I could easily spend an extra grand a month on computers and related equipment. Karen could easily spend a grand on the grandkids, and another grand on her kids. In fact, we would do this anyway, even if we don't have the money.
So.... we win the lottery. Karen would quit her job immediately... she doesn't have any fun at work, and wouldn't miss the place a bit. I would cut down to four nights every two weeks. First thing to do with the money would be to pay off all of our debts. Then invest the rest and draw interest, enough to pay the bills and taxes and insurance, but not buy the groceries.
So, according to the scheme here, all I would have to do is clear about $3,700.00 a month.
Well, shit, that don't work out worth a damn. I don't make that now. Karen and I together don't make that now. What has gone wrong here?
Maybe I could get Karen to spend, say, maybe only $500/month on the grandkids and $500/month on the kids. Yeah, she would bitch a lot about it, but it would probably work. Especially if we paid off all of the kids debts out of the initial principle....
Yeah, we could make it work out.
Or I could learn how to be a plumber, and work one day a week...
I might even be able to make money in another way, say, on the web somehow, if I didn't want to xray people anymore.
Ah, but that's the crux... I really can't imagine not wanting to take x-rays of people. I really don't think that anything short of the physical inability to do that would keep me from doing that. I love my work. I don't always like it, on a day by day, patient by patient basis. Heck, I've even went two days in a row once when I didn't really like it.
Not doing x-rays?
I am doing useful work that I do well and love doing. The patients that I work with and the other people that I work with appreciate my skills and talent.
What the hell more could a guy want?
This is being posted on the 17th. Go to yesterday if you need to know why. Hell, go there anyway if you haven't already been there and are coming here from there. Goofy pills working great!
A little update....
Flame wars on both of the on-line-journal lists that I'm on. Kinda interesting, but mostly boring. People are saying about what I expect them to say, and others are reacting... not always appropriately, but within the bounds that I expect them to, having read their journals. One journaler, it seems, has packed up her site and gone home. I hate to see that happen, no matter how I feel about their journal. It's a big web, and there is room for everyone who wants to be here. But everything is very public, and there are some drawbacks to that, expecially for the thin-skinned among us.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Hmmmm...
"What would you do if you had a steady source of money that was almost enough to support yourself? That is, you do not have to work full time, and you only need to earn a bit of money to top up the income. What would you do to earn money? What would you do with the rest of the time? Would you stay at your current job?"
First off, I would express thanks to the agency/institution who has made this possible. Then I would probably continue working nights at the hospital, but not so many. Maybe four-in-a-row instead of seven. A lot of this would depend on some different factors, specifically, how hard I wanted to work for my toys.
Not working at a hospital?
Not working night shift?
Nah.
The goofy pills work great for about eight hours. Which is OK, since I'm supposed to take them every eight hours. So I've been sleeping on and off, and I am remaining relatively pain-free. Of course, I'm not doing anything strenuous at all, nor do I intend to.