Tuesday, July 26, 2005

The Proposal - Part 3 (Hooray!) Hooray! I get to work and be a stay at home dad!  My boss sat down across from me today and told me that they fell for it they accepted my proposal for working 15 hours a week from home.  Hooray!  So I get some guaranteed income.  Plus I don't have to shop myself around to every nonprofit in town to drum up contract work.  I was prepared to, but honestly, I much prefer this.  It's only around $900 a month.  So we won't be rich.  But we've taken some cost-saving provisions already:  we've both deferred our college loans for a year until we get settled, and we're dumping the $100/month gym membership.  I think we're going to make it. And I get to work doing the same stuff I've been doing for the past eight months.  (Hooray.)  I don't have to learn whole new jobs.  And when I get back into the workforce, I can list these guys as my employer for longer than just eight months.  (After only six months with the last guys, it'll be good to show some long-term employment again.)  But here's the best part.  I just wrote my own proposal.  I designed it, I pitched it, I negotiated the terms.  This is my project.  I love it when I take chances and they pay off.  Hooray! 6:18:43 AM     Speak up!  []