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First, thank you to everyone who offered advice, anecdotes, and criticism! 

When my husband and I talked about a second income, he immediately started applying to jobs and got a call shortly after. I mentioned in my later comments that my husband had just been offered an interview. It was for a research organization and his job would be making calls and collecting data. Not thrilling but in a previous life he was a canvasser and is used to talking to strangers and making a script sound natural. He had the interview and within 24 hours they offered him a job. They asked how much he makes at his current job, and are paying him about a dollar less per hour. 

The job is also 5-9 pm M-Th every other week, so he has all weekends free for sports and working every other week makes it feel less overwhelming. On nights he works I take care of stuff around the house that he would normally do in the evening, but it's allowed me to expand my days so I'm at the office longer. So now I'm not sitting around snacking when he's not home, and I get the office to myself and during my down time I can study for the GRE in silence without cats bugging me and people watching TV and doing laundry.

It's weird but he really likes his second job, he's learning a lot about the issue they're researching, says it's boring work but easy and relaxing, and it helps that he's really good at it. He got his first full paycheck last week and he'll be making almost triple a month what we initially needed! I had told him that if he really hated it he could decided whether he wanted to stay or leave, but he's enjoying it. All the money he makes is going into a separate account and his loans will be taken directly from there, so I can save my raise money and he can also start saving his own money while fully contributing to household bills.
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My husband is doing well with his second job and is getting
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[Here's the OP.](

First, thank you to everyone who offered advice, anecdotes, and criticism! 

When my husband and I talked about a second income, he immediately started applying to jobs and got a call shortly after. I mentioned in my later comments that my husband had just been offered an interview. It was for a research organization and his job would be making calls and collecting data. Not thrilling but in a previous life he was a canvasser and is used to talking to strangers and making a script sound natural. He had the interview and within 24 hours they offered him a job. They asked how much he makes at his current job, and are paying him about a dollar less per hour. 

The job is also 5-9 pm M-Th every other week, so he has all weekends free for sports and working every other week makes it feel less overwhelming. On nights he works I take care of stuff around the house that he would normally do in the evening, but it's allowed me to expand my days so I'm at the office longer. So now I'm not sitting around snacking when he's not home, and I get the office to myself and during my down time I can study for the GRE in silence without cats bugging me and people watching TV and doing laundry.

It's weird but he really likes his second job, he's learning a lot about the issue they're researching, says it's boring work but easy and relaxing, and it helps that he's really good at it. He got his first full paycheck last week and he'll be making almost triple a month what we initially needed! I had told him that if he really hated it he could decided whether he wanted to stay or leave, but he's enjoying it. All the money he makes is going into a separate account and his loans will be taken directly from there, so I can save my raise money and he can also start saving his own money while fully contributing to household bills.
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Husband wasn't sure if it was fair for him to get a
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