Talking to a Wall
My husband is a great guy, but sometimes he drives me nuts. Especially when he gets fed up with his job and won’t listen to me when I tell him to look for something else.
We’ve been down this road enough times that I know what to expect. A job starts getting on his nerves, and he says he’s going to quit. I remind him that he needs to find another job first, and he says he will. Then he doesn’t even bother looking for anything else.
The problems keep building and building, until it’s so bad he can’t take it any more. Yet again I remind him that he needs to find another job before he quits the one he’s at, and yet again he says he will. Then he finally starts looking, and settles for the first thing he finds, even if it’s really not much of anything at all. This is how he ended up working for a guy who offered him a full-time job, worked insane amounts of overtime for a couple of weeks, and then disappeared and wouldn’t return Hubby’s calls.
It makes me so nervous when this kind of thing happens. I know that he means well, and that he wouldn’t intentionally do anything to put us in a bind, but he needs to start thinking ahead. If he would, he could find a decent job instead of ending up grasping at straws.
It’s hard enough for him to find a job that suits him. He doesn’t have any licensing or certifications that would help him find anything that pays really well. And besides that, he is really picky about what kinds of jobs he will tolerate. He worked in a factory for a while, but I know that he would go stir crazy if he had to stare at a rackmount LCD screen for a living again.
I’ve gotten mad and told him that he needs to just do whatever it takes to support his family, but I also know what it’s like to be stuck in a job you hate. It makes life miserable, and in most cases it ends up badly. All I can do is just keep after him to look for something else and hope it sinks in. Because the way the job market is right now, he won’t be able to find a job at a moment’s notice.
