I feel much better today. Relaxing all day yesterday was the right move. The focused feeling is back in abundance, but I still don’t have a sense of what exactly I’m focused on. I have a feeling that time will tell on that. I don’t know if I’m “thinking wealthy” at this point, but I am not stressing myself out about our financial troubles at all. This is a big change, because on paper we aren’t in a very good place right now. I just have a sense that we will have what we need to get through the next little while and then things will get a lot better. I wouldn’t call it hope ether, it’s more matter of fact than that. It’s kind of like knowing you get paid on Tuesday so you can make plans based on that.
I was going to say I haven’t noticed any external results just yet, but then I thought about it and that simply isn’t true. They just seemed like such normal things that they almost flew under the radar. I already mentioned that my wife’s former company had spontaneously agreed to pay for six months of COBRA coverage on her health insurance. We hadn’t asked for that, wouldn’t have expected it, and it’s HUGE. Added to that is that the opportunity to work the ginormous amount of overtime for me came along at about the right time and it seems it will last longer than expected. That will help us a lot. It’s not just the opportunity either, but my attitude about it is different. Before, I would not have liked working this much and would have avoided what of it that I could in order to get some rest time. Now, I’m eager to do it, and it doesn’t seem bad. This started way before UMS, but come to think of it, it was in TID range so I’ll count it. This is going to result in us being thousands of dollars better off. So actually that’s two things that make us thousands of dollars better off, and this is in the first few days. It just didn’t seem like it until I thought about it because one of them was mitigating financial damage (IE stopping us from losing money that we otherwise would have) and the other is an opportunity to earn more with more effort and time in my normal job. Not just “hey, we just came into some money.
Another potential thing happened this morning. I got a call from an agency that I had applied for a job with quite a long time ago. This is good. Normally, I would just be so excited about the possibility of getting back into my field that I would jump with both feet. Now, I am carefully considering wether it would be a good move for me and my family money wise and career wise. I’m going to take the interview, but I have in mind that I can tell them no if it doesn’t look like the best possible move for me.
I was going to say I haven’t noticed any external results just yet, but then I thought about it and that simply isn’t true. They just seemed like such normal things that they almost flew under the radar. I already mentioned that my wife’s former company had spontaneously agreed to pay for six months of COBRA coverage on her health insurance. We hadn’t asked for that, wouldn’t have expected it, and it’s HUGE. Added to that is that the opportunity to work the ginormous amount of overtime for me came along at about the right time and it seems it will last longer than expected. That will help us a lot. It’s not just the opportunity either, but my attitude about it is different. Before, I would not have liked working this much and would have avoided what of it that I could in order to get some rest time. Now, I’m eager to do it, and it doesn’t seem bad. This started way before UMS, but come to think of it, it was in TID range so I’ll count it. This is going to result in us being thousands of dollars better off. So actually that’s two things that make us thousands of dollars better off, and this is in the first few days. It just didn’t seem like it until I thought about it because one of them was mitigating financial damage (IE stopping us from losing money that we otherwise would have) and the other is an opportunity to earn more with more effort and time in my normal job. Not just “hey, we just came into some money.
Another potential thing happened this morning. I got a call from an agency that I had applied for a job with quite a long time ago. This is good. Normally, I would just be so excited about the possibility of getting back into my field that I would jump with both feet. Now, I am carefully considering wether it would be a good move for me and my family money wise and career wise. I’m going to take the interview, but I have in mind that I can tell them no if it doesn’t look like the best possible move for me.
