Reality check: Spouse - new job - workload

Anonymous
300k/year "corporate" jobs with great benefits are incredibly hard to find in a GOOD job market let alone a terrible one.

You need to be more realistic with your expectations.

I wouldn't assume he is the problem. Tech job layoffs are very common.
Anonymous
The bar is always high for someone without the 300k job!
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:If there is truly an emergency, your husband will fly back from Spain just the same as he would fly back from CA.

Your husband is smart to say that he needs to take the job. The job market is terrible. There are many threads about this.

Also, many people do not live near family and have spouses who travel or work a lot of hours. I’m not saying it’s easy but it seems like life would get a lot harder if your husband were home and unemployed.

Perhaps you should start a thread in one of the parenting groups about tips for dealing with your kids on your own and your specific concerns related to your child with disabilities. I’m not being snarky.


Good point. I feel disappointed in him it is a second time in 2 years, he got let go. He works 16 hours or so/ day, doesn’t take any time off. Yet he got let go. In his previous job, he also reported to the CEO. Something is not adding up here and I don’t feel he has skills to be an executive. And I simply don’t want to support him with his career anymore.

I am very much concerned about a lack of paycheck but it is my boring job that provides health insurance. His “fancy” tech job doesn’t. If he takes this offer, I don’t know how long I will manage. I am not even working for a paycheck, I am working to get medical insurance as our kid has massive needs and we would never manage without insurance.

I wanted to encourage him to go to the traditional corporate America and increase his salary from 200 to 300 and get solid medical insurance.

He said he needs at least a year to figure out a switch from tech to corporate. That is massively long imo.

I don’t know I guess the bottom line is I wish I had not married him. Oh well, life sucks.


Why do you think he can just jump into corporate making $300k? Is he like an attorney or something in the tech?


These jumps tend to require relocation.
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