Here's my situation:
My fiance is getting her PhD in neuroscience. She gets a stipend of about $27k/year. I work in IT full time and make about $70k/year. This allows us to live pretty comfortably.
The thing is, I merely tolerate my job and even have days (like today) where I think "I wish I could just drop this fucking corporate job and go work in a pet store or maintenance or something." We only have another 4-5 years in the state we're in (until she graduates) and then we'll be moving somewhere else for wherever she gets her post doc position. I foresee 2 options for me at that point:
- See if I can work my job remotely. This would remove the commute and the office setting/noise.
- Look for a job local to the area we move to that aligns with more of what I want, which likely isn't even IT related or pay as much as I make now.
The dream life is that my fiance opens her own lab at a university and gets tenured, which would end up paying very well. This would allow me to drop out of the corporate world and work in a pet shop like I want to.
1. Have any of you been able to make the switch from office to home in the same job that you're meh about? Did it make it more tolerable?
2. For those of you that downgraded your careers, how did you balance the joy of working a simpler job and having less to put towards savings/emergency funds?
Submitted February 25, 2019 at 05:39PM by [deleted] https://ift.tt/2H2HO67
