![]() I am terrified of getting a summer job: The new environment, people, noise, smells, etc. I live rent-free, and my parents are insistent I work this summer. I am constantly spending way more than I should. My savings are okay, but it is not nearly as much as my parents think I have. I really like teaching (the schedule, rules, and expectations make sense) but I make a charter school teacher’s salary. I’m not a good or great teacher, but I am not terrible at it either. I live with my parents to save money and teach at a local school. She’ll Thank Me Later.Īfter college, I was diagnosed with high-functioning autism/ADHD. I’m Putting the Kibosh on My Teen’s Most Lucrative Babysitting Job. I’m just trying to have a decent career and a family, and it seems like now I’m monumentally screwed on both fronts. I’m not trying to answer emails from a beach in Fiji or work two full-time jobs at once or whatever horror story these companies seem to have bought into. I am seriously debating trying long-distance with my spouse while I work elsewhere for a year, but the fact that I’m even having to consider that just makes me exhausted and angry. Even if we wanted to move (which we don’t) we couldn’t unless my spouse obtains a different job. I am able to travel monthly, but that doesn’t seem to move the needle. I am applying to the jobs that still offer remote but so is everyone else on the job market, it seems, and my lack of those certifications is I think contributing to the fact that I’m not getting much response on my applications. On average, they are now talking about hybrid work as the best of both worlds, which is fine except that I now live three hours from any of the offices they want me to attend three days a week. At worst, companies are asking for on-site employment for work that I know from experience absolutely does not need to be done on-site. ![]() So now I’m job-hunting in 2023 and my industry is singing a different tune about remote work. Once he was again employed we tried to revisit the budget to see what could be salvaged, but shortly after that, I was informed that my contract would not be renewed due to a workload reduction. Everything went on hold until he obtained a new job, which is on-site in our new area and does not pay as well as his last one did. We put most of our profit from the sale of our last house into the downpayment of the new one, but with our jobs at the time we were still able to budget out a plan to have all our credit card debt paid off, another round of IVF scheduled (the first one failed), and still have funds to pay for certification coursework that would help me advance my career and obtain a new job by the end of 2022.Ī month after we set that budget, my spouse was laid off. ![]() We were undergoing IVF, and we wanted to be closer to grandparents and be able to afford a bigger house for children. Home prices in our city had risen so we could make considerable profit off our starter house but could no longer afford the next-step family home in the area. Last year, when my entire industry was waxing poetic about the benefits of remote work, my husband and I moved out of our major metropolitan area to be closer to his parents in a rural area of another state. Have a question? Send it to Athena and Elizabeth here.
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