February before last, my husband lost his job. We made 115K in 2008, and were living on unemployment, and the $ that we could get from selling our things, things that we worked many, many years to get, things that we set goals, and hit them to allow ourselves to have them. My guy was in mid to upper management solar/construction. When the bottom dropped out of our economy, and CA got hit so hard, there was no more middle class. You were either a grunt (my husbands back is too jacked up to be a grunt from many, many years of being a grunt to do that work) or at the top of the food chain. He interviewed day before yesterday with a solar company, and we found out already that he will be starting back to work at the end of the month. I've never felt so much pressure as I have in this last year. I am too sick to work. Too sick to get out of bed a lot of days, so we depend on my husband's income. We lost our home, our boat, and eventually our self esteem. This is such a blessing in our lives. We thought that the end would never come, and our cobra insurance is about to run out, along with EDD benefits. We were on our last legs. For those of you that knew about this and sent good thoughts/prayers our way and never used our situation to belittle me, thank you for your words of support. It was a long strange trip. And I am SO FRIGGING GLAD THAT IT'S OVER!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~tIF
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CONGRATS!!
I am so pleased for you!!Posted 1 year ago # -
I've been in the position of having been badly injured and unable to work, and not knowing where next week's groceries were going to come from, so I know that has to be a tremendous relief! Good for you two!
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Congrats (again) All the Luck to You , Hubby and Daughters.......
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Congratulations!! That is great news!! :)
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