The Winds of Change

My D.H. started his new job today. He will be a 911 Dispatcher, which is a job of considerably more import than anything he's done up to this point. People's lives will be on the line. He's not yet arrived home, but he called on his lunch break and sounded very positive. The change wrought in the last few days just by the simple knowledge that come the beginning of the week he had a job has been profound. The glower and grump and depression has lifted, and he seems to walk with new purpose. He will have much to learn, as this is a field he knows nearly nothing about. But the training is nationally certified, so it will truly be something positive and useful and, above all, different to add to his resume. He will likely be working the graveyard shift once he completes his training in a month or so, which is fine by him on most fronts. He's something of an insomniac anyway, and it would leave him time to go back to school. He speaks now of "when" he goes back to school rather than "if", which is a subtle semantic shift with far reaching implications. So it looks like we will be staying here for the foreseeable future--provided I can find a job, of course. I'm still working on that.

Being a writer, I specialize in envisioning the possibilities. And I see such wonderful things for the next few years. We've had quite a bit of turbulance and hard times these past few years that everyone agrees it's time for a break! With my unexpected completion of grad school at the master's level rather than the PhD, my husband has an opportunity to go back to school and finish his degree (something I dearly desire). He has a chance to build up some job history at the same job for a few years (which will do a great deal to reverse the impression given by his current resume which has him apparently job hopping--though there were reasons for all). I will have the opportunity to give my brain a bit of a break and focus on my writing once and for all. And we'll be well on our way to getting entirely debt free. The winds of change appear to be blowing. Now I just need to unfurl my sails and take advantage.