Knowing Your Limits
Last year, before the Covid lock-downs started, I applied for and obtained a job as a ticket-taker for our local baseball team, the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs. I am honestly not a huge fan of baseball, but it is a great community event whenever there is a home game. We went to games sporadically when the boys were little, mostly during school nights or scout nights. Whenever we have gone to a game we have seen lots of friends and neighbors. It is a great time, even if baseball isn't really your thing. To be completely honest, my sole motivation for taking the job was to supplement our meager income. My husband had recently gone out of work on disability, so his income was cut. Our house payment, however, was not. We were already struggling financially due to our combined medical bills, so a decrease in income was awful. I had already picked up a two extra-pay coaching positions at the school that I work at -- softball for the end of last school year, and field hockey fo