Crap... my husband got accepted into the prosthetics program..

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

I just got his acceptance letter in the mail. Recently, he had a change of heart and decided he didn't want to go through with the program. He has been a high school teacher for the last three years in FL, and he's afraid of losing the security of his job. He's worked very hard at it and has become professionally certified. Initially, he wanted a career change, but now he doesn't want it. If he does the prosthetics program he'll have to quit his job and move to CT. We would be living off of student loans primarily if we did this, which is rough.

He is very seriously considering becoming a school administrator instead. He's already got enough teaching experience, but he would need to get a master's degree. Getting a master's in Educational Leadership would still require us to take out some more student loans (my husband still has $24,000 left to pay off from his bachelor's program), but not nearly as many because he could still earn income as a teacher at the same time. We also wouldn't have to move in order for him to get a master's in Educational Leadership because there are several programs available for this in our area already.

To top it all off, it's very possible I might be able to get a teaching job (very similar to husband's job teaching engineering technology) for the fall. I have an interview tomorrow. The school is very nice and I'm excited about the prospect of going back to work again after staying home with my son for over a year now.

My husband was kind of hoping he didn't get in that way he wouldn't feel like he had a choice. He is still very interested in a career in prosthetics, and I know that he would be very good at it as well. I think if we didn't have our son that he would definitely take the opportunity and the risks involved with it. It mostly comes down to financial stability for our family, and we think that we would be better off financially sticking around here and working on furthering his already established career instead of starting a new one. It kind of sucks because I was hoping to move to CT to be closer to ME, which is where my family lives and where I grew up. I've decided that I can deal with living in FL as long as we get to see my family once a year (either they visit us or we visit them).

Also, the father of one of my husband's former students is a VP of a prosthetics company. This guy has been trying very hard to recruit my husband into the field and he has really helped out a lot with getting him into this school. It's also going to suck for my husband to have to tell him that he is declining the opportunity.

It's kind of funny how everything seems to happen all at once. Are we crazy or what?

[mike_c]

1. take the red pill....

Change is good.