Job Offer

For the past 4 years Dustin has pretty much disliked his job.  Sadly he is not doing what he wishes he was doing and feels like he is becoming obsolete because he is doing work that isn't relevant outside nuclear facilities.  He is not challenged nearly enough.  The work environment is harsh with coworkers with foul mouths and different values.  And to top it off he spends close to 3 hours on a bus every day commuting out to the desert.

I on the other hand love his job.  He is always home at the same time, it is a secure job, they have good pay, great benefits (90/10), good retirement and we figured close to 7 weeks of time off every year!!

However, I want him to be happy.  After talking with my brother for a few minutes one night, he realized he knew somebody hiring and got the information to Dustin.  He sent his resume in on Sunday had a call by Monday and interviewed on Friday.  The following Monday he had a job offer.  It was a $12000 annual pay decrease but we decided to pray on it and try to find every possible way we might could make it work out.  The business is about 7 minutes from our house, great guys and environment - it was very intriguing.  After I about had a nervous break down about taking such a decrease in pay and benefits we decided we needed to turn it down.  We greatly missed his dad.  He always had such great council in times like this.

It was tough.  If Dustin was a bachelor he said he would have taken it in a heartbeat, but he is a responsible dad and husband and was looking after our needs before his own.

2 weeks passed and he received an email to call the guy back.  He called him and he offered to give him the pay Dustin originally asked for which was still a $5000 annual pay decrease.  But with potential bonuses.  We were excited and thought for sure it would work out and we would change jobs.  Again we prayed and attended the temple and studied it and studied it and studied it some more.  Dustin even went and counseled with the bishop.  My conclusion was to trust my husband would make the correct decision for our family.  It was making him crazy because he was having a hard time receiving an answer.  We thought maybe the Lord was letting us make the decision because either one was good. 

Truthfully I was a little hung up on the fact that the insurance had a much higher premium, 75/25 coverage and only 2 weeks total time off through the year.  I knew I had received an answer to have a baby for the last few months and was waiting on Dustin to get this answer.  After we were talking one night I realized maybe I was praying against him.  I was praying he would make the correct decision but would also keep in mind the baby. I also realized that possibly we would have a separate deductible for maternity and looked it up.  Sure enough, $7500 maternity deductible.  It was as though we had found our answer.  We also studied that night stuper of though because his mom had counceled him of this and I had read it in D&C 9 that morning.  As we reviewed what this means we realized we knew what we had to do.  It was painful but we followed our heart in faith that all things would work out.