Giving up Work at 30
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
King Herald said:
Watching my wife perform doing housework is an exercise in frustration. She works from dawn to dusk most, days, has ten different jobs on the go, runs back and forth between them, sighing and puffing and panting in frustration much of the time.
Just three of is live in the house....
I've carefully pointed out a hundred times to her to just focus on one job, finish it, move on, but I just get earache in return.
I've done my share of running a home so how does your theory work. You put the dinner on to cook, do you just stare at the oven until it's done. Same with running the washing machine or dish washer. Just three of is live in the house....
I've carefully pointed out a hundred times to her to just focus on one job, finish it, move on, but I just get earache in return.
Many jobs around the home require you to start a process, and then crack on with something else, and then come back to it later.
My way: Hoovering the house in the morning. Start it, do it all, finish it, put vacuum away. Job done.
Ironing. Start it, do it all, put it away when finished. Job Done.
Cooking dinner. Prepare all ingredients, form a time-frame based on experience for which parts need to start cooking first. All are cooked and ready to serve, hot and fresh.
etc etc
But my wife, she'll drag the hoover out, do one room, lean it against the wall. Then she'll decide to polish something in one room, and get halfway through, then she'll decide to change bed sheets in ALL rooms. They will be piled up downstairs. Then she'll stop for lunch, hoover still out, beds bare, polish and rags still on the table in one room. Then she'll decide to make bread, and have all that stuff out in the kitchen. Hoover still out, beds bare, polish and rags on the table, dirty bedclothes piled at the foot of the stairs.......
You get the idea now?
johnxjsc1985 said:
You need to make sure you have something to get out of bed for.
You missed the bit about the 4year old. There will be no issues with him getting up or being woken up!Take the pension take your boy to school, pick him up, enjoy the time with him when everyone else is getting an hour or two in the evenings with their kids. Your only 30 you could have 5 or 10 years off and if you get bored find something to do a few days a week.
If your bored while the little one is in school get a dog.
BoRED S2upid said:
You missed the bit about the 4year old. There will be no issues with him getting up or being woken up!
Take the pension take your boy to school, pick him up, enjoy the time with him when everyone else is getting an hour or two in the evenings with their kids. Your only 30 you could have 5 or 10 years off and if you get bored find something to do a few days a week.
If your bored while the little one is in school get a dog.
I forgot about the 4 year old. How cool for a young boy to have his dad available to him 24/7. Take the pension take your boy to school, pick him up, enjoy the time with him when everyone else is getting an hour or two in the evenings with their kids. Your only 30 you could have 5 or 10 years off and if you get bored find something to do a few days a week.
If your bored while the little one is in school get a dog.
glazbagun said:
29K a year after tax and car and only 30? I'd bite their hand off! So much you could learn and do while still young. Is there some stipulation that means you couldn't start your own company or business?
Sorry for the delay in updating this been a bit busy. Theres no stipulation in what i do. The spilt is £25k for pension and then its 7k for the AFIP both payable under the Guaranteed income payment until in 65 then my normal pension kicks in along with my state pension but my AFIP will not stop. All this is Tax free. With my Wage and this i sit on 58K after tax.
Ive had a few days off and whilst it was great i did get bored very easily as i can't sit about i need to be doing something. But from advice here i did sit down with my manager and HR director and explained everything to them. Form this my hours are slightly reduced to accommodate being to drop my DAUGHTER off at school ( unless my Oh is pregnant we only have 1) And the Team that i manage will always have 1 extra agency guy who will do all lifting. They explained that they do not want to lose me and even if this does not work there will be a role upstairs if i choose to take them up on it.
Now with me doing the above i just need to convince my Oh theres a need for a M2 or M4 in the house.
As others have said, if you decide to take a few years off now, there's nothing to stop you rejoining the workforce in a few years.
Why not have some time out now, enjoy spending time with your kids while thye are young, and use the opportunity to think aboyt what you really enjoy doing and how you could turn it into a job that works with your lifestyle?
That's what I would do.
Why not have some time out now, enjoy spending time with your kids while thye are young, and use the opportunity to think aboyt what you really enjoy doing and how you could turn it into a job that works with your lifestyle?
That's what I would do.
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