I can relate to you about fatherhood changing my perspective towards my job. It doesn't really matter to me that I don't love the work I do, because it allows my family to lead a good life.
If I weren't a parent, I would have taken a lower paying job that I found a little more fulfilling, but that would pale in comparison to the fulfillment of providing for our daughter and being able to spend as much time with her as I get to.
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I’m gonna make a similar trade off soon. Gonna apply to teach at an elementary school (even though I prefer teaching teenagers) so that I can enrol my son there and take him to school in future. I think what I realised is that the better I simplify n streamline my life, the less stressed I would feel about parenting. So the sacrifices are worth it
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It's hard for me to imagine giving up working from home, now that I've experienced how much more I get to see my family everyday. Someone would have to make me a pretty killer offer.
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