What did I just do?

I resigned.  I just wrote the letter and gave it to my boss the next day.  I said I couldn't stay.  I had to leave.  I couldn't weather through one more program change, one more supervisor, one more office, one more job description.  I'm done.  I'm out.  Thanks for everything, but its over.  After nine years I'm tossing in the towel.  

What the hell did I just do?  In today's economy, job market, housing market, credit crunch, nation fraught with foreclosures, retirements dwindling, stocks tumbling, banks closing, sky faliing, etc. etc. etc.  What did I do???  

I can't afford to quit.  I figured out that we would have to make due on $80 per week for groceries, and that includes diapers, pet care, and all household expenes. We have to get rid of our storage space which costs $200 per month. We must change our nice little cell phone plans - heck maybe even get rid of one of the cell phones!  I've never had to worry about minutes before - how does that work?  Our budget does not allow any room for entertainment, eating at restaurants or anything extraneous.  I've never had to live like this before. What did I do?  

There is really only one thing that could make me do something this crazy. I'm going to stay home with my one-year-old son now and be his mom.  I missed out on a good portion of his babyhood because I was a slave to my job, but now I'm going to try to get some time back.  I'm also planning to work part-time on my alternative career that I've never fully pursued - massage therapy.

So please wish me luck.  I realize you don't know me, but I could use all of the well wishes I can get.  I feel like a part of me has been severed.  It was like a deformed limb.  I'll miss it, but it has been in my way, has been cumbersome, heavy, has held me back, and I'll sure be glad to see it go. My job was in social services.  I worked with people with chronic mental illnesses who committed serious crimes and were in the process of reintegrating back into the community.  It was the perfect job for me until I got pregnant.  Then somehow I stayed and even WENT BACK after my maternity leave, which seems impossible to me now.  

Thanks again for reading and for sending good thoughts my way.

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