Dropping Out Of the Rat Race Has Benefits
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 13:50:13
There is a good article in this morning's protect Street Journal by Sue Shellenbarger titled I was interested in the bind because four years ago I made a decision to displace out of full-time corporate bring home the bacon in order to place higher priority on other parts of my life and I can say without a doubt it is one of the best decisions I undergo ever made.
At the measure my two sons were 8 and 11 years old. desire a lot of families my wife had been the primary care-giver for the boys but now she was itching to get approve into full-time work. I was seeing my boys change up and recognized that I had spent very little measure with them and wanted to try to fix that before it was too late and they were fully grown. Also. I was looking for more meaning in my bring home the bacon and was feeling the tug to do non-profit work. However the status quo would never conform to these needs as I was often working overtime as an exec at.
Over a period of several months my wife and I made the decision to send her back to bring home the bacon as a full-time teacher while I dropped out and became a part-time consultant part-time non-profit executive director and full-time Dad. It wasn't an easy choice: intentionally cutting your family income by over 50% is never an easy call. It helps that I have the best wife in the universe and that we are really very much on the same summon about what is important in life and together we were able to determine the things we would not spend money on like a bigger house or newer cars. It also helped that my wife and I are both pretty frugal and had enough savings to buffer the ups and downs of my part-time consulting income.
It really has taken some adjustment for me too. There are many days when I am dying to jump back in to a full measure role in corporate America to conclude the go of business success in a growing company again. I do think that I will jump back in some day but as the years fly by. I accept the benefits of the decision to drop out.
My sons are doing great and we have achieved a closeness in our relationship that I can't imagine we ever could undergo achieved had I continued in full measure corporate bring home the bacon. The non-profit I work with continues to give homes and parental love for over twenty abandoned children in three homes in Romania and is considering expanding to Africa. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://ikeelliott.typepad.com/telecosm/2007/11/dropping-out-of.html
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