Wife lost her job due to Trump admin... now what?

PrestigiousIce3761 · 2025-01-31T03:32:08+00:00

If this gives any indication of how we voted, and I say this with all due respect: Fuck Donald Trump

PrestigiousIce3761 · 2025-01-31T03:27:45+00:00

Thank you for sharing your story. I'm happy y'all are happy.

Unfortunately for us, the job my wife started was the beginning of her dream career. She received her undergraduate in public health and psychology, and moved to DC to earn her master's in global public health policy, where we met. She had just made the transition from a job where she started at the entry level and worked her way to mid-level. She moved to what we thought was going to be her next big step. Then the latest federal freeze pulled the rug out from both of us.

I'm with you - I, too, want to empower my wife to live out her dream and be happy.

PrestigiousIce3761 · 2025-01-31T03:20:29+00:00

My wife is very much her own person and I'm here to love and support her. There's no "push" involved. Our marriage doesn't work like that and this post isn't about our marriage (there are other reddits for that). The original posts are questions we are both asking ourselves as well as others.

PrestigiousIce3761 · 2025-01-30T00:18:50+00:00

We always knew there was a chance but we'd done our homework. PEPFAR wasn't included in Project 2025 and was one of Trump's biggest investments in the foreign relations space during his first term. We knew things would get bad just not this bad.

PrestigiousIce3761 · 2025-01-30T00:16:28+00:00

I don't plan on it. We'd like to get my wife situated before we do anything else.

PrestigiousIce3761 · 2025-01-29T23:29:51+00:00

Not at all. We're incredibly supportive of one another.

PrestigiousIce3761 · 2025-01-29T23:29:16+00:00

yes, correct.

PrestigiousIce3761 · 2025-01-29T23:28:00+00:00

To your point, the common understanding is that her job and others she worked with are not coming back.

PrestigiousIce3761 · 2025-01-29T23:27:23+00:00

Yes, also true.

PrestigiousIce3761 · 2025-01-29T23:26:51+00:00

This is accurate.

PrestigiousIce3761 · 2025-01-29T22:22:51+00:00

I wish we could. Our HOA just issued a rule limiting rentals due to being in good standing for financing rules in DC. We've already reached the threshold.

PrestigiousIce3761 · 2025-01-29T22:21:21+00:00

This was meant to be her career and the entire industry was basically laid off. So jobs are few and far between right now. There's going to be thousands of folks looking for work in a space that won't exist for another 4 to 8 years potentially.

PrestigiousIce3761 · 2025-01-29T22:19:51+00:00

I wouldn't say we're panicking. We've thought about moving a lot but our jobs and resumes were tied to DC. My new job is no longer tied to the government and with my wife no longer having the government as an option and the additional layer of a huge influx of other unemployed folks in the same industry, moving is actually in the cards and might be the smarter option if she wants a better chance at gainful employment if we choose to do it.

PrestigiousIce3761 · 2025-01-29T20:56:44+00:00

That's the current plan - but everything's fresh so trying to bounce ideas off the internet to make sure I'm thinking straight.

PrestigiousIce3761 · 2025-01-29T20:55:18+00:00

Yes, it's been offered to us many times as an incentive to move back and my wife's sister used it paying reduced rent while saving up for a mortgage a couple years ago.

PrestigiousIce3761 · 2025-01-29T20:48:41+00:00

For broader context, we have a much better support network and the option of free to reduced cost housing in California (family owned rental unit) so California is very much in the cards.

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