Who do you know quit her job today?

I've accepted a new position that will work better with my schedule. The pay isn't great and I have to work 7 days a week, but I think being a housewife (for the next 4 weeks) and then a mother will be more rewarding than the job I just quit today.

Truth be told, my job sucked. As I've mentioned before, it's 100% commission and selling advertising at a university in this economy is a foolish and frustrating endeavor. Yesterday I was at work looking at my quotas for this month and the next 4 months and realized there was absolutely no way I could even come close to getting 1/2 of my quota. And then I figured out how much my take home pay would be with said performance. Peanuts! So I talked to a couple of friends last night and then talked to Christian while we (okay, he) assembled the bookcase and even before I had the entire sentence out of my mouth, he said "Quit and do it tomorrow", so that's what I did. We both figured that the energy I would expend and the stress I would accumulate over the next 4 weeks wouldn't be worth the small paycheck, so I informed my boss around 9:30 this morning that I was"done" and I left a few hours later after I sent some e-mails and emptied out my cubicle. Didn't burn any bridges and left on a high note. And can I tell you how AMAZING I feel? This heavy burden that has been resting on my shoulders for so long is gone. I can tell Pat is excited because he/she has not stopped moving at all today. And I'm not exaggerating.

So now I can spend the next 4 weeks nesting 24 hours/day, not just between the hours of 5:00 pm and 10:00 pm. And Christian is excited because I have promised to do his laundry now...well, at least until Pat's birth (for those of you that don't know, I have never done Christian's laundry in the 6.5 years we've been married. Some of you shake your head and frown upon this arrangement whilst others can't believe I've been so lucky).

We're both a little nervous about the lost income, but again, it was going to be peanuts anyway. I think we'll be able to trim some fat off our monthly spending since we won't be going to our place in the Hamptons every weekend and I won't be driving the Hummer around all over town. And I'm so very much looking forward to enjoying the next 4 weeks and then being a new mom, and not having to worry about a missed quota and possible termination.

So, if you need me for anything except manual labour, let me know. I've got some time on my hands right now.