A New Experience For Us

Vicki had a job interview yesterday, and it went so well that she starts a new position on Monday! It's contract work (which is what she wants), but because it came together so quickly (the company in question needs someone right away) they've asked to do a 2-week contract to start. At the end of the 2 weeks, they'll determine if they want to sign her to a longer term agreement.

So when she heads into work on Monday morning, it'll be a first for us. In the entire time we've known each other (almost 23 years now), there's never been a time when she was working and I wasn't. We've had the reverse - she's had a few periods of unemployment since becoming a contractor - but never the scenario where she was making money and I was a deadbeat. Until now.

Of course, that means that the pressure's on me now. Vicki's demonstrated that she's still marketable, even in a severely-depressed economy. But am I?