Day 118 – You want to be a what?

When I officially decided to retire and stay home for a while the agreement in my house was that I would have two years (minimum) to figure out what I wanted to do.  At that time, I predicted that after those two years Doug would either be so happy to have someone running house stuff full time that I would not have to go back to work or that he would become envious of my new lifestyle and “quality time” with the boys and decide to be a teacher.  Out of the blue last night I get from Doug, “I looked it up and teachers in this area average $??K/year, so if I decided to be a teacher, you would have to go back to work and probably give some stuff up.”  In my head, “Oh like give up your boat and your motorcycle and your annual trip to Vermont with friends? And if you have time to look up average salaries maybe you should also be looking up what actual qualifications you have to have to pull this off.”   I already gave up my house cleaners, my yard guy, my online grocery shopping.  In reality I think Doug would be a great teacher and if it is really what he wants to do I’ll of course support him (emotionally not necessarily financially).  With that said, I did not anticipate his “job wondering” to start so soon.  It has only been 118 days!  Keep bringing home the bacon big guy, I’m only on chapter one of How to make a living without a Job.