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Some of my closer Virtual Assistant friends know that my beautiful, sweet, wonderful man has been away for a couple months. He’s finally back home (got back Sunday) and I’m walking on air!
My guy is an adventurous type and his job for the past 10 years has been with an international outfit that machines and services the giant turbochargers on ships… all kinds of ships from cruise ships to the freighters that travel the oceans from continent to continent. They train these guys in Switzerland and there are only about 500 or 800 of them (can’t remember which) in the world who do what my guy does (or did, rather).
They had a local shop and for the most part he worked there. But every so often, because this is such specialized work and there are only a relative handful of guys who do it, he would be sent to various exotic ports around the globe, places like Panama, Curacao, New Guinea, Pusan and Saipan to name a few off the top of my head. Generally, he might be gone for a week or two at the most on those jobs.
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with his job. The money was extraordinarily good, but I didn’t like it when he’d have too many back-to-back jobs where he had to be away from home constantly. It’s just so disruptive. Sometimes I downright hated it, and I’d wish he did something else.
Well, be careful what you wish for! LOL
My guy retired from that job finally… but can he just relax and enjoy it? No, he ends up taking this offer with this corporate fishing company as an engineer. He’d been toying with the idea since last year and I’ve been saying “no way” from day one.
But he had to try it; he thought it was too good an opportunity to pass up and regret not having the experience. The way he figured it, the buttload of money was well worth the almost round-the-clock hours and balls-to-the-wall work and then he’d have two or three months off in between for us to travel and work on some of his own business ideas (he’d like to start up a kayaking guide business at some point).
But this time apart has been really hard on me. It’s just too long.
For now, though, in this moment, I am so grateful and elated to have my love home again.
Let me...
