Well…more or less.
My wife is currently in her last year of school. She's studying to be a teacher and she wants to work in the school district that my daughter is in. That puts her close to home.
I've got about nine years before my daughter is 18. If my wife is actually working next year then that's around seven years of income she will add.
It's only been me working since 2003 when my son was born.
But when or if it comes time to start looking for a new job, I have extensive contacts in the industry. I will have several years of "management experience" and be able to legitimately claim on any resume that I was a Composing Manager at my last job.
What you mention is also the reason I use InDesign now. I'm a former QuarkXPress convert and over time I realized that if I wanted to be hired in the future I was going to need ID experience.
So, as I am in charge, I switched programs. Rather than waiting on myself to learn the app on my own time (which was not going to happen) I decided that on the job, sink or swim, paid training would be what forced me to learn the app.
Currently, I've got about 25% of the time I have with QuarkXPress put into InDesign.
I keep up with industry trends and pay attention to job postings. Unfortunately, a lot of the offerings for the things I am qualified for pay around 75% of what my boss is paying me. And I doubt any of them are as flexbile as my boss in regards to what I am allowed to do.
It matters right now because I am the only one working. But once my daughter is old enough and my wife has steady employment I can afford to take a pay hit by leaving.
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Yeah, this is my boss.
He indicates understanding, listens to my issues, but does nothing about it.
The fact of the matter is that both ad reps that I deal with bring in the money for the business. He's going to always allow the ad reps to blow deadlines and screw up my schedule because accepting a late ad brings in money. It's also one of the reasons that the selfish, greedy person is allowed to abuse everyone in the shop with her rudeness, unreasonable demands and self-important attitudes. Money covers a lot of sins.
I and the editor are the only two people that are rigidly held to our deadlines. Everyone else in the shop can be as late as they wish, but there's hell to pay if I or the editor are late getting the paper out.
My boss tries to mask this by seeming to be understanding, but he allows this because ultimately it's about the money.
I have no illusions I can be replaced if I no longer meet the requirements that allow him to focus solely on himself.
