I am very lucky.  I have worked 2 part time jobs for several years now.  Not because we depend on it to keep our bills paid, but mostly because of the emotional ties to each.  I work at the church in the mornings, and at my husband's office in the afternoon.  He is the office manager for a trucking company and does all the dispatching, as well as other various things.  I have helped with the paper work area. 

Finacially, he has been able to pay all the bills, like electric, gas, phone, cell phones, insurances, camper payments, etc.  I assumed the responsibility of making the payments on our Explorer -- which I paid off, and we have since then sold it.  I also assumed the responsibility of making the house payments.  We have like 8 payments left, and I'll be done with that.  So, if something were to happen to one of these jobs, we would still be OK. 

That  something has happened.  David and our boss have talked about it for quite a while now.  And David and I have talked about it extensively as well.  The bottom line is, the boss at the trucking company wanted his new wife (of a year -- 3rd wife), involved more in the trucking.  Number one, because she is his wife, and before marrying him, she had managed a McDonald's for 25 years.  So, she is very capable of doing what I do. Number two, they need to cut expenses within the trucking company.  They have to pay me.  He doesn't have to pay his wife.   Kinda a no brainer.

However, this guy is not "wired to fire".  Knowing his thoughts and feelings of what he wanted done, but had a hard time firing someone (his words) did a good job and he had never had a problem with, I let him know I was a team player, and I would bow out gracefully if that is what he needed me to do.   I make a little bit of money on the computer, so now I have to put my money where my mouth is, and make this work.   I no longer work at what was my afternoon job.  I'm not worried though.  With the health issues I have been having, its a relief not having to work full time.  I would really like to pursue the "working at home" opportunities.  I'm not sure medical assistant training school but I would be willling to take a shot at it, if I needed to.  I really don't want to venture back out into the working world to pursue employment.  The two part times I've had both have personal ties ... my church and my husband.   Going into a "real" job, that is that -- just a job -- I really don't want to do that at this time.  So, I'm going to treat my time in the afternoons like a "job", and see what I can do to make this happen -- here at home.

Things might be changing for me.  And if they do, I hope I can make it all work.  I work with my husband in the afternoons, at a trucking company that he dispatches for.  Our boss is newly married, and he would like to have his wife more involved.  So, David is between a rock and a hard place of knowing what to do.  He knows which would work better, but that doesn't give the boss what he wants.  So, we are thinking about me bowing out gracefully, and just working at the church in the mornings.  David has faith in me that I can keep the computer work I do working, and since I would have the extra time, maybe step it up a bit, and earn even more.  I've been looking at a lot of different blogs that are strictly review-type sites.  Product reviews, diet pill reviews, electric kitchen gadget reviews, baby product reviews ... just all different kinds.  Its something I am going to think about -- but not even consider doing it until I cross that bridge of not being employed in the afternoons.