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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5313001" data-attributes="member: 54707">It wouldn't let me give XP congratulations, but congratulations anyhow.We got some excellent news last week. My wife became unemployed (the site where she works is closing).That might seem counter-intuitive as good news, at first glance, but I'd been encouraging her to quit for awhile and do other things she would enjoy far more. To pursue her real interests and desires.I already had a contingency plan for this anyway (I got plans for everything), so it didn't bother me at all she lost her job. It wasn't like it was her fault anyway. Terrible economy.But we've been talking and she is finally going to start pursing things she wants to do. She's talking about going into radio and broadcasting, about becoming a public speaker, about doing some missions work, and is even entertaining the idea of a secondary political career. (As a black conservative she already has some people interested in talking with her.) At the end of the month she'll be taking a class in voice-over work. I think she'd do quite well at any of these pursuits.She's already cut a gospel CD (which sold several copies) and so she can now pursue her musical career in earnest if she wishes. I hope she will. I'll help her get an agent if she wants. And she'll be able to spend more time with the kids.As for me my non-fiction writing career is doing quite well and I'm finally at the point where I've got agents and editors interested in looking at my fictional works. I've got some new inventions I'm getting interest in, and my studies for the priesthood are going very well - just finished Augustine's Enchiridion De Fide Spe et Caritate (Faith, Hope, and Charity). Plus I've got an opportunity to work on a couple of interesting scientific projects in the meantime. Biology/medical experiments mostly.So my wife becoming unemployed has been a real Godsend and an answer to prayer. It will allow us an opportunity to pursue many things that we couldn't have nearly as easily pursued otherwise. I have a feeling next year will be the most productive year of our marriage so far.Now I know many people are hurting from this bad economy. and I hope and pray the situation for those people improves rapidly. But for us, personally, it's opened up a number of very good opportunities that she, and we, might not have otherwise pursued.So I'm very optimistic about the future.And hope others are doing well too.</blockquote>

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