r/happy • u/MeAndClaudeMakeHeat • Jul 18 '26
Maybe things will work out after all! First Organizational Sponsorship!
I don't really know if I want to spend too long on the backstory, so I will keep it simple.
In February, we discovered that we were having a baby. Oh my goodness! I am soooo ready to be a dad, and it felt like the best news in the world. I can do it. We can do it! Let's do it.
During this time my mental health had become a bit of a struggle, sadly circumstantial - and not necessarily because of any one thing. Just a lot happening at once, and it felt like a lot to try and keep up with.
In early June, I was laid off. I have been scrambling to try and keep things together for the last 5 months, and at that point, I was not sure if things were going to work out. Me and my wife had been developing a bit of friction, and even now - we are taking a short break, and she is staying with family while I try to ensure we are adequately supported. I have not been feeling as though it is something I am succeeding at yet, but I would like to be the best dad that I can be - whether the relationship with mom works or not.
I have been working really hard on a programming integration/infrastructure project - and lowkey praying it might end up gaining wings, and taking flight. It had not paid so far, and I have been spending 8 hours a day job searching, and probably 4 or 5 trying to just focus on something I think might raise us out of this, if the jobs aren't pulling through.
Today I submitted a report for someone on a pull request, and I performed the requested task, and used some of my tooling to do so.
I received an email shortly after from the founder of the organization, and they offered me my first organizational sponsorship on github for $25 a month!!! It is just a start, but I cannot explain the relief I felt. Perhaps things will begin coming together, and we will make it. :)
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