Congrats to your son, Rockvillemom. 
Just YEAH
WOW!!! That is awesome!!! Thank you for sharing it with us. What a wonderful resolution!
Big smiles, RVM. Good Mom, Good kid. Yay! Thanks for sharing this.
Incredible news!!! Congratulations to your son!!!
Rockvillemom. Congrats to you and your son!
Thank you all so much! We are very excited. A new city to visit!
How wonderful – congrats all around!
I’m wide awake and looking through threads I haven’t really had time to look at yet. I just read all 10 pages here…congratulations to your S, RVM! Awesome. It sounds like it was a blessing in disguise to shake things up for him. He’s doing what he wants, which is huge. The money will come as long as he is happy and passionate about going to work each day. Good for him!
My S, who just graduated in May, starts his first job in @ two weeks or so. A dream job of sorts for him, right out of the gate! It doesn’t always happen that way and it’s hard to sit back & watch & wait & want to help. I have a feeling he’ll stay in this position for awhile…the company will give him amazing opportunities. At some point, he’ll head back for his MBA, but will work for a few years first.
Congrats to your S…hope it turns out to be a fabulous opportunity for him!
Huge congrats @rockvillemom !!! Great news! And the NFL…he must be thrilled.
Great news, RVM. Congrats to your son.
This is great news! What a dream job. Congrats to you and your son.
I’m sharing this because we have all come to the realization that for him - losing his job was a blessing!
Exactly why we parents have to keep our instinct to fix our kids’ lives at bay (recognizing that if our kid has extenuating circumstances such as mental illness or other challenges, we may have to take on a greater role). We can offer advice when asked, and we can offer a place to land. We have to resist the urge to orchestrate things, though. Things have a way of working themselves out as they should - maybe not always what we might want, but it’s not our lives.
In this case, it all worked out beautifully … congratulations!
@kelsmom - you are right and I do struggle with this. I am a fixer! Would you believe that my first instinct after hanging up with him was to worry about him finding an affordable apartment in this pricey city? I actually started looking online - and then I stopped myself - realizing I have never been there - have no idea about various neighborhoods, etc. It’s a tough urge to resist, lol.
Adult child is perfectly fine:
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/94679/referring-to-adult-age-sons-and-daughters-as-children
“My children are all married now…” (assumedly they were adults when they got married)
“It’s a shame her children don’t visit her in the nursing home more…” (assumedly, the parent is elderly, and the children are adults)
Yes, I say that.
And I also know that helicoptering and hands on parents may be good for your children but they make BAD in-laws.