Hey guys. Since you've all stuck with me through the work saga, I thought it was time for a little off topic update.
They haven't scheduled interviews yet which is fine because now I have some serious thinking to do.
A teller from my branch went to the branch I'm looking at a little over a year and a half ago. She was a really nice girl, very dedicated, hard worker, and was promoted to another supervisory position.
She's friends with a teller that still works in my branch every Saturday. So this past Saturday, I asked her how her friend felt about the branch I've been looking at.
Verdict is...not good.
And this girl knows me very well. We've worked together for the past two years so I feel like she has a handle on what I'm like. She told me the girl who went to the other branch is not happy. That as supervisor she is constantly having to remind everyone of everything and ends up doing a ton of the work herself. Uh, oh. Not sounding good. Where I am right now, I'm very happy. We all work very well together as a team, and we laugh a lot. I mean a lot. We're a little crazy, and we have our moments but we all mesh very well. Top it all of with the girl who went to this branch is now trying to leave, that's how unhappy she is there. She actually said to me, "Knowing you, I think you'd be ten times more stressed at that branch than you are here." And it wasn't with attitude, it was simple fact, and I appreciated her honesty.
So, I'm sort of stuck. I had a serious heart to heart with DH and said, in reality, I don't really want to work more, I just want our health insurance not to be an issue. We agreed the best course of action would be for him to ask his employer to pick up some of the burden. If we could get them to cover half our insurance, like the bank does for me, then our salaries wouldn't be affected, and since I'd be covered under him, it wouldn't matter when we try to get pregnant, or if I qualify for FMLA since he'd carry the insurance and remain working.
I also got to stay home with DS for a year, and would like to do that with our potential next child. Especially if I'm nursing. I know women do it all the time and go to work and pump...I pumped exclusively for nine months anyway since DS wouldn't nurse...but I just feel it would be nice to have that time with new baby...and if DH and I were the ultimate planners...which we try to be, it would be really nice if that year off fell when DS went to kindergarten. This way, I would be home with new baby, and not have to worry about any before or after school care for DS, and my work schedule wouldn't be an issue with getting home on to/off of the bus, etc. Now, technically DS won't hit kindergarten until the tail end of 2010. So there's time. I could go back and forth on this one...there are so many perks to working at the bank, it might be worth it to stay and ask for a reduction in hours. I think minimum for part time is 20.
So I went online and fiddled with the direct deposit for my paycheck so that I'm contributing more to our various savings accounts and less is getting deposited into the checking...because in order to do this whole stay home scenario, we'd need to try and bank most of my salary, pretending it didn't exist to build up a nice sahm fund for potential next child.
And I guess this really isn't off topic because the way I think through life is actually very similar to the way that I agonize over my
Disney vacations! DH and I even discussed not going this year...for about five seconds...and then said, nah. We want the cool as all get out last hurrah, big splurge vacation. And then, my friends, we'll buckle down...but until then...
I refuse to not indulge the family I have now just because I think we may want to do such and such later. Because even though I try to plan all these things, you never know what turn life will take.
I think DF will like this costume idea much better then Eeyore. Hehehe, though he did say he would wear the tail, "if you can't come up with anything better." Which was followed by a big ol' sigh.
