We have some friends that we've known for years, pre-DC. They have always been better off than us, he as the director of an engineering company but resigned due to stress and is now doing a lowish paid part-time job. She is an LSA at a special needs school (similar to the one DH is working in). They have no mortgage and plenty of savings so finances are OK but they have had to cut back on holidays and cars etc.
DH has just got a teaching post at the school he is LSA at. I have gone back to work full-time. Financially we are probably now on a par. When DH is teaching we will be better off. No big deal.
Everyone who knows DH, many of them involved in teaching in some way, have all told him he will be just right for the job. His HT pushed him to apply for the post because she was so impressed with him. But this friend told DH, before he got the job, that she had heard through the grapevine that they were only going to offer him a part-time post because he wasn't experienced. That wasn't true. Then, after he had been offered the post, the first thing she said was that he was just interested in the money . She then proceeded to tell him how hard it is going to be, and that he's not stick it out for more than a term.
There were various comments about other subjects too. All a little bit negative and bitter. We were both taken aback TBH.
Is it envy? That she is still an LSA? Or that the status quo has been overturned? So many good things have happened to us recently.
It was vey uncomfortable. What can we do if something is bothering her?