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[Catrin]

Best wishes to your DH during this time, and may he find something that he likes better!

[Pax]

Hope he finds a great job, so very weird starting over at our age... but necessary if you want something different.

[Pax]

Regarding new jobs...

My view of my new gig: The hours are awful, the pay is insulting, my coworker (it's just the two of us) is somewhere on the spectrum and is supposed to be training me but actually has only interacted with me for less than five minutes total in the first four days, and the weird way the calculate vacation in laughable (I'll only get 27 hours of vacation in the next 16 months). BUT, I get 4 personal days, 14-16 holidays, and the place is clean.

It'll do for now. LOL

[Crankin]

That made me laugh, Pax. Do you like the actual work?
There was a job listed today for a group private practice right down the road. I really don't want to change jobs. Yes, it's more $, but I've heard weird/creepy things about this place from clients, and I do believe them. I will think on it for a day or so, but I'd rather work more where I am at. Also, I really don't think I can leave my people. Some of them are just starting to make progress and others are falling apart, and I feel like I want to be there to help them.

[Pax]

I do enjoy the work, and I love the college students. They seem so happy to have someone friendly to interact with, I ask them where they're from and they just blossom, they all want to talk about home. The kids make the job for me.

You seem to enjoy your position, Crankin, seems like it would be a waste to make a change, especially if you've heard weird/creepy things.

[ny biker]

In theory, I would never leave a job without having the next one lined up. In reality, I was once in a situation of being so utterly miserable and exhausted and stressed out by my job that I was unable to think clearly enough to update my resume and look for something new in the little spare time that I had. I was working 7 am - midnight every day and routinely getting yelled at by the b!tch-troll from hell nutjob who ran the company. One day while walking down the street a complete stranger who was walking the other way asked why I looked so angry. When the b-t from hell nutjob told me that she had "reorganized" the company and was eliminating my position, I was thrilled. The fog cleared from my brain and I was able to live again. Then my stressed-out immune system gave way to a cold virus and I was sick for about six weeks -- head congestion, sore throat, cough, pink-eye, it just went from one part of my body to the next, completely wiping me out. When I finally got over it a friend encouraged me to take a couple of continuing education courses at a local college related to software programming and project management for internet applications. I like them so much that I went all in, earned a certificate in dynamic website development and started a new career. I was unemployed for almost a year while taking the classes, except for some temp secretarial jobs that I was able to get. I wiped out my savings account but I have no regrets.

[Crankin]

That pretty much describes DH's situation, but he hadn't looked angry. Just getting up at 3:30 AM.

[Helene2013]

How would you like this for a "forced" training. And I thought being chased for 8km by 2 large black dogs for 8kms was something. I think I'd die of fear with this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=kotWv4MCxNI