Wednesday, October 6, 2010

I have to drive 100 miles a day to take my daughter to school

I lost my job yesterday and yes of course I am sad, its been a job I have really enjoyed for the last 18 months. I am grateful for the experience I have had over the last 18 months but working for a start up has complications - like MONEY! I took a huge pay cut to work for them and the reason I lost my job is the company is running out of money not because I did a poopy job!

How does this affect my life.
  1. I now have to drive 100 miles to take my daughter to school. I had managed to get her an inter-district transfer to a school around the corner from my job, which is 25 miles away from my home. I don't want to transfer her back to my district as on a scale of 1-100 my local school ranks 19/100 and the school my daughter is in ranks 87/100 in the State of California. So the outcome is I now have to do 2 round trips of 50 miles to take and pick up my daughter from school.
  2. My son who has been going to Pre-K has to be withdrawn. I am going to try to keep him in 3 half days a week for at least 2 months BUT that means I have to find $400 per month to pay for it. If I don't find anything soon I will have to withdraw him completely which will be so frustrating as he LOVES Pre-K plus the last 2 months he has learnt so much. It has given him the structure he needs.
  3. Of course for me - I have 2 feelings about the loss of my job. I do get to spend more time with my kids BUT I really liked the job and the responsibilities and adult time that went with that.
  4. The upgrade of our house is off and therefore the move is off!
  5. I also feel sad for the other colleagues that have lost their job.
You always think you have control of your life but unfortunately other people have some of the biggest affects on us.