A few posts back, I was sharing with you about a job change my husband was experiencing during these economically turbulent times, about our trip to Delaware on an interview, and so on….click the “tag” under the title of this post that says “Boomer Life Changes” to find those posts.
Bottom line, hubby has found a job here in NJ, we don’t have to move, and are so thankful for this. He finished his present job yesterday and starts the new, and hopefully more stable one, on Monday.
Also, in order to keep this blog focused more on my Boomer & New Jersey life, I’ve started a more personal blog, something I’ve wanted to do for a while, that can be just about anything in my life, my heart, my thoughts. You’ll by clicking Claudia’s Chronicles.
Last Saturday hubby and I packed a few things, hopped in the car, and hit the road for the few-hour drive to the location of his potential new job. We were being put up in a nice hotel for a night, but since we went down a day earlier, chose a much less expensive hotel for the night on Saturday. Then we spent the day Sunday driving the area to see what we thought. We saw potential in some places, and didn’t care much for others.
Monday hubby was to be interviewed, all Sunday night he tossed and turned, then headed out for the interview, after a delicious breakfast provided by the hotel. A few hours later he called, excited, saying that all went well and he knew most of the people who interviewed him. They would contact him within the week. All day as we drove around gathering apartment rental books and real estate books he talked about how he really wanted to get into this company, how beautiful it was, on and on he talked. I listened, and thought about how hard it would be to leave everyone and everything familiar and move, but for the most part kept that to myself, wanting to support him during this challenging time in his life. The drive home was a difficult one, the traffic was not good, but we made the best of it and arrived home safely.
Here we are at Tuesday morning (no FREE internet access where we were, so took a vacation from the computer), and my dear husband just called a short while ago to say he already found out that he was not chosen. My heart sinks, feeling for him…he did all he could to sound unconcerned, but I know when he comes home he’s going to collapse in his recliner, and have to work through a lot of emotional feelings…and he has a tough road ahead, it’s not easy getting a job when you’re in you 50’s. We trust God will provide…but the waiting is tough at times, and with the economy as it is…
So for now, it looks like I’ll remain a NEW JERSEY Baby Boomer, and even though the idea of moving was hard to imagine, my feelings are a bit confused right now. I will keep on posting our journey.
Most of us who call ourselves Baby Boomers have been through our share of changes. I have passed through some of the most common ones, including the painful experience of losing a dear parent; raising two children to adulthood and realizing that the “mommy” role that I took so seriously and poured my life into is no longer what it was; watching my husband experience the physical challenges of diabetes and a heart attack; looking in the mirror and watching the the face that looks back at me change; supporting my husband as he went through the painful experience of realizing that after thirty years devoted to one company, surprise, he is dispensable, and now of at an age where there’s a tendency to go from one job to the other without settling, and what about retirement? Is it possible?
That brings us to our newest change, which could be looked at as a negative, or embraced as a new and exciting adventure, it’s up to us what we decide to do with it. It may mean a move from our home of 25 years, the home where I raised my babies, and how can I be the “New Jersey Baby Boomer” if we leave NJ? It may mean leaving behind friends of many years, and being further away from my now-grown babies than I want to be. It may not happen at all!
I want to take you along on this personal journey and intertwine it with the usual New Jersey info on this blog, and let you get to know me a bit better. More later this week!
