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The day after I got my benefits letter and learned of another dollar per hour drop in pay, my husband, who works for a government-contracted company, tells me that the (uneducated, very average) wife of his coworker got hired on as a janitor (making more than me) and took a FORK LIFT class and now has been promoted and gotten a $7 PER HOUR raise. I am supposed to leave on vacation in a few minutes. All I want to do is cry. It isn't even about the money at this point. My self-esteem just can't take much more.
And yes I had thought about trying to get on there also, but the facility is about 30 miles in the country and totally secure - no phone calls in except for emergency. We have a child still at home and I felt one of us needed to be available to her. I am a great mother, but that isn't much comfort to me right at this moment. I just feel like a loser.