Just ranting here. ;)
My wife has been on me to find a full time job so that we can have more spending money which would be fine but she already has a job that pays well above what our rational living cost are and I also have side work and part time work that pays for over half our combined living expenses as well plus we are (well I am, she's just *****ing about it) a new house this summer.
I did a job interview for a local company but ended with turning them down when they said that they expected 60 - 70+ hour a week work from me. That's way over what I can handle and do a major home construction job on as well. My wife however is pissed to no end being she says I am lazy yet she only works a 40 hour a week desk job and barely manages to handle that.
I have told my wife a number of times I will happily take on a 70 hour work week plus the house job when she does the same and I do not consider our daily home chores part of the work hours being she can burn up a most of a day doing something I knock out in a hour. That said I view the daily home chores as a job done value not a who put more hours into doing an overall less productive effort.
Her view of the house project is that we should take out a huge loan ($200 - $300K for $1500 a month for 30 years) and pay contractors to do it for us so that it gets done quicker. I am dead against it being the contractor costs are outrageous for what they do.
For example to get the basement formed and poured the lowest bid was $30K and I was supplying 100% of the materials I already have the hole dug. No frigging way am I paying $30K in labor to two goons to do what I can do myself even if it takes me a month and to a likely higher end quality than they would do. (They were the low bidders after all.)
Mostly I am just tired of being expected to work to no end to so that we can burn through cash like there is no end to it rather than work smarter and on a reasonable budget.
BTW as is we make a combined ~$60K as is so we are by no means financially hurting and the work I can do could push us to $100K + easily enough but at the expense of me having near zero home life.
Am I being selfish and lazy or does the princess need to get out of her tower and come down and live with the common folk and learn that not all of us are born wealthy millionaires with unlimited resources or the drive to work 100+ hour weeks until they die? :confused:
My wife has been on me to find a full time job so that we can have more spending money which would be fine but she already has a job that pays well above what our rational living cost are and I also have side work and part time work that pays for over half our combined living expenses as well plus we are (well I am, she's just *****ing about it) a new house this summer.
I did a job interview for a local company but ended with turning them down when they said that they expected 60 - 70+ hour a week work from me. That's way over what I can handle and do a major home construction job on as well. My wife however is pissed to no end being she says I am lazy yet she only works a 40 hour a week desk job and barely manages to handle that.
I have told my wife a number of times I will happily take on a 70 hour work week plus the house job when she does the same and I do not consider our daily home chores part of the work hours being she can burn up a most of a day doing something I knock out in a hour. That said I view the daily home chores as a job done value not a who put more hours into doing an overall less productive effort.
Her view of the house project is that we should take out a huge loan ($200 - $300K for $1500 a month for 30 years) and pay contractors to do it for us so that it gets done quicker. I am dead against it being the contractor costs are outrageous for what they do.
For example to get the basement formed and poured the lowest bid was $30K and I was supplying 100% of the materials I already have the hole dug. No frigging way am I paying $30K in labor to two goons to do what I can do myself even if it takes me a month and to a likely higher end quality than they would do. (They were the low bidders after all.)
Mostly I am just tired of being expected to work to no end to so that we can burn through cash like there is no end to it rather than work smarter and on a reasonable budget.
BTW as is we make a combined ~$60K as is so we are by no means financially hurting and the work I can do could push us to $100K + easily enough but at the expense of me having near zero home life.
Am I being selfish and lazy or does the princess need to get out of her tower and come down and live with the common folk and learn that not all of us are born wealthy millionaires with unlimited resources or the drive to work 100+ hour weeks until they die? :confused:
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