So Mark got laid off on Friday. The owners brought in new regional sales managers who cleaned house with the sales force and let a bunch of people go. Awesome.
This is a good thing in some ways. The job sucked, he was racking up well over 1500 miles a month on his car (with the gas expense, to boot), and it had zero potential for career growth. In order to be at the top financially he would have had to use unethical sales practices and screwed people over for his own profit. Realistically it was just a stopgap job, which clearly has now run its course.
I'm still pretty freaked out. We know there will be commission checks coming in May and June but have no clue how much money it will be (and his now-former employer has a reputation for monkeying with final commissions). We also know there will be unemployment, but it won't be a lot.
We're in a crappy spot - we have to keep the kids in daycare, or at least hold their spots by paying half tuition. We don't have backup child care who could take the kids full time if we pulled them out entirely and Mark got a job a week later or something, and our daycare always has a waiting list. Yet our financial reserves were depleted last year with hospital bills and we haven't been able to build them up again. He's hitting the pavement hard looking for a decent job, but if he gets hosed on his final commission checks we will be up the proverbial creek - he may have to take anything he can get in order to get an income coming in again.
I'm trying to force myself to stay calm and to tackle this a day/week at a time; I can't let myself worry about what might happen in a month or two or three or I'll make myself nuts.
So yeah, universe - please stop flinging this stuff at us, OK? Maybe let us have a little break, and let Mark get into a job where he can grow and develop a real grownup career? I'm getting really tired of getting slammed around like this.
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