn't afraid to try and fail. Since he was at his other job 8 years he knew a change would bring him to another job for the same amount of time.

The second part of the plan was not putting kids into child care. I thought that meant staying home. I know we could have done this another way. We should have done this another way. I should have gotten a job. I didn't instead I reduced expenses. I cut everything back. If it required money I cut it back. Groceries, clothing, bills all got the same treatment. In the end it wasn't enough so if I had it to do over I would get a job.


Lastly is survival...