Ask your husband what HE wants to do with work Now let’s look at the relationship aspects. Okay, so those are the financial considerations about quitting your job. Once you figure out what your family’s priorities are and you have a date for them, then it’s easier to see whether quitting your job is worth it. Do you want to buy a house? Do you want to pay off your house? Pay off debt? Save for retirement? Save for kids’ college? Take a vacation? And, if so, do you have a time frame for these things? If you don’t, you should. Part of doing that budget, too, is making goals. You could throw yourself into reducing your expenses.īut no decision about quitting your job should be made until you at least do the budget together. You could learn how to spend less on groceries. You could, for instance, decide to downsize. Now, just because your current budget doesn’t work with less of an income doesn’t mean that you can’t quit your job. I’d highly recommend Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover, and his Every Dollar app. You really can’t make this decision without seeing whether the finances work. That means that you simply need a budget. I want to look first at just the generic question–when is it okay to quit your job? Then we’ll zero in on the more spiritual aspect of when you think you hear something from God, and your husband doesn’t, which, to me, is really the more important question! Before you quit your job, decide on a budget together–complete with goalsĪny time you’re wondering whether you should leave a job or whether you should change your work schedule and thus your income, you need to get on the same page financially. I also heard the Lord tell me that if my husband would let me be at home, he will bless him doubly. My husband works at home, so it isn’t like we don’t have any income coming in, if I do. I feel now is the right time to jump on God’s plan, I feel he has given me clue after clue, but I am worried my husband will be extremely upset if I do. In the mean time, my position at work is going away and I am going to be re-assigned to something else. I have talked it over with my husband, but he says he doesn’t understand why God would tell me, and not him. I feel he has a mission for me, to go out and witness to people, I am very good at it and I love doing it! I have heard God tell me so many things and my heart feels it is right. I work full time, and I am pretty sure I can hear God telling me that it is time to stop working and be a housewife. Here’s a woman who is asking, “should I quit my job?”. And since on Mondays I like to answer reader questions, I thought I’d post this reader question to get us started! This week at Bare Marriage we’re going to be talking about how we do family life–how we decide when to work, when to have kids, and how to leave a legacy. Should you quit your job? What if you feel like God is telling you to quit your job, but your husband doesn’t agree?
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