My wife and I have been employed for eleven years since we got married. I am a loan officer in one of the leading rural bank in the city, while she is teaching in a private school. Being engaged in reputable companies with supervisory position, we are earning more than the minimum wage. But after deducting all the expenses due for that salary cut-off we see ourselves empty handed. The expenses, bills, payables and budget for the coming two weeks are more than what we received.
That’s the usual scenario; weeks after weeks, months after months, the deficit keeps filing up and the needs keeps coming in. Until we came up to a realization that we are already deeply involved in debt. More so when we had our first child. As the need for milk formula, diapers, vitamins and other necessities an infant has, we were not able to get out on loan but, even more buried.
Then there came to our knowledge the idea of working at home. At first, it was really a struggle since the business we started was not earning considerably for the first few months. But weighing everything from the advantages to the disadvantages we were thankful that we did a great decision.
Of all the good things that we appreciate being in the house most of the time is the fact that we were spending more quality and quantity time with our child. Unlike the first born who seems like to be stranger to us and is closer to the nanny than us parents, the youngest who experience being us in the home is more closer to us and we as couple became more intimate and have known each other better. Though it’s kinda uncanny since we’ve been married for more than a decade, but staying in the house the whole day for everyday of your lives develops closer and stronger relationship. We were able to see how our kids had grown so wonderfully with our full guidance. The amount that are supposed to pay for the tutors are redirected to spend for the kids’ pleasure. We were able to attend every recital, PTA meetings, and other school activities which the kids enjoy so much. There, we were able to pass on indirectly to the kids that it is far more better be an entrepreneur than being employed and confined to the four corners of the office.
Being engaged in an organization or company that somehow gives assurance of security due to the regular salary is good, however, earning depending on your own effort but in one way or another restore broken relationship and keeping the family intact and closer is a choice one must decide now.