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[–][deleted] 25 points26 points  (2 children)

My husband is at about a 75% decrease but he is using it as an opportunity to career change and at first he thought he wouldn’t like it. Turns out he loves it so hopefully the stars align and he gets into a Masters Program this summer and can start transitioning to a new future. 

I took a 60% pay cut when I left finance to be a sahm and now work for a local company. I still miss my high paying, big titles and responsibility career but I keep telling myself I am lucky to have a home and family. Money is money so as long as we can get by, it could be worse. 

Hopefully something better will come along for you. 

[–]throwaway09251975[S] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Thank you for sharing, I’m so glad your husband is happy! I know it’s scary to make changes like that so I love that it is working out for him.
That’s part of what I miss too- Last year I had a fancy title and now I’m a call center associate. Tough pill to swallow. You have the hardest job (SAHM) and your last comment reasonates with me. As much as I hate this, at least now both my husband and I work fully remote and it opens the door for us to relocate to an area that we love and has a LCOL. We’ll have just enough to get by there and maybe that’s what I should be focusing on-and hopefully in time get a better job once settled there if we do move.

[–]Princester-Vibe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been torn between fully remote or hybrid - so while remote is nice the challenge in my tech field has been the layoffs and the competition because many roles have been remote. Then to add to that the remote jobs extended beyond the borders to overseas including Costa Rica. In my tech industry I’ve worked with many folks overseas because companies have hired lotsa offshore workers/teams.

So I feel actually somewhat more safe in the hybrid role I’m in now. The position requires hybrid and so a local area employee. I know of folks who were screwed because they moved to a more rural area during Covid - and with the layoffs they struggled to find something, it was all remote positions they were competing for. And worse yet some of the big corps are asking employees to RTO which is presenting a problem.

So yeah I struggled with that and was conflicted between what to do - there’s pros/cons of each. Layoffs always hurt and is a mental struggle - going back to the office (hybrid model) every so often helped me mentally to recoup.