I know, you are probably saying..of course you should! Let me give you some background. I currently have two jobs and one of them is about to end on Monday. It is a contract that expires. It should get renewed, but the funding won’t be available until december or so. The problem is, this job provides at least 3/4 of my income; and that is where my predicament is.
We have been living on two salaries for quite a while now and are accustomed to a comfortable lifestyle. By comfortable I mean we don’t have to live paycheck to paycheck and if we want to buy something, it’s relatively easy to do depending on the cost obviously. Well, we are moving to a foreign country where they don’t speak English and my income will be a fraction of what it is now. We haven’t sold our house here so we will be making two house payments. I do have my business, which is pretty steady right now, unfortunately we haven’t been paying ourselves yet and are just putting money into the company. It may be time to do that though. It isn’t busy enough to replace my current income but it would help.
I have been pretty spoiled lately with my jobs. I am allowed to work from home and my schedule is flexible. That means if I want to pick up my kids at 3 and take them to the beach for a couple of hours, I can, as long as I do my work. I tend to spread my work out throughout the day and work around my families schedules. It is certainly a luxury but I like being able to go on field trips. or if my son is sick, I can put him in bed and not miss work.
Drew is already in Belgium and has already talked to a few people who are interested in me. But I really have no desire to go work in an office right now. I realize if we need the money I will have to. But should I be selfish and try to work from home with my other contract as well as projects that come from my business? Money will be tight I think, but we shouldn’t be needing anything. Last month we were too busy that we sent away 8k worth of business.
I’m leaning towards the selfish part unless we need the money. The other contract should return later in the year.
