I am sure some of you have been in my situation at one time or another. My wife and I moved to Milwaukee this past June for her job. Since that time I have been looking for work to no avail. I am a chef with almost twenty years of cooking under my belt. I have 2 Associate degrees and a Bachelor degree. Some of the jobs I was offered did not pay as well as we need for me to be out of the house 60-80 hrs a week and hire a babysitter. I would be working just to pay the sitter on these salaries. So I have been doing the stay at home dad thing now for 4 months. In my forty years I have never been out of work so long let alone have a 2 and 4 year old to take care of.
I am one of those guys who needs to work and be in a kitchen.

My wife is a Veterinarian so it is not that I need to work to keep the kids fed and a roof over their heads. By this time at night with one in bed and one on the way in an hour or so I am beat, board and mentally numb. I feel that if I just took a job to get out of the house and accept a lower wage I would be cutting myself short and have a "stranger" take care of the kids if that makes sense. It is a dammed if you do and dammed if you don't

So guys what have you done in this type of situation? or suggestions.