Wife was suddenly having a mini panic attack over the last week. I think it has more to do with living a core group of people she liked rather than starting a new career path. She had meant to stay in La Pryor at least three years, but this opportunity came up and it was too good to pass down.
Even as recently as last night, I was still telling her, I am fine with whatever decision you make. During the week, I am so busy with work, I am not going to see you more as I am gone at 5:30-6:00pm and work until almost 7:00am. We only get to hang out on the weekend and thus, it would be fine if you turned down the job offer and stayed doing what you are currently employed to do. There are a couple of hurdles she is worried about, which after discussing are not as bad as they seem.
The money is basically the same, although she managed to talk them up into a small raise, it wasn't as much as she had wanted. For some reason or another, they are taking for a version of teacher retirement, for social security, and even for a 401K account. These are all great, but that does leave the check smaller than it could be. Right now, they are only taking for teacher retirement, so it may be a lot, but it is only one transaction. She knows that the equivalent will be taking 9.5% of her salary and saving it, and while they are at it, will also match it, so in a few years, that will start looking very nice, we just have to get used to it, pronto.
We had also just moved the boys off of my insurance and into hers as it seemed to be much cheaper through her end for the boys. Luckily, TEA has the same plan for their employees, so that is still win-win, although the boys and her have to wait like 60 or 90 days before qualifying for the insurance. Keeping our fingers crossed, two more games and Chubs is done with football, so far still in one piece.
The other big concern for her is her days off. As a part of a school district, they enjoy a lot of time off. A week in Thanksgiving, Two weeks for Christmas, week for Spring Break, three weeks in summer, long weekend for Easter, plus ten days for personal/sick. With TEA, she will no longer have all those weeks off to hang out. I like having her around off as I work through most holidays and stuff. I consider it normal as I have never had big breaks of time off since I was in college. I think she will just get used to it. After a year, she will have more clout and maybe be able to align a day off with Thanksgiving or something like that.
My biggest concern is that her new job does call for 40% travel, so that could turn into her being gone two days every week. That would be fine most of the time, but not around the holidays. At this point, we just need to start the new job and start seeing what's up.
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