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[quote=Anonymous]My kids' dad lost his job 3 months ago. He was making $175k and was paying 60% of childcare and carried the kids on his health insurance. Now, I'm paying for all of childcare ($2000/m) and had to get the kids on marketplace health insurance ($1100/m) because my job doesn't offer dependent insurance. He has not gotten unemployment yet. He keeps giving me the run around about xyz is making his application not go through so I'm unsure if he was laid off or fired. He has a current burn rate of $3600/m on a $21k severance.

I make $130k and am very happy on all fronts with my job. We are a fully remote company, I have flexibility to step out for kids things or drop offs. I can easily move laundry along and throw easy dinners in the oven. I have great work life balance all around. I'm intellectually stimulated by what I do. My coworkers and senior leadership are GREAT- kind, collaborative, supportive. When I got divorced, two of our C-Suite called me and encouraged me to remember that they care about output vs hours and as long as I'm meeting or exceeding, use the flexibility I need.

The downsides- This year I got a significant promotion to $130k so no more raises here likely for a long while. No dependent health insurance option.

My new title will put me in a great position to make $150-170k somewhere else eventually. Do I start the job search knowing I can't rely on my ex? Stick it out because I truly feel like I have a unicorn job?

I went from having a $3100/m buffer to now just $800/m assuming no extra things come up. It's the last year of a daycare bill, both kids will be in public next year.

WWYD?[/quote]

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