Sacrifice....

No not another baseball post! It has been one year since the move to Indy and things are going great. With only one setback in my opinion.

I actually love my work now. I always did in the past but there was always something the company was doing to fuck us over in Rochester. We had to worry about scheduling problems, suspensions, unneeded overtime, layoffs, cut backs, your usual job stuff.

Here in Indy I come in and do my job, collect my paycheck and go home. I am not to worried about what the people upstairs are doing and they are not worried about what I am doing. I do what they pay me to do, take on any extra projects they send my way, come in for OT when available and make sure I am on time and stay until my shift ends. Pretty simple.

Life life is going great too. We now have a beautiful home and live in a very nice community. We are very active in the sports scene, I've coached 2 teams and the boy has played on 3 since moving out here. The school's are another thing. In New York we were active and known in the boys schools. Here the schools are HUGE! And while the kids are well cared for, the parents get lost in the shuffle. That, however, is fine with us, we've been class parents and schools helpers in the past but I like the closeness of coaching with the boy and the wife enjoys just their time together after school.

Which gets us to our one 'setback' and title of this outing. When we got here last year my wife left behind a 12 year career at Blockbuster Video ending in a District Manager position, then a corporate screw. So she started anew and was swamped with offers. She ended up taking a Branch Manager for a non-traditional bank. Great money, good upward movement potential, crappy hours. So after almost a year of working 60 hours a week, EVERY WEEK. She decided to take a look around. With my schedule set (10:30am-6:30pm) and her branch not closing till 7:30pm our poor son was at Grandma's from 3pm till after 7pm every day. Not that grandma's is bad but we did not move to Indy so my parents could raise our son. So the wife found a new job with a traditional bank. Similar position, less pay, Better hours. So now it is time to tighten the belts so we can enjoy more time as a family! The boy is home with mom by 5:45 and we can have dinner between 6:30 and 7:00 instead of 8:00 to 9:00. We can get up in the morning as a family and eat breakfast and do that "TV Family" thing were no one is tired and everyone breaks from the breakfast table like a football huddle and makes a move to school, work, gym with love you's and see you tonights!!!!

One year down, many more to go, and I like the outlook.