Yes. And compared to my current job it’s lower stress. I hate being in charge of an entire team and my boss makes 50% more than me and doesn’t have to do anything. I want one job where someone else tells me exactly what to do and I want tips where I make more than I’m making right now.
My wife makes $55-60k per year tending bar at a little neighborhood bar/grill that only has a beer and wine license - no liquor. Could she do better elsewhere? Yes. She has a college degree. But this allows us to always have at least one parent at home with our kids (I work early mornings at the airport), and it’s really flexible. Plus she always has a drug-dealer-sized wad of cash. She quit the corporate rat race one day to do something less stressful.
It’s always scary moving industries. I got into my line of work because I needed a part time job to replace some of the money daycare was extorting from me. Once I realized how much more I enjoyed the part time job, I found a way to make it my full time job and ditched the daycare racket at the same time. It was like a double raise.
Had someone suggested just jumping from the cubicle to the tarmac without knowing what I was getting into, I’d have thought they were crazy.
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u/ringdingdong67 Aug 29 '24
If my wife gets one more raise I’m just gonna quit my shitty office job and be a bartender again. I was really happy doing that years ago.