The old saying goes if you pay peanuts you are going to get monkeys and let’s just say in my working life I have had my fair share of bananas!
I worked as an airport security officer for 9 years x-raying bags to keep the planes in the sky while passengers looked at me and the people in my profession as inconvenient speed bumps on the way to where they needed to be.
My wife and I were living the life of a modern two income family but with three kids in childcare and before and after school care it was costing us a small fortune to have others watch our kids. We were always working yet we were always broke, it was a never ending cycle of working to pay childcare and paying childcare to work! Something had to give. We weighed up the pros and cons of two incomes with the cost of childcare compared to one income childcare free and we made a decision.
At the request of my wife, I quit my job and embarked on my journey in to the world of a home maker, stay-at-home dad and househusband. My wife had been home with the first two kids using that time to study and when she was ready she started a career in office management her true passion is paperwork and with the independence and the self-esteem one gets through a healthy working life there was no way we were going to get this little filing ninja back into the house without some serious origami.
It was a massive step for me to quit my job and go from frontline airport security to the washing line. Just like my time in airport security my day still consists of getting people to and from where they need to be and instead of being looked at as a speed bump, I’m now carefully driving over them on school runs and other dad taxi services. And instead of confiscating scissors from old ladies; I’m preventing an almost 4 year old from a fatal accident with a pair and I’m still doing bag checks only instead looking for traces of explosives; I’m looking for traces of nuts!
Financially we are just as broke as before if not slightly more so but we are rich in family life I would take a cuddle on the couch over a hand full of peanuts any day.
I worked as an airport security officer for 9 years x-raying bags to keep the planes in the sky while passengers looked at me and the people in my profession as inconvenient speed bumps on the way to where they needed to be.
My wife and I were living the life of a modern two income family but with three kids in childcare and before and after school care it was costing us a small fortune to have others watch our kids. We were always working yet we were always broke, it was a never ending cycle of working to pay childcare and paying childcare to work! Something had to give. We weighed up the pros and cons of two incomes with the cost of childcare compared to one income childcare free and we made a decision.
At the request of my wife, I quit my job and embarked on my journey in to the world of a home maker, stay-at-home dad and househusband. My wife had been home with the first two kids using that time to study and when she was ready she started a career in office management her true passion is paperwork and with the independence and the self-esteem one gets through a healthy working life there was no way we were going to get this little filing ninja back into the house without some serious origami.
It was a massive step for me to quit my job and go from frontline airport security to the washing line. Just like my time in airport security my day still consists of getting people to and from where they need to be and instead of being looked at as a speed bump, I’m now carefully driving over them on school runs and other dad taxi services. And instead of confiscating scissors from old ladies; I’m preventing an almost 4 year old from a fatal accident with a pair and I’m still doing bag checks only instead looking for traces of explosives; I’m looking for traces of nuts!
Financially we are just as broke as before if not slightly more so but we are rich in family life I would take a cuddle on the couch over a hand full of peanuts any day.