WAH Wednesdays – the freelance freefall

Last night, Meaghan, Emma and I were watching a show on tv and a bunch of people jumped out of an airplane. We talked about how working as a parachute tester would probably suck, and I said if I didn’t have any kids, I’d probably like to go skydiving for the thrill.

I’m sure you’re wondering how that relates to working at home. This isn’t part three of my recent How Moms can make money online series – I still have to finish writing that, honestly – but I had to interject in the series for an official announcement.

Last Monday morning, Ron walked into his boss’s office, shut the door and laid a resignation letter on his desk. “I was hoping you’d hold out until Christmas,” his boss sighed. Ron’s been having a really hard time not grinning his face off at work. To make it an easier transition, as there are some projects he doesn’t want to leave in a lurch, he’s spreading out those two weeks – ten days, really – over five weeks, so two corporate work days a week.

To be fair, he’s not coming home just to “help” me with my work. We passed that point a while ago, and you can pretty much tell we’re in this together. Hmm, that’s probably why we’re known as Ron AND Andrea – you get one or the other, but more likely both. Yes, we’ve planned this for a while – these things always take longer than we think, it seems, but for now, everything is looking very much UP. We have a lot of exciting projects for us both to work on.

For me, I fully realize that most wives, upon hearing their husband wants to quit and get back to freelancing and work on some other projects, would probably freak right the heck out. But the closer we’ve come to this, and now that it’s a done deal, the more I’ve felt… content. Settled. We’ve been sleeping like rocks lately.

In explaining this working-for-ourselves to other people, in offline life, it strikes me that this isn’t new for us, even if it is for others. *This* is what we’re used to, what we’ve done for most of our married life. It’s only been the last couple of/ few years that Ron has walked in the corporate world. Getting back to it, so to speak since it’s a different field, different setup, is the familiar old gear.

We’re checking our equipment, packing our chutes, loading up the plane, just like we’ve done before. This time, we’re jumping while holding hands, in perfect formation.

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