Let The Debates Begin

Blame it all on my wife. It’s her idea and as typical a result of her tendency to change the subject when she doesn’t like where things are going.

It all began when I raised the subject of our financial future and began (once again) suggesting that the day is coming that she will have to go back to work.

We are both naturally introverts. A better description of me might be multiple personalities however as I have found it possible to come out of my shell or at least appear to do so when needed. Jill continues to stay where it’s safe and this in a large part is what I believe prevents her from taking a step back into the world of working.

Don’t get me wrong, if I could I would stay home all day too. In many ways it must be nice having near total freedom to choose how you spend your time. But hey, we are quickly approaching the end of our income generating years. If we are going to be sustained in the end we have to accumulate enough wealth while we can.

Look, it’s contagious, I’m off topic too! To her credit she had a part-time (very part-time) gig last year that evaporated when her employer was canned. Jill thought it was ideal and would like to have something similar.

When we began discussing her work life, or lack thereof, I pointed out there are options to a regular job. Part-time is fine as a long as it comes with a paycheck.
My point was there are other options but you have to actually go out and find them or make them, she could do medical transcription, work retail, start her own at-home business and then that’s when once again I made a mistake; I suggested she start a blog!

Now let’s be real blogging for money is rarely successful. But if she could come up with a good niche that would attract a lot of people she should make a few bucks sitting at home while readers clicked on here ad links or she could do some paid posts to promote products.

Next thing I know the idea was transformed from a potential money maker to this! One more thing for me to do and another bill to cover. Let’s face it a blog with two people bantering is doomed to be a financial drain but hey maybe it’s a first step to getting her to do something with more potential.

On the other hand, maybe at least 2 or 3 people will read this and agree, I am right and she is wrong!

Vindication may be only a few more clicks away!

Let’s back up a little here. This is uncharted territory for me – I just recently started reading blogs. Yes, you could say I’m a late-bloomer. In the tortoise/hare analogy, I am clearly the tortoise. I take things slowly and am careful to dot my ‘i’s and cross my ‘t’s along the way. I am not a techno-genius by any means (and yet I’m the only one in the house who knows how to change the ink in the printer, go figure)! My son and husband live the Magic School Bus motto – take chances, make mistakes, get messy. When you are the one cleaning up behind these go-getters (literally or figuratively), you tend to approach things more cautiously and rationally. So, when the subject of us starting a blog post came up – as scared and uncertain as I was, I found it to be a character-building moment when I took a leap of faith and said “Sure, let’s do it”.

So, why are we doing this blog? Can I say to get Jack off my back? That wouldn’t be completely truthful. I guess part of me wanted to see what the attraction is that has Jack sitting at the computer for hours at a time. So, the altruistic side of me could claim that I wanted to share an experience with my husband – have something over which to bond and discuss (aside from the house, car, bills, and kids of course). There’s a little truth to both statements. Is there a small part of me that would love to have this endeavor generate enough money to get Jack off the “It’s time to go back to work” monologue? Yes, yes and finally, yes! But the tortoise here realizes that isn’t all that realistic – so let’s just consider this a way for me to become more in touch with everything going on outside what Jack calls my “bon bon & soap opera world”. But that is for another post . . . man don’t get me started on that one. And for the record, I don’t watch soap operas . . . anymore. And, I’ve never had a bon bon in my life . . . yet.

So, sit back, enjoy the ride (I intend to), and let’s learn a little about ourselves along the way. Hopefully, you’ll find more often than not . . . that he’s wrong and I’m right.