I'm after some career advice please.
My DP is a teacher (a bloody brilliant one!) and is the main breadwinner. My salary is small and low-paid as my job fits around the school-age children. I'm happy to work all the hours in the world, but we have no family help so we'd be paying for childcare if I was out of the house more.
He had a long period of mental ill health (caused by work). He recovered from that and went back to work.
Now he's got "bogged down" in his job again. His mental health has gone downhill again. It is affecting me and the kids. I can see how he's got to where he is, but by the same token, I'm not prepared to live like this any more.
I'm convinced that we will never be a happy family unless he leaves teaching. It drains him so much that he has little left for himself or us. He does literally nothing for himself, preferring to give his last drop of energy to us.
He keenly feels his responsibility as being the provider for us and refuses to believe that there is an alternative. He just wants to continue to provide the level of income for me and the children at his own detriment and suffering. He has said for years that the job will kill him in the end.
I feel powerless to help him change as we just keep coming back to the question of how he can earn a similar amount. He also feels unemployable because he's been a teacher so long and he doesn't have any other skills!? I'm sure he's wrong, but I have no specific answers as I don't know enough about it.
Has anyone been in a similar position and successfully made a change? What other jobs can ex-teachers do that aren't poorly paid? Where could I point him for career advice?
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losingit100 · 16/04/2017 19:11
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