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Hi my name is Jessica, and my husband Cameron is an active duty sailor in the United States Navy. He is also currently deployed and will be home sometime in the summer of 2015. My blog title comes from my extreme reluctance in becoming a navy wife in the first place, and my desire to not be traditional in any sense of the word. Follow along if you enjoy the unconventional, crazy, and the whacky and appreciate never being what you don't want to be :)

Monday, January 27, 2014

It's Not Easy Being the Breadwinner

Okay, so this post is rather random, but it's driving me crazy. So today as I'm getting ready to leave work my boss decides to remind me that I only got four credit card applications last year, and that if I want to get more hours at work then I need to step up my game and get more iCAPS(instant credit applications) or else my hours are going to go down like crazy.
All right. Let's explain a couple things.
I work for a clothing retailer. The store is divided up into different sections, and every section has a set of registers that they are responsible. That is, all of them do, except for mine. Yep. That's right folks. I am somehow supposed to clean the floor, clean three fitting rooms, help customers, and walk to the other side of the store practically and ring so that I can get credit apps from strangers, and then somehow do all this when there are maybe two or three of us to do my entire section of the store. Okay. I understand where my job is coming from. I really do. That is part of my job, and I'm not doing it as well as they want me too. But come on guys! I'm trying really hard here, and I do have some added obstacles in my way. Not to mention, doesn't good customer service count in here somewhere? No...? Okay... :/

I guess the main reason that it bothers me is that I'm the breadwinner in this relationship. Cameron makes enough to cover his expenses, and there's not a whole lot that's left over, which means that saving for the wedding and anything else that we want to do is mostly up to me. And I was okay with that for awhile, but now this is becoming a problem, because now I can't provide for myself let alone provide for someone else. It really isn't easy being the breadwinner, and it definitely just got a whole lot harder. Here's to hoping that things get better one way or another sometime soon.

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