My wife got a summer internship for NASA which is awesome, but it's in Mississippi, 12 hours away from home. I just worry that something could happen to my parents in the 2.5 months that we'll be gone (yeah i know it's not likely tho, but it's my biggest fear, my dad is 72 and I'll miss his 73rd birthday).
She is going to get $6000 for ten weeks, which sounds good, but we still have to find a place to live and we have been considering the benefits of just staying at a Hotel/motel but that's def pretty expensive, but at least we would have internet, cable, furniture, and breakfast already payed for. Hopefully i can find part time work while we're there but y'all know how job hunting goes sometimes.
I also have to quit my regular job while we're gone, my manager said he would hire me back, but theres no guarantee there will be an opening when we get back, it could be weeks or a month before something opens up and i wouldnt have a job or have to find something else if there's not an opening when we get back. it's my favorite job i've ever had too.