Unfortunately Murphy is knocking at the door this month. I have a mandatory schedule change coming up on October 1, where I will be moving from working a 1pm to midnight shift over to a 7:30am to 4pm shift. My husband will have to leave his 7am-3pm shift for other hours where he works. He’s in security so this would not be difficult except his current boss wants him to stay on his shift due to my husband being 2nd in command and his boss relies on him heavily.
At my husband’s job, he is highly regarded by the executives, but his boss is taking this change personally and says he cannot keep my husband as a full time employee. He told my husband he would be lucky to get 30 hours a week.
His boss doesn’t understand why we can’t just put my son in daycare. He doesn’t know our financial situation and the fact we cannot at this time afford to spend $1000 or more a month on daycare. My husband attempted to explain it to him but he is still angry.
Also, I am about 18 months away from being vested in my pension plan and I carry all of the benefits for our family, so I can’t just up and find another job right now and no other positions in the city I work at have the hours I need to be able to keep my husband on days.
So considering my husband’s imminent job status changing from full time to part time, we are going to have to back off on our debt snowball to pile up what little cash we can until my husband can find either another post or a job with another company that pays more.
I feel like we are taking a big step backwards but I know that if I don’t reduce the amount we are paying towards debt, we may end up in an even more difficult situation in the next few months. I will just have to believe this trial will only make us stronger in the end and hopefully Murphy’s knock will turn into the knock of opportunity.
Gazelle Intense 