Posted on 04/06/2024 7:18:59 AM PDT by CMS
i just turned down my absolute dream job
I received a $55 hour job offer
But because it would require me to go to Abu Daubi for 2 years, I can't accept. I can't leave my daughter with minimal contact for that long. especially when your daughter says " daddy why do you want to move further from me?" her asking that broke me and is why declined the jon"
family comes first no exceptions
I wish my father would have been like you. We moved my senior year of high school. We only moved 100 miles away in the same state, it was a lateral move within the same company, and he could have done the job where we lived. To this day, I don’t know why, but I do know it affected me, and not positively.
Good! Another dream job, making up pun-ney names for craft beers, may be just around the corner like it was for this lucky dad: https://babylonbee.com/news/dad-lands-dream-job-at-brewery-coming-up-with-puns-for-naming-beers
Please give us more information. What exactly is this dream job, and how do the pay and benefits of the dream job compared to whatever it is you do for a living right now?
Are you divorced or never married, and is that why you only talk about a daughter, and no mention of a wife or the mother of the daughter? Do you have an estranged relationship with the mother of your daughter?
I know a guy that moved his family to Viet Nam for a high paying banking job. It was supposeed to be for two years. After the two years they held his retiremnt and other investments and wouldn’t let him go. His family moved back to the US and he was not able to leave Viet Nam or let his family back to visit. After five years total, they let him leave with his retirement, etc.
My dad worked overseas for two years at a stretch.
It was not a good move. Very detrimental.
If you have no choice you can overcome. But willingly? No.
It’s not just sadness. It’s actual outcome. Boys or girls growing up without a decent dad in their everyday life do not turn out well on many metrics.
Millions of Americans had no father in their homes for 1, 2, or 3 years during World War II. Somehow we managed to emerge with good values. What has changed?
Of course, having a mother and a father in the home is ideal but sometimes it’s not possible.
Just wait until Biden’s second term then minimum wage will be more than $55 an hour.
For $30k a month I went to AFGH four different times for 6 month stretches...
$55 an hour is not much of wage...
TV wasn’t a thing yet.
Rock-n-Roll!
I think the difference there is, dad left temporarily (sadly sometimes permanently) to fight for them and for their country.
Not for their own satisfaction or convenience. They cared deeply and did not want to leave their family.
Rather like a dad who died rather than a dad who took off to party. One still knows one is loved if your dad passed away.
When they choose to leave; when they prefer to leave; when they see leaving as perfectly fine, and care not whether they hug you good night, arrange your birthday, help with your homework, have dinner with you, enjoy your company and set the example and standards in the home. . .
the results are horrific. Sorry.
I agree the results today are horrific. Many of the fatherless homes today do not even have a competent, caring mother, or even Grandmother in them.
You are correct. Not even TV much less the Internet and kids own phones to watch TikTok all day long.
Well now we are admiring you a@@h@@@ness.
Well.... no.
You might want to check out the statistics for divorce during WW2. And some of the other problems that popped up later.
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