Christmas week 2007. I had relocated for a new job and was only on the job for 4 months. I left the office to pick my wife at home. As we drove out, I got a call to return back to the office for an emergency meeting. I left her in the car and went upstairs only to join over 80 individuals in a conference room where they announced a mass layoff effective the same day. I dropped my badge and laptop and went back to the car smiling. We went to the mall and I acted normal the entire day without saying a word and I went to spoil her at LV.
We got home that night and she broke the news to me that she was pregnant and she had done a surgery 3 years prior and we were told the chances of having kids was less than 1%, something I didn't disclose to any family member before and after we got married.
Happy and depressed at the same time all through the Christmas holiday, I didn't reveal to her I had lost my job.
January 5th, 2008 I drove 9hrs to Orlando, FL and used my last $2,500 to attend a Scrum Master certification and slept in my car after the training. Came back home after the training and applied for jobs for weeks leaving the house daily at 7am pretending to go to work. Never revealing to her I lost my job, confused and not sure what to do without any income plus a baby on the way, I acted normal the whole time. Finally a call came across for an interview with a health insurance company in Maryland. I did 3 interviews and got a call at the end of the day with a job offer to resume immediately the following Monday. I packed my bags and drove 12 hrs to Maryland to start work.
That job paid me $125,000 annually plus travel expenses coming from a salary of $65,000.
I only revealed this to her one month after I had gotten two and paychecks was very soft! We had our 1st son September 2008! I named him Isaac "One who laughs"......
faith, grit and self belief!