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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s October basically. Another month.

DH is getting demoralized after calling in every network he could. He is desperate to find his next play in tech sales, but nothing is coming through.

We may have to sell our house if no job by January. Move back in with my parents which I know will be really really hard in their small house with all 4 of us. [/quote]

He needs to take any job he can get.  Where is your savings?[/quote]

What else can sales guys do? Before tech sales he was a bartender, studied journalism in college. [/quote]

It sounds like this is the problem. He lacks the skill and experience.  He can go back to bartending.  Anything is better than nothing.[/quote]

He’s been in tech sales 8 years, can turn back now.

He’s way too old to bartend.  What about gov contracting?  I just want something stable; he’s changed jobs every year and now this layoff, the money was great but clearly not at FU money so kind of a roller coaster. [/quote]

Too old to bartend???  What kind of ageist BS is that?  And gov't contracting is the opposite of stable.  I think you both might need a reality check.  My husband would get a job mopping floors at 7-11 if that's what it took to put food on the table.  And you can walk into an interview and hold your head high and say that you took what you could while looking cuz that's better than sitting around doing nothing; they don't care that job hunting can be a full time job.  They see a resume gap and what to know what was up.  Telling them you were sitting around waiting, only looking for one type of job shows a lack of flexibility and adaptability.  Beggars can't be choosers.[/quote]

But we neee a professional salary to keep food on the table. Waiting tables and earning $20/hr will not extend our runway at all. We live in California, so our crummy townhouse costs $1.5M — that’s a huge chunk of change — we need $60k after tax just to cover mortgage.  A $41k pretax job is foolish — he needs to be hustling for the next sales job not burning time and energy for months to buy is 1 more weeks of mortgage payments. [/quote]

You want, you don’t need. [/quote]

Okay we want to not have our home foreclosed? We might even be underwater since SF real estate is down. [/quote]

Then you both have to hustle and take new jobs, or two jobs and make it work.  You choose to buy an expensive house and not save so the consequence of your failure to plan is this.  You could never afford that house. Sell it and move to something more affordable.[/quote]

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