Mom and Law Student?

I got a job! It happened so fast! It seems like a good job, given everything that is going on right now. Everyone either has a spouse, a friend or someone they know who has been laid off. It is incredibly difficult out there, so I feel very lucky! Just in time, our insurance runs out at the end of the month and to continue through Cobra would be $1500 a month!! There are subsidies I may be eligible for, even still it would be completely unaffordable to keep us all insured.

The job is in-house with a large corporation, not really the direction I wanted my career to be heading in, but it pays well and has benefits. It is so hard to get a good government or non profit job that pays anything close to what we could live on (and we live very modestly). I have applied for government jobs and either I don't hear back or I get a letter months letter stating I have not been chosen. The only call back I ever got was for the Dept. of Homeland Sec. and I although I was desperate to break into a government position, I just couldn't see myself working there. Right now I am the main bread winner, so I am doing what I need to do.

I start in a week and I have a laundry list of things to do before I start, dentist, big cleaning projects etc. etc.

I'm so relieved, I have a job!!

Posted by lawmom at 1:14 PM |