DH started training for his new job yesterday. He will be in training all week and start out on Saturday with a sales appointment. Next week will be a combination of appointments and training so it will be a few weeks before we see any money (assuming he makes sales). I feel very good about this company and position even if it is 100% commission so hopefully things will start looking up on the financial front. It cannot happen too soon for me. We have been having to pay large bills (mortgage and healthcare) out of our home equity line of credit. I cringe every time I have to write a check from there. I cannot wait til he is back to making "enough" to pay all the bills and we can start repaying the line of credit. My goal is to have it done with by the end of this year but we will just have to see about that. I guess it depends on where we end up before he starts making any real money.

On another note, I also want to strangle DH. He has a side business selling car accessories. It is potentially a good business but I think he does not run it in a finacially sound way so it ends up not really making as much as it could. For example, he convinced himself he "needed" a big 14 ft. diesel box truck to store all his stuff and cart it to the markets where he sells it. He is convinced that if he has as much as possible with him, he will increase his sales. I am dubious about that and look at it as a waste of money that we don't have right now. He bought it on E-bay for $4000 and used the home equity line of credit with the understanding that he would sell his motorcycle (that he never rides) come spring. The motorcycle is worth more and would more than cover the cost of the truck. Now he is back pedalling on this and I would like to kill her. I told him, either one of the two is sold or he will be sleeping in the truck. It is not that it is a bad idea in general, just really bad timing right now for what I consider a want, not a need. Unfortunately, he was raised by a mother who did not know the difference herself between wants and needs but that is a whole other story.