I heave the house at 7am to drop the kids at breakfast club, sit in traffic getting stressed trying to get to my job for 8.30am.
I then sit at a desk battering a keyboard making a fortune for a large company, we're under staffed, over worked, it's stressful.
I leave that desk at 6pm and get home at 7pm, see my kids for an hour before they go to bed.
At the end of the month I get paid an ok salary, there's ppl doing a lot worse in the world but considering the millions I/my team make the company, we're very under paid.
All my experience is in the same line of work and leaving to go to another company wouldn't make things better, it's long hours, commuting to a city centre, being over worked and under paid.
Recently I've just been feeling like there's got to be more to life than this.
I never get to drop my kids off at school or pick them up.
I'm out of the house from 7am-7pm, I get to see my kids for an hour a day.
I could ask to reduce my hours but then I'm pretty much waiving goodbye to any opportunity to work my way up or even just move on to a better department in the company.
I've been considering starting childminding but I'm worried about whether anybody would chose me, what if I don't make enough money etc.
I've also been trying to think of business ideas. I don't have any savings to get me started though.
I'd love to hear stories from ppl who have successfully managed to escape the rat race and any ideas for businesses of jobs I could look in to.
Also if anybody tried and failed then feel free to tell me it's not all its cracked up to be please feel free to tell me not to bother, i'd like to be fully informed.
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SunFlower222 · 21/10/2017 08:33
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