iJenny
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I am so damn angry right now I can hardly even handle it. This might get long, so if you're up for it, grab yourself a coke and get comfy....
So, as you may or may not know, I've been looking for a job for this fall. I've been a SAHM for almost seven years and time are tough for us financially right now so we determined it was time for me to get a job. I've been applying to tons of jobs, many of them with the school district so I'd have roughly the same schedule as my oldest son in 1st grade. I've applied to about 9 different school jobs and only gotten three interviews. One was a job I didn't get, one was a job I was SURE I wasn't going to get after the interview, and one is a job that I have an interview for NEXT week.
So things have been looking pretty bleak in the job department and my DH has been saying that any job will do at this point as long as I'm brining in some income.
Cut to about an hour ago when I get a call from the principal that I interviewed with last week for health/office assistant at an elementary school. This is the job that I was sure I wouldn't get because the interview went weird, in my opinion. Ok, so he OFFERS ME THE JOB!!! I couldn't believe it!! I immediately accepted and ran upstairs to tell DH. He's totally excited for me and hugs me and tells me congrats and I'm feeling on top of the WORLD because I have been stressing so much over this job situation.
So, after I calm down I remind Jeff that this is the job that isn't quite full-time. Its 3/4-time (5.25 hours/day). His face falls. He's dissappointed. Its not going to be quite the amount of money he thought I'd be bringing in. Its still about $10k more than I'm brining in NOW, but apparently thats all of a sudden not good enough.
I'm totally crushed. I feel like he just took this amazing thing that happened to me, to our FAMILY, and stomped all over it. So I get really upset and start crying and he's just like, "Its fine. Its just not what I expected. But its fine". Um, no a$$hole. Its better than fine. Its freaking amazing. I've been out of the workforce for almost seven years (and before that I was in college and never really worked a "real" job). I'm not as qualified for this job as much as some of the other applicants (this is what the principal said), but they feel like I would mesh well with their office staff and that I'll be a quick learner and that they can tell that I have a passion for working with kids (all of this came straight from the principals mouth). So yeah. You can just stop right now with your "pouting" and be FREAKING HAPPY FOR ME!!!!
Seriously. If he wasn't about to leave for work (he works nights) I would pack up my crap and take my boys to my mom's house for the night. I'm furious. And really really hurt.
Screw him. :thumbdown:
So, as you may or may not know, I've been looking for a job for this fall. I've been a SAHM for almost seven years and time are tough for us financially right now so we determined it was time for me to get a job. I've been applying to tons of jobs, many of them with the school district so I'd have roughly the same schedule as my oldest son in 1st grade. I've applied to about 9 different school jobs and only gotten three interviews. One was a job I didn't get, one was a job I was SURE I wasn't going to get after the interview, and one is a job that I have an interview for NEXT week.
So things have been looking pretty bleak in the job department and my DH has been saying that any job will do at this point as long as I'm brining in some income.
Cut to about an hour ago when I get a call from the principal that I interviewed with last week for health/office assistant at an elementary school. This is the job that I was sure I wouldn't get because the interview went weird, in my opinion. Ok, so he OFFERS ME THE JOB!!! I couldn't believe it!! I immediately accepted and ran upstairs to tell DH. He's totally excited for me and hugs me and tells me congrats and I'm feeling on top of the WORLD because I have been stressing so much over this job situation.
So, after I calm down I remind Jeff that this is the job that isn't quite full-time. Its 3/4-time (5.25 hours/day). His face falls. He's dissappointed. Its not going to be quite the amount of money he thought I'd be bringing in. Its still about $10k more than I'm brining in NOW, but apparently thats all of a sudden not good enough.
I'm totally crushed. I feel like he just took this amazing thing that happened to me, to our FAMILY, and stomped all over it. So I get really upset and start crying and he's just like, "Its fine. Its just not what I expected. But its fine". Um, no a$$hole. Its better than fine. Its freaking amazing. I've been out of the workforce for almost seven years (and before that I was in college and never really worked a "real" job). I'm not as qualified for this job as much as some of the other applicants (this is what the principal said), but they feel like I would mesh well with their office staff and that I'll be a quick learner and that they can tell that I have a passion for working with kids (all of this came straight from the principals mouth). So yeah. You can just stop right now with your "pouting" and be FREAKING HAPPY FOR ME!!!!
Seriously. If he wasn't about to leave for work (he works nights) I would pack up my crap and take my boys to my mom's house for the night. I'm furious. And really really hurt.
Screw him. :thumbdown:
Congratulations on nabbing the job though!!! Whoo hoo! Men are dense.
BIG hugs girl! I know he'll come around and see how awesome this is!
And who knows, this could just be a stepping stone to something bigger and better!!! Chin up, we love ya and we're all doing the happy dance for you!!!!!! yyyyaaaaaaaaaayyyy Jenny!!!!!! 