Good for you! Yay! deb :) On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:06 PM, ExtremeRyno <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was unemployed for a while this time last year. The same week I got > laid off, my wife was fired from her job. We had to sell our house > and we traded our truck in for an econo-box at a lower payment. We > were down to our last $100 in savings when I finally got a call and > picked up a new job. Luckily my wife got herself another job shortly > before me. We were strapped for cash, but we tightened our belts and > sucked it up until it was over. In total, I was out of a job for > about 5 months and she was out for just under 3. > > Things are just now getting back to normal (budget wise)...and getting > better. > > With all the unemployment going on, I figured I'd share my "good" > news. I got accepted into a program with my school district where > they're going to pay for me to get a Masters and a Principal's > Certification. Out of the 400 or so people who applied, I was one of > the 20 selected for the program. This means I'll be working for the > district for the next year and a half while they pay for the Masters, > and then I get a mandatory 5 year contract (so they get their money's > worth out of me). So I've got a steady job for almost the next seven > years. > > On top of that, we're paying off our car this month so no more car > payments. We got my wife and son switched to new health insurance so > we're saving $700 a month on that. We also got some news from our car > insurance company and we're going to be saving about $350 a year on > car insurance. > > All this happened in the past week and a half.
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