I know a lot of people are facing more issues than me on this Virus that is around the world. Yet I wanted to talk to you guys a bit about me and how this might hurt me. Then I would like to hear something from you about all this. I will help one of you with some shares of SBI on Steem or on Hive as I will be posting this on both. I hope that people are okay with that for a while as we are learning about the path for both.
I am on my second week of a four-week furlough from work. They started us off with a 2-week one then upped it to 4 weeks. I live in the USA so I am a little lucky in that the government is going to send my family a check. Also, I will be going on unemployment next week and they added more money for us during this. If you don't know what a furlough is let me give a quick recap. It means that I don't get to work but I am not fired. So in theory at some time I get my old job back. The thing is a furlough can last as long as the company wants. I don't worry too much as my company tired to stay open. It took our local government in California shutting us down to make them close.
I am not sure if it was the right move or not. I work in the tech department for a Dentist company. One of the bigger ones in the state. I am trying to figure out in my mind if the Dentist should have been allowed to stay open. We had done a lot at the offices to make sure that everything was clean and sick people could not come in. Including screening them outside the offices. That was one of the reasons I was wondering why hospitals, chiropractors, doctors, and stores are all still open around us but the dentist got shutdown. The worry about this with me is that they are shutting down the schools for the next 5 months. They have not given us a timeline for the dentist to reopen. So now a lot of us are just waiting and wondering do we look for other work? Do we collect the money from the government and hope it lasts longer than they keep us shutdown? I am not really sure what will happen.
I know that for sure this stuff might not seem like a big deal. To anyone that has lost someone, I know my issues seem small. I have buried my parents so I know that pain and know this doesn't compare. But just sharing a bit with anyone that wants to read this. Now I will get to some of the good.
With my kids at home with me and me no work to do, I have become the daytime caregiver. This is very new to me. I have always worked and they have always been in daycare. We had weekends together but now it is all day every day. It has taken some getting used to but I am starting to enjoy it. I am getting my daughters to listen to me a bit better. I am getting to see how smart they are every day. I am getting to spend a lot more time outside in the backyard just playing like I was a kid again. I have to get in the right mindset to not get bored. It can be hard I am use to much more grownup stuff. But hey if I have to pretend to be a dwarf to play snow white then that is what I have to do. I can see a good thing for me if this all ends by May. I have enough saved up to live through that with no issues at all. The worries become if it pushes into August. I will just have to wait and see. I know that I should count myself lucky to have lost anyone yet to this. Yet still, I can see the house I worked so hard to buy, the job I worked so hard to get all slip away. To a virus, I never saw that coming for sure. I am not sure if many will read this. Not my normal stuff but take care.