Have a great job with benefits but have to travel and be away from your spouse and kids a lot and work long hours....or have a mediocre job of which you're home daily for dinner that has benefits? I just don't understand families that work 12 - 14 hour days and allow daycares to raise their kids. What say you?
2007-03-06 03:49:57 · 17 answers · asked by Mom of One in Wisconsin 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
My husband works 12-14 hour days sometimes and once in a blue moon has to travel out of town overnight.
He does it because it's what he's got to do to afford for his family the kind of lifestyle he wants them to have. It's the most unselfish thing I can think of.
He grew up poor and watched his mother live her life working long hours cleaning houses to raise her children alone- never accomplishing any of her own goals- never finishing college, and he wants better for his family.
2007-03-06 03:54:28 · answer #1 · answered by Jen F 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I would rather have the mediocre job so I could come home. More and more jobs are expecting people to work 10 or 20 hours of overtime a week, the money is better but why have a house if you can never go there and do anything.
2007-03-06 11:54:00 · answer #2 · answered by jw1269 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Money and benefits mean nothing to me if I don't have love in my life- I'd take the mediocre job and have a lot of time to spend with the ones I love. When I'm ready to go, I am going to look back at the memories and the time spent, not my occupation and my money.
2007-03-06 11:54:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My job now has me travelling sometimes 10 weeks at a time. I have just accepted a transfer to a new position with no travelling, more money, and I get to see my bf every day!! Go me
2007-03-06 11:54:30 · answer #4 · answered by ♥ Ladylike ♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i would definately choose a job that lets me see my family every day, as long as i was making enough to support them.......and the benefits too, that is part of taking care of yourself and a family.......i work 2nd shift and my fiance works 1st shift and we live together and never see each other........it really is not worth it, i mean money does not buy you time with your family.........i feel like i don't know my fiance anymore......and we have almost broken up over this........well, lets just say we are going downhill at this point in time.
2007-03-06 11:54:17 · answer #5 · answered by SuzyBelle04 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wellt hats what happened with womens lib.
So you should say that the woman shoudl stay home and take care of the kids??
Or maybe the husband should give up his job instead and take care of the kids?
Hey why not one or the other?
What say you?
2007-03-06 11:56:54 · answer #6 · answered by Triskelion 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats why I dont have children ..i cant justify not being w/ them and working so hard ...i feel for the families that have this strain and guilt..i was always alone as a child and teen and my sister later was always in daycare ,i just dont want that...i will wait till I can be home and homeschool my little brats
2007-03-06 11:52:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love and family first! What is the point of huge amounts of cash if you waste your life away from your loved ones? No amount of money will buy back those precious moments you've lost. I would rather die feeling loved, cherished and blessed then bitter, lonely and disappointed but wealthy.
2007-03-06 12:05:13 · answer #8 · answered by jovvijo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I made a decision not to accept a job not to long ago because I would be away from my family a lot! I just couldn't do that
2007-03-06 11:53:17 · answer #9 · answered by ?Sherbear ? 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The job where I get to go home to dinner. Its good cuz we all need time to spend with ourselves or the kids if you have any.
2007-03-06 11:55:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋