You are not replaceable for your family
Wanna bet?
Glad it focused on “your kids.” My ex found I was replaceable, particularly with the court ordered checks still coming in…
Lol I was the disowned kid tbh
Tell me about it
Lol I didn’t wanna make it too dark or rain on people’s parades but when your own mother has literally disowned you repeatedly and threatened to sue because you’re telling people what she did to you as a kid and it’s hurting her reputation stuff like this becomes funny in a kinda dark way
Just don’t have kids to focus on working even harder.
I worked at a company for just under ten years, the last four with pretty much constant crunch, putting in 12 to sometimes 18 hours daily as a SALARIED EMPLOYEE. My marriage was on the rocks and I finally had enough. Found a new job working no more than 40 hours a week for a promotion and far more pay. My reward for all that extra free work was my former company refusing to match salary and me not getting a shipping bonus for a product that had shipped before I left.
Don’t be like me. Get out and find something more fulfilling.
This is the fucking truth. Money is never worth missing important moments.
The difficult part is that I’m not working late by choice, but by obligation. I don’t want my family to remember me losing my job and any downstream effects from that.
Luckily there’s only a few weeks per year that are crunch time and require me to stay late.
I have met a lot of people that just hate their kids and hate their spouse and work as much as possible because home is hell
I can’t afford to have children.
You’re also not replaceable for your friends. Don’t work hard and play hard - just play hard. Your company will get rid of you as fast, if not faster, than they hired you.
Yeah but kids will also remember and have the deepest appreciation for parents who put in overtime so they could afford to give their kids the best childhood possible
There’s definitely a balance.
There’s just a difference of having money and working overtime and checking emails on the weekend and struggling to put food on the table and working overtime. This type of post assumes the parents have a choice, sometimes there isn’t if they want to keep their family fed
This hits close to home 🙁
Bro, same! The cool holidays my dad took me on, didn’t really make up for all the evenings I didn’t see him. That was on top of only being at his place half the time. Money wasn’t an issue, he was just a workaholic.
