Sitting here at the moment trying not to work myself into a panic while waiting to hear how things go for my husband today. Everyone has to deal with other's opinions of them at work. Whether it's how your boss views your work or what your coworkers think of your ethics/politics. Even I am under the heavy thumb of trying to appease/impress customers every day. Unfortunately for my husband, the opinions he has to uphold are those of shitty parents who all want their precious snowflake children to be molded into perfect musicians. In the instance of some though, there's some parenting missing that makes teaching the kids anything almost impossible.

And those, of course, are the parents who have voiced their negative opinions of him the loudest. To the point where his current employer is looking at letting him go. He'll be talking with the owner of the business today...basically going in to beg to keep a job that he no longer enjoys anyways. It's the best option we have for paying rent at the moment though and there's no other real bright alternatives on the horizon as far as different employment opportunities go.

Through all this, I also have in mind the burden of our looming medical bills. My husband has also been struggling with high blood pressure along with some other ailments as of late. Which has resulted in several visits to clinics and doctors. He's got it all pretty well settled at this point, so now we just kind of have to wait for the bills to start rolling in from all the various tests and what not. It was already a concern weighing on my mind...but now, with the threat of him losing his job, it's a truly frightening concept.

It seems like a drop in the bucket to even mention, but there's also the consideration that Thanksgiving is almost upon us. Afterwards, I have to start looking into Christmas gifts for friends and family. Or...maybe we won't be able to this year depending on what happens... Which is a sad thought. We never have a ton of money to throw at gifts anyways, but I've never had to worry about not being able to spare a dime towards them. I've also never really had to consider stepping back down to a smaller apartment with a cheaper monthly rent. And potentially losing some of our pets along the way depending on the regulations of whatever place we would move to. The list goes on and on...

So, yeah...we'll just have to wait and see what the news is when he gets home...

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Thought I'd tack on a little update to this, since my husband just messaged me. Sounds like the whole idea of letting him go was less about him personally and more about the company trying to scale back [as so many are doing now]. He has about another month and a half to work there, so we'll have to hope that by Christmas he'll have found another job.