Work has been awful today (I'm still here at 6pm and probably won't get out before 10... I should probably get off this forum), so I've been daydreaming. My husband was laid off recently and is working a seasonal construction job over the summer. It pays well enough that we should be able to finish off our student loans and have $15-20k in the bank by October. I had a real estate agent come and look at our house, and conservatively we could sell and net $10k.
So... with Alaska's economy tanking, it's incredibly tempting to move somewhere with dirt cheap cost of living and get some part-time jobs. We could use that $25k as transition money while we figured it out. I'm so tired of 60 hour weeks, coworkers not respecting my time, etc etc etc. I kind of just want to work at a bookstore for minimum wage and go home to my studio apartment.
I realize this is the burn out talking, but... is it really that crazy? If you were going to do it, where would you go? I need somewhere with some smart people, preferably with a community that isn't based around "the Church" (so, not the deep south). A town of under 100,000 would be amazing.
(And yes, if you find my journal, I did just post today about how I'm lucky to have a good job. I do. I know it. But even good jobs have hard days, and a little daydreaming never hurt anyone.)
