Well, after 13 years of working for UPS as a preloader, he is making enough to support the household. I dont work thus I am home all day long. He has told me of nightmares where he is driving around with a truck full of stuff and it is 3 in the afternoon and he is lost trying to find his first stop, he says these dreams wake him at night. Between that and the fact that drivers live the hardest life with working till very late into the evening and dealing with crappy loaders, and management that is always on your butt about getting the packages to the destinations faster, no matter how fast you go it is never fast enough for management. He would rather know that he only has to lead his trucks, and that once that is done he can go home once things are wrapped up. I think the fact that you drivers come up onto the lines and look into your trucks and get this look of just dread on yur face, because either the load is crappy (which I think sometimes even with the best loader that happens) or it is a lot more stops then you think should be on there, and the boxes are packed to the tail of the truck and then stacked to the roof, it must be very overwhelming to see that and know you will be out there till all that stuff is delivered, and then on top of that you have to pick up stuff from places too. I dont think I would want to be a driver either under that kind of stress.
We both like being able to go out during the day. We go pretty much everywhere together. He is the person I have chosen to spend the rest of my life with, and to me that means we should be together as much as we can possibly be. A lot of people (family included) have asked how it is that after 10 years of being together we both still want nothing more in life then to be together 24/7, and honestly, he is the most amazing, intelligent, sensitive (mostly) man I have ever met.
On his part time pay, we own a 4 bedroom house on 3 acres which will be completely paid off in 5 years, at that point he will be going into management or retiring, depending on what he wants to do.if he retires we will be living off of investments that he has made. He does quite a bit of investing, and has done very well at it.
I also really wouldnt like him to go driving, yes the money would be nice, and OMG the overtime you guys work is major money, but to me I would rather spend time with him then have the extra money. We dont have credit cards, and other then the mortgage payment have absolutely no debt, we both beleive that if we dont have the cash to buy something then we dont need it that badly.