More future concerns

I forgot about the job that might be coming up for hubby. Sometime this Fall/winter there may come a job opportunity for my husband. One that if he was to get the job would be near impossible not to take it. The difference in pay from now to that job is about 18,000/yr. Yeah pretty hard to turn that kind of money down when we have kids heading to college in a few short years and need a larger house. That's more than I could make if I go to work. The down side is that he'll have to work M-F 2nd shift for possibly the next 10 yrs or more. It could be a little less but it will be many years of 2nd shift before he has a chance to move to 1st. It's just the way the company works. It means he'd only see the older kids every other weekend except when school's out and that's a lot to give up. It also means in 3 yrs when Bryan goes to school full time he'd only get to see him on the weekends too. I probably wouldn't go to work if he took this job because I'll have to be free to do all the running for the kids. That is until Bryan would go to school then I could work. At that point we'd be in good shape for helping the kids with college with both of us working and that's important to us. Being together as a family is important too. I know many families who manage with one or more members working second shift. Neither one of us is thrilled at the idea of that, but it's too good of an opportunity for us to pass up really. The reason I'm so sure this job opportunity will come up is that it's for the same place my father works for. He has worked there for 31 yrs so they'll make sure his application gets seen by the review board and with my husbands knowledge and history he's pretty much a sure thing to get offered the job if they have openings. We want to make sure that we're ready for this kind of job before we get to the interview process. As I said though it's very hard to see how we could turn it down. There is the possibility that he'll be laid off once before being a permanent part of the company. That is a little scary, but we plan to save for that possibility and he'll have unemployment until he finds another job if that happens. Usually though once you've been laid off you'll be rehired later when they need more workers and then you're usually set in the company for life if you want. For my husband to make that kind of money where he's at he'd have to become a manager of some sort, which he doesn't want to do, or be there for 10-15 yrs. I hate the idea of us all being separated though. During the weekdays it would be me, hubby & Bryan, week nights all of us but hubby, one weekend the three of us again, the next all 6 of us. I just have to remember that families all of over the world have to do things like this and no matter what our situation could always be worse.