How We Are Handling the Layoff
Continuing with Activities That Keep Us Connected: Experiencing a layoff does not mean your social life should end. In fact, the opposite occurs. Maintaining a sense of normalcy is so important to keeping any of the possible stresses surrounding a layoff to a minimum. Keeping this time together, even if we don’t go out to a play, movie, or dinner, keeps us from feeling deprived and financially and emotionally boxed-in.
Selling Stuff That We Don’t Need: Having a layoff has been a great motivator to reassess what we really needed. I came home one night to find an old laptop that we had been promising to sell for months was sold for $200. That motivated me to clean out my closet to find some gently worn clothes that I can sell for some cash.
Living On One Income: We had talked about living on one income before we married, but never got around to ironing out the specifics. Well, take a layoff to get your mind right about what’s really important with respect to your finances. When my husband starts working again, we will be even more financially comfortable with the extra income because we would have learned to live on less.
Diane Simpson says
Msk Stevens, Precisely the perception we need to recognize and expand our potential and execute our capabilites. I was just about to exit when I noticed..then read this article.
You nailed it with your emotional sense to be jealous- aware that the timing of your husband’s ‘traditional misfortune’ would enable him/family to escalate to Another Level!. It was also paramount that you, woman enough! had insight to Trust GOD and your Better half’s judgement, vision and strength.He Did Not Play.. He Did His Part! $ingle$mart$ister