Hello,
I need some advice on how to support my husband as he goes through yet another job set back, and also how to deal with this myself. The place he works at is cutting salaries, and meanwhile he’s worried he’ll get laid off. This is after years of similar set backs or being fired from other jobs. :/

He’s doing what he loves (he works with kids in some capacity), you can say it’s his dream job. Yet, in the three years since he’s started this line of work, he’s had such hard luck keeping jobs. In short, he just keeps landing gigs at places that don’t have their stuff together and he ends up getting the short end of the stick.

Some riveting history so you see our frustration:
He’s ended up at places that are run poorly, quit, and gone somewhere else where he ended up getting fired (better off not at this place, but still).

He worked in this field for a friend a month, was so happy, she was so happy, but she was never able to pay him.

We moved out of state, he landed a job immediately. It was great for a while until his boss wanted to change things around again (she had had three people working with her in one year, if that tells you anything), and he was demoted.

The place he’s at now is Okay, but they’re seriously in debt and they’re cutting salaries. He’s having a meeting at the end of the day with his boss and her boss. He’s totally worried he’ll get laid off, even though I tried telling him to just focus on the day and see what they say later.

MY QUESTION: What in the world do we do???

We’re both so tired and frustrated that he’s in a line a work that he loves and is good at, yet he can’t just keep a job! He says he feels like a failure and that he made a mistake going this direction, he feels like a failure. Should he just go into another line of work, something more stable? What should he do? What do I tell him?