jenmsmith
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2016
Well, as the CARES act looks likely to pass, I was thinking about how to spend the money. And was frustrated that it looks like college-aged DS will get no amount. Then DH came home at lunch and announced that he will have to take a pay cut of 15% (no reduction in hours) effective this week. Guess the CARES money will go to making up for the pay cut, at least for a little bit.
I did get choked up and then had to have a perspective reset. We’ve financially set ourselves to weather these kind of things (we went through a big pay cut in 2008-09 that woke us up). And we can tighten our belt and be fine. It is going to mean scaling back vacations, but compared to what so many other people are dealing with, it really isn’t that big of a deal.
Thank you all for being a supportive place on the internet. That’s rare.
I did get choked up and then had to have a perspective reset. We’ve financially set ourselves to weather these kind of things (we went through a big pay cut in 2008-09 that woke us up). And we can tighten our belt and be fine. It is going to mean scaling back vacations, but compared to what so many other people are dealing with, it really isn’t that big of a deal.
Thank you all for being a supportive place on the internet. That’s rare.