It was all going so well until...
Life was on an even keel Chez theAccidentalSM until Thursday. Work was a usual driving me nuts and as usual I'm playing catch up today in the office but that's par for the course.
No, the bombshell was of course YSS. He's lost his job. He says its due to cut backs in the marketing department but I think that he just wasn't working out. There have been little hints in some of the comments he's made about work. Like his boss saying "You should really have a job in sales. It would suit your personality better" and Human Resources wanting to have a chat with him (In my observations of corporate life this is a death knell)
The main problem is that he doesn't want to do the boring stuff.
Well welcome to the real world YSS - we all have to do boring stuff. For example, I'm spending Saturday knocking up some slide templates for a bunch of Finance directors who should have a skills to do this themselves (They are paid enough).
DH is annoyed but isn't talking about it much. DH has threatened to try to get YSS a sales job at his company's head quarters which is about a 6 hour drive from us in a rural backwater. (I must not fixate on this option. It may never happen)
Any thoughts on how to convince DH to "help" YSS with his job search?
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HRNYC, my dilemma is less
HRNYC, my dilemma is less about DH pulling in a favour or two and more about whether it is morally right for me to want YSS to move 6 hours away. He is 19 and while he looks as healthy as an ox he has soooo many health issues (He has a neurologist, cardiologist, urologist, psychiatrist and general pracitioner :jawdrop: ). If he was academic he would be gone and at university even with his laundry list of ills.
LOL. There are doctors
LOL. There are doctors there. I call it a backwater becuase we live in a mega city but it is only 15 miles from a big town and its only another 9 to a big city. I don't know what the public transport is like and YSS is medically barred from driving.
You are right about independance. It might also help his maturity. Plus DH has to spend a couple of days a month at this location as part of his work so it would ease the transition.
And I'd get my study and guest bedroom back!
In the country where we live
In the country where we live insurance isn't an issue so it takes that worry off the table. We'd be bankrupt at this stage if we lived in the US. Travel insurance for YSS for a short trip costs more than mine with winter sports and full international for a year.
Its less about enabling the skid and more about whether I'm morally wrong to use this as a way to get him out of the house.
I'll mention the personality testing to DH. He'll have to decide as I'm 90% disengaged. I only do the occassional proding and then have started to vent here to stop me getting involved.
Agree with you on raising kids right. My mom's mantra was "Only boring people are bored". This was generally followed by "Read a book if you have nothing else to do" LOL.