My husband and I have been having an ongoing discussion about whether I should quit the "office" job. (He wants me to quit....) We can easily meet our monthly income requirements between his job and my booming side business, and all our "benefits" are through his job, so the "office" job isn't a necessity.
Emotionally, I'm ready to quit, but mentally I keep putting it off because I like having that extra money each month guaranteed -- as opposed to having to go out and pimp myself to more clients for the booming side business.
If/when I do quit, a number of our expenses will go down. For instance, I won't have before- and after-school child care expenses (which is only averaging about $60 a month, so it's not huge but still a savings.) I also won't be paying for as much dry cleaning since the booming side business doesn't require even getting dressed if I don't want to. I'll be driving slightly less, so that means slightly less gas costs. And, Hazel the Housekeeper most likely will be let go since I'll need something to break up the days working at home, so pushing a vaccuum again might be in my future.
Not working at the "office" will allow me to have a life again. The booming side business has kind of consumed everything, so without the "office" job I can start working more regular hours at home instead of piecing together work hours here and there. I also can go back to being an anti-social/agoraphobic curmudgeon who rarely leaves the house, which is when I'm at my best.
I am now telling myself that I will give my 6 week notice on May 1. I'll be gone for about two of those weeks, so that's really 4 weeks notice. I could give them less notice, but I did tell someone I would help them out the last week of June so I figure I should stick to my word there.
Of course, I could come up with a thousand excuses not to quit between now and May, so this may all not come to pass but a girl can dream....
Do I want to be a quitter?
March 15th, 2008 at 07:57 pm
March 15th, 2008 at 08:58 pm
I guess this pretty much describes me since I work at home in my jammies from about 6:00 a.m. until about 8:30 a.m. when I stop to eat breakfast, shower and dress. I love being at home, sitting my own schedule. I usually try to work for 30 minutes, then get up and do a chore (like vacuuming) and then back at it for another 30 minutes, etc throughout the day until I stop to take the dogs for a walk. Unless you LOVE your office job... I would be giving notice.
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