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Leaving a job I love because it doesn't pay enough...

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splash73 · 25/09/2022 21:08

I'm currently self-employed, working part-time in a job I really love. It doesn't bring in anywhere enough to live on, but over the past few years has been a useful small second income for our family, to pay for extras.

I need to get out of the relationship I am in, and to do that I need an income that I can support myself and my children on. Sadly, it isn't possible to earn enough doing what I currently do, so I am looking at returning to what I was doing before I became a mum. I am trying to be grateful for the fact that I can step back into the old role fairly easily (albeit on a lower pay scale due to being out of the workforce for more than a decade), but it isn't a job I am passionate about.

I'm trying really hard to be pragmatic about it, to accept that changing circumstances need sensible decisions, and to be grateful for the options that I do have.

Just interested to know if anyone else has left a job they love, and how it panned out.

OP posts:
Redqueenheart · 27/09/2022 14:02

Some people achieve security by starting and running their own business too.

Donotgogentle · 27/09/2022 15:18

Yes of course. Just that op is not currently in that position, is under time constraints, and she has identified securing a rental etc would be more straightforward if she were in salaried employment.

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