So, I am hoping to have someone look at my situation and tell me if I'm missing something bigger, I'm obviously very pro doing this and will argue that way. I work from home in a job that has a terrible work life balance. How is that possible? I'm production based and micro managed so much so that I can't comfortably go to the bathroom without someone asking me why I'm not in front of my computer working. This tech startup company offers "unlimited PTO" however my requests have been consistently denied based on business needs. Now our shifts are being changed from outside of normal business hours. The manager is one of the main factors of pain in my life too, people make mistakes but each mistake he takes personal and has gone so far as telling us that we're not committed to this company when we make mistakes. That being said, it pays well.
I have been employed by a major insurance company as an adjuster and am trained across a lot of platforms (all the estimating software, catastrophe claims etc) I have not applied for any lateral moves to get out of this job, only sought jobs that would be a move up (management/other industries that I believe my skills transfer too. What I'm thinking of doing, is quitting my current job, finishing our home remodel project that is going slow since I've only been able to work on it on occasional weekends. Once that is done, work full time to replace my job that I left with a different company, moving back to a field adjuster position. I don't think it would be terribly difficult to get another field adjuster role via all my contacts across companies, my training, degree, and licensing across all 50 states. I could be underestimating the job market though, but again, I haven't applied for any lateral move positions yet.
Now onto the finance.
Wife makes 55k
I make 68k - 2 years into employment with this company, 5 years with my last company 4 with a prior company (I don't bounce around a lot)
I would forfeit 12k of my retirement fund that is not vested.
No kids
House payment 1k
Various monthly expenses ~3k on the high side, taxes/insurance/gym and other major expenses were recently paid for the year
no other debts
cash (emergency fund/savings/various lower risk easily liquidated investments) 50k
Easy to sell assets no loan attached (truck/bike/toys/outdoor equipment) 30k
The majority of my paycheck goes into various investment accounts and a lot is deducted
Is this a terrible idea?
TL:DR I want to quit my job, I have roughly a year of my salary in savings/cash/assets I could liquidate. My wife is employed in a stable job with a fantastic work life balance. This job is causing my personal relationships and life to suffer.
edit:I forgot to mention that I applied for and was accepted to a local leadership program. It's 8 weeks across the next 6 months and my current employer denied the time off for me to attend this even though I was planning on paying for it out of my pocket. This was the straw that broke the camels back, that there is no personal development within the company, and when I look outside of the company to improve myself I can't even. My deadline to accept is this Friday, but the first session isn't until Mid July.
Submitted June 13, 2017 at 01:28PM by iwishiwasapumpkin86 http://ift.tt/2rePLdC
