I Can Admit When I'm Wrong, the City, Swimming and No Jobs in Public

I’m not sure how much detail I went into it. When Hubby first started this new job I thought that he was kinda blowing it off and maybe was going to get let go. Maybe he was kinda lost the first week. He says he was taking time to learn and understand everything. I pushed and pushed and now he is self motivated and rocking it. He even went out yesterday morning and got a claim. Last week he got 9 claims, and he gave 2 more away (long story dealing with a girl on his team with health issues and he and his boss helped her out, Jeff gave her 2 claims and his boss gave her one so she wasn’t getting in trouble. They have been trying to fire her, and his boss is friends with her and is fighting for her). Anyways the person behind him got 4. So Hubby did more than double what the second place guy did. They let him run an adjuster meeting on Friday and he got the claim approved, so now he is training to run his own adjuster meetings, which means more money, then the next step is to have guys under him.

The only problem is, is because he is doing so well, so fast, he’s been there 4 days short of a month, the main office manager accused him of making up claims. I guess he’s breaking records with how fast he’s progressing and how many claims he’s getting. His immediate manager told him that the main boss told him he thought Hubby was making up claims and asked him to call the insurance companies and verify claim numbers. He called three, then stopped, because of course they were all real. Hubby is just a really, really good salesman. He’s the type of person who can go into a room of strangers and have everyone laughing within five minutes. So I guess we will find out at the company meeting Wednesday if he’s really getting promoted. The meetings are usually Monday’s but they moved this week’s til Wednesday because of the holiday. They get a different shirt color when they are promoted.

Anyways, we went Chicago yesterday. We were going to a time share thing that Hubby has signed us up for. If we sat there for 2 hours and listened to them, we were supposed to get a $2000 voucher to use at their hotels. Hubby was late getting back, we got a late start, and there was traffic, so by the time we actually got there we were 30 minutes late. We couldn’t find the parking garage for the hotel, by gps was going crazy, Hubby had to pee and was starving, so he said fuck it, and we just went and ate at the Hard Rock Cafe. It was still fun, except that when we were leaving I went to the bathroom and I had on sandals with a really thin heel and I slipped on water and fell. Hubby was right behind me and kinda picked me up before I was even done falling if that makes since. I do have a small bruise on my knee. So then when I got out of the bathroom the manager was there and he had a girl there mopping up the water, and they were both saying sorry and asking if I was ok. At that point, I was just embarrassed and wanted to get out. So I just kept saying I was ok. Hubby kept telling me it wasn’t my fault that they shouldn’t let the floors be wet.

Saturday, we went to the water park for a few hours in the evening. My daughter was working so it was just me, Hubby and youngest son. Son learned how to swim when he was with his Dad on vacation. Don’t think I mentioned it, but he just got back this past Friday. He was gone for two weeks. I knew he was really, really close to learning. He was almost doing it when I was taking him to the water park. He also turned ten on Wednesday. He is on the autism spectrum, so he is afraid of water (showers are a struggle), so this is a big deal.

Job wise for me I have no news. Less and less jobs are being posted each day. Hubby keeps telling me I’m helping him so much and my job is to keep him motivated and organized. He says that once we see these first build check and if the commission is really what they say it is that I don’t have to work. He says if I want to, and he won’t be mad if I don’t but if I want to try to go back to the very part time at the library I was doing a few years ago, or go back to tutoring or something, just to get me out of the house that’s fine. I’ve been the one taking care of everything for the past 18 months since we met again, and it has always bothered him and he wants to be able to take care of me. So we will see. I’m still applying for what I am qualified for, they just aren’t posting very many jobs. Maybe fate will decide for me.