Way to miss the forest for the trees.

You’ll break $100k easy your second year and by year three, seeing you live in base and are willing to be flexible, you can easily be north of $150k.

I was also single income with kids. I ended up financing my first year mostly on credit. And that was on the old contract. I don’t think I made much more than $30k. In South Florida.

Yes it sucked, but long term it made sense.

That was 5 years ago. My income is now well north of $250k, double anything I would have dreamed of at my previous employer...

Your kids will survive For a year on Ramen and Mac n Cheese no problem. It’ll go by fast.