How do you feel about the way that we make a living and our respective jobs?

Dear LORD:

Give us perspective in the area of our income. Help us to know how we should behave with respect to money. Give us control over the area of our finances. Amen!

Dearest Ruth:

Your MEQ today was that you were really glad to see me, and you missed me while you were working today. I love it that you want to be with me. I was very glad to see you too!

I am very comfortable with the way that you are helping out in the area of making an income. You are doing fine. I think it is wonderful that you have a place to go to get some outside activity without being too tied to our home. I want your identity to be derived from something other than our house. That is too limiting for you.

I would love to see you branch out into other areas when you are ready. But this is entirely your decision. My position and attitude towards you in the area of your work is that I want to support you as much as possible with whatever you want to do in life.

On the other hand, I am fried in the area of my job, and would love to find an easier and less stressful way of making a living. I have been working on this somewhat. I am in touch with several headhunters. I keep getting nibbles off of LinkedIn. I follow up on those. I have no firm prospects yet, but I feel that this is only a matter of time.

In the meantime, my plan is to soak EMC for all we can get: To do my job well enough to keep them happy and stay employed there, and no more. I probably will not get promoted or much increase in salary, but whatever. I just want to stay there long enough to figure out something else.

Possibilities include:

1. Working for something like Electronic Arts.
2. Working for another storage firm, like Pillar, 3Par or such.
3. Working for Oracle.
4. Something I have not thought of yet.

I have been trading calls with my headhunter. I will let you know what develops.

Bottom line: I need to find another job eventually, but there is no rush on that.

The way I feel about my answer is slightly stressed, but basically OK. It's kind of like how you feel when you have to go to the dentist, but not for a root canal. Just for like a filling. A bit nervous and stressed out in other words.

In general, on your job and career I feel supportive and concerned, but not overly so. Again, I want to set you free to do whatever you want. That is my heart for you. I regard our basic living cost as being my responsibility. Whatever you can do to help out is great, and especially if you can get out of the house and not be too isolated. I mostly just want you to be happy.

I love you!

Love,
Me