I can guarantee you most of you won't understand this and will have a billion questions for me. I will answer most, if not all of them. It all started at the end of baseball season. There were a few jobs that caught Gary's eye. One of them was with New Hsmpshire Fisher Cats as their Director of Ticket. He applied and they offered. Life was great! Bigger market. Closer to a big city. Then we couldn't find a place to live, and had to not accepted the job. We were both crushed.
Many people questioned us as if there was more to do. No, really people that was it. We had out in our applications to so many places it wasn't even funny. After a while it was a little annoying because most people who were asking weren't close with us and were being nosy. I guess that's what we also get for putting our lives on social media.
During the time that we were suppose to be going to NH, I put in my two weeks at my job. I really didn't think that they would be letting me go the same day but they did. It was bittersweet because I was shocked that they would do that because I wasn't going to a competitor, but it was nice to be out of the environment. I still hold some issues with that because I wouldn't be in our current situation if I didn't put in my notice. But how much is my sanity worth?
About 5 weeks of me not having a job, my loving husband asked if I wanted to work in sports again. I told him I would love to but look where we live. There is only 1 sports team, and they probably won't hire me because of my last name. He told me I should look, but I wasn't really on board with that because if it was far away we would have 2 rents, 2 sets of bills, etc. I asked what about going to Iowa. I have family there and let's ask them their thoughts.
After some conversations with our extended family, Gary and I talked with the decision made I would be moving to Iowa. We need 2 incomes in our family to pay the bills, and there are NO jobs in West Virginia. I went to all the staffing agencies there, and went on 5 interviews during that time. I was in Iowa and in 2 days I went on more interviews than that.
When I talk to friends and family about it the first questions is usually about marriage. I get that this doesn't make sense to a lot of people, but really people do you think I am going to bad mouth my husband in front of you. Do you really think I am going to open up to some of you that I rarely speak to about my marriage? Then some people do you really think I am going to say anything to you for you to twist around to start rumors? Come on people. I know that some people might really care, and the answer is yes. My marriage is fine! We just need 2 incomes, and WV isn't cutting it. Gary loves his job, and I am so happy for him. I want to find that in my life. I want a job that I love coming to and seeing myself moving up in the industry. I think I would that with my job in Iowa. (I work at a local gym in memberships.)
I just wish people would leave everything alone on why we decided to move to Iowa. Just accept it. If you want to know anything just ask me. And if you ask me you have to take it as the truth.
