Fed up

Ali is and has been really tired of her job for a long time.  Her workplace is filled with a bunch of slackers that make her job very frustrating.  She has been hanging in there, waiting for her 401 k matching dollars to be fully vested.  She is now at the point where she is either fully vested or very close to being so.  So last night we were talking about options.

We are not at a point that she can simply not work.  If we sold our two pieces of land in Lehigh, we would probably be able to do it if we really tightened up our spending belts.  However right now the market for that land is as dead as can be so that ain’t happening.  Ali has been checking out some work from home businesses.  There are some possibilities there but none of them pay much at all.  She even threw out the idea of waitressing.  In that scenario she may be able to get away with working 3 nights a week (most likely weekends) and make enough money for us to keep things going as is.  This scenario would allow to her have her days free and also accommodate Ali’s love of sleeping in. 

There were various other possible job ideas tossed around.  She did some digging around last night on the computer.  Who knows what she will wind up doing but I think it is safe to say that she will be bagging out of her current job sooner rather than later.  We have enough of a cushion in the bank that she could spend some time looking around without it killing us.  However any change will without a doubt require us to examine closely our spending patterns and cut things out that we take for granted right now. I’m willing to make the sacrifice in order to relieve Ali of this large boulder of stress that hangs over her.

This weekend has a lot of yard work on the schedule.  Weed whacking, weeding, spraying and mowing will eat up a good part of my Saturday.  Last week I saw my neighbor tooling around on a big tractor with a front end bucket and a spreading blade on the back.  I assumed he rented it.  I found out he bought it.  I am trying to get him to either do some work for me with it or allow me to “rent” it from him to bring fill up from the pit.  It would certainly beat the shovelling method I have relied on so far.