Major relief

John has work for a month!

I don't know if I've blogged about this before, but John is mostly out of work. He and I are both temps, but I have a long term temp-to-hire position, and he has day-to-day jobs. He normally finds out a day or two in advance if he has work, and it normally only lasts for a day or two. It's been pretty stressful on us, because it's hard to budget and plan when we don't know how much money will be coming in on any given day. We want to start seriously looking at apartments, but we really don't know what we can look at, since we don't have a strong idea of what our steady income will be.

However, for the next month, he's a file clerk. He'll get a regular paycheck, which will help with debt, and put him in a MUCH better position when an apartment complex runs a credit check on us. He can also keep searching for a job while he actually has an income. He's working on setting up an interview right now, so I hope that goes well.

On a really selfish note (to be fair, he brought it up first) I'm glad he'll have a job for Valentine's Day. While yes, some of our more romantic V-days were when we were broke, we were also in college and had a lot more privacy. Plus, this jobless thing has really been a hit on his self-esteem, so being able to take me out is a big deal to him.

I'm just really glad that we're starting to see an upswing for him. Keep your fingers crossed.