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The Safe Choice

August 14, 2018 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I met Megan when I was only twenty-two years old.  I was fresh off of my active duty tour as a Marine, having been in the communications specialty for the past four years.  My “job” was, effectively, IT, just as it is now. I was ready to “settle down” already.  I had met a good woman, I was back home, with four years experience in my…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed by Illness, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Employment, Careers, Safe, widower, Long Term Illness, Mike Welker, widower with children, Sacrifice, risk, choices, Jobs

Beginning of the End

September 5, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I am 36 years old.  Soon to be 37.  Although I’ve held the titles of Marine (6 years), Lifeguard (3 years), Father (10 years), Widower (3 years), Husband (9 years), Boyfriend (9 years, cumulatively), and Student (13 years…I never went to college), the title that has been with me the longest, up to this day, is “Employee” (21 years). I…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: Jobs, Risks, Routines, Past, Rat Race, widower, Mike Welker, widower with children, Regrets

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