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DH job choice, AIBU to feel taken advantage of

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1frenchfoodie · 21/10/2021 18:46

After 5 years of not working due to my job (took us overseas, he never sufficiently grasped the language) we are back in the UK and my DH is due to start a part time (3 month) job working nights monday evening - saturday mornin next month. It is manual warehouse work, not in his skills area.

He was approached about a permanent job in his field (IT) today working Tue-Sat days for the same hourly wage but with chance of overtime. The job would start 10 days sooner. AIBU to feel annoyed he turned it down?

We have another move planned in April so it might not have gone beyond then but that would be 6 months of experience in his skills area but months more of being a 2 wage family for the first time since 2016.

He said he wanted saturdays with the family but as it is he’d be coming in from a 8h overnight shift at 7am on sat so days out dont feel very feasible. He also knows IT jobs are finished when they are finished so there would be overtime hours vs the totally predictable hours of the warehouse job.

I’ve just cleared a vey large (thousands) long overdue tax bill of his from our savings so maybe I am not being wholly rational??

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Heathofhares · 22/10/2021 17:45

Is the IT job a contract/ self employed role? If your DH got into difficulties with the tax man/ paper work side once he may be very wary about going there again. If the manual job is PAYE then that might be much less stressful for that reason too?

KayKayWat · 22/10/2021 18:34

I can't help but wonder if part of the issue is society's expectations of men as the principle earner. Would it be so bad if he did what many women do and let their partner be the one with the 'serious' job?

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