At 45... what am I crazy? No... I'm a victim of my own success is what I am.
I am the IT Program Manager for the Oncology Department of my local health system. For the past 20 years I have been chasing money. At 40-60K a year my quality of life improved. At 60-80K a year it worstened. At 90+ it seems dismal. I am the middle class, and it is not pretty.
Well... thankfully, because of my success I have good intel that tomorrow I will be getting laid off. My wife and I both work for the same hospital, her job pays roughly 1/3 of what I make, but she takes home 1/2 of what I make. I am also a per diem FF/AEMT and I make roughly 1/4 in a 12 hour shift I make at my "day job" but I take home roughly 2/3's of what I take home at my day job for a single shift. See where this is going... unless you can make over $150K a year for a family of four you are peeing in the wind my friends. Peeing in the wind.
So... I have been applying for per diem jobs in my neighboring towns as well as a couple of teaching opportunities and by this time tomorrow, I may be 100% career Fire and EMS albeit with mostly per diem and part time shift work.
Part of my severance would allow me to pay off most of my debt except my mortgage and will give me 16 weeks of pay to "transition" into my new life.
Is it common for career guys to just do per diem work?
I am the IT Program Manager for the Oncology Department of my local health system. For the past 20 years I have been chasing money. At 40-60K a year my quality of life improved. At 60-80K a year it worstened. At 90+ it seems dismal. I am the middle class, and it is not pretty.
Well... thankfully, because of my success I have good intel that tomorrow I will be getting laid off. My wife and I both work for the same hospital, her job pays roughly 1/3 of what I make, but she takes home 1/2 of what I make. I am also a per diem FF/AEMT and I make roughly 1/4 in a 12 hour shift I make at my "day job" but I take home roughly 2/3's of what I take home at my day job for a single shift. See where this is going... unless you can make over $150K a year for a family of four you are peeing in the wind my friends. Peeing in the wind.
So... I have been applying for per diem jobs in my neighboring towns as well as a couple of teaching opportunities and by this time tomorrow, I may be 100% career Fire and EMS albeit with mostly per diem and part time shift work.
Part of my severance would allow me to pay off most of my debt except my mortgage and will give me 16 weeks of pay to "transition" into my new life.
Is it common for career guys to just do per diem work?