We've decided to get out of the owning-your-own-business psycho life and pursue a different path. The tricky bit is, in order to pursue a different line of work, DH would need further education. (He wants OUT of the office.) Difficult to manage an education when you've got kids, a house, a car, a debtload...
So the next question is, how can you get training and get paid for it?
The answer is, take a job with the military. You get paid during training, then you have a commitment to work for the military for something like three years, before deciding whether to stay in or to go back to civvie life.
During the 13 weeks of training we'll be at home and he'll be on his own, but after that, depending what trade he gets into and where he goes, we can move to the base with him. The only part I'm dreading is that 13 weeks of single parenting... but my mom and dad live just down the road so that will help. As for the actual time living on the military base, I'm kind of looking forward to it. I've been checking out the most likely base online and there are a LOT of facilities we will be able to take advantage of, moms' groups, kids' groups, a preschool, even a private school if we decided not to homeschool. But there's also a homeschooling support group there.
He's shooting for fall to start basic training, so it looks like we'll be looking at early next year to be moving with him. He's done his aptitude testing and did really well, so well that they'd have liked to have him start the end of next month (ACK). But he can't do it that fast, he has to wrap things up with the store first.
Here's to the future...
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