By cormander
After almost a year of hell, my pregnant wife finally gave birth last Tuesday. My new daughter was pretty healthy despite being a month premature. I think this will be our last biological child due to my wife’s hard pregnancies (she suffers from hyperemesis gravidarum among other pregnancy complications)
For the next month I’ll be 23 with 3 kids age 3 and under.
So my life is back to normal, sort of. It’ll never be the same of course, having a new baby. Instead of my wife being unable to get out of bed / being hospitalized and having me run around doing most of everything; she’s spending all her time trying to feed the baby, premature babies usually have trouble with breastfeeding, and I get to run around doing not as much as I had to before.
Might have noticed that I haven’t posted anything in the blog all month – my wife’s health was so bad I had to request my boss let me temporally work from home, and the catch was to work a 5pm to 2am schedule – with the daytime full of taking care of two toddlers and a sick wife. So basically the little free time I had was spent keeping me from going insane, which unfortionatly didn’t include blogging or coding.
Hopefully life will become more “normal” over the next few months. Pray that this new child doesn’t have any problems like my other two had in their infancy.
By cormander
I just read an interesting article at Yahoo!: Are video games recession proof?
If you think about it, this is cause and effect. You lose your job, you suddenly have 10 hours (or so) a day which you don’t know what to do with yourself. Videos games are (relativity) cheap, so you have tens of thousands of people spending $55.95 or whatever simply so they don’t lose their minds.
Not to pass judgment on others- but man, it’s really stupid to be spending (wasting) your day playing a video game when you’re unemployed. Maybe it’s just because I’m married, have children, a mortgage (these things motivate me to keep a steady income) but even when it gets to the point where you’ve literally gone on 30 interviews with no such luck- that’s when you start walking through business offices in town asking to speak to the manager and if there is a job opening.
I know from experience that there are a ton of employers that are looking for new employees but don’t have any form of ads posted (or not posted in the right places). There are even employers who will hire someone they don’t necessarily “need” because that person does the job really well; there’s a saying that I can’t quite remember… goes something like “Good people are hard to find, so hire them even when you don’t need them, you can always get rid of the bad ones later”.
It may sound bad going into a job and getting hired which results in someone else getting fired – but when it’s your lively hood on the line, things get cutthroat. The person who gets let go probably deserves it anyway and could use a wake-up call.
