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Dear Abby: Is Stressful Job I Keep Working to Pay the Bills Tanking My Life’s Dreams?
A woman working in tech marketing faces depression and financial stress, with advice to try part-time work and set a one-year deadline to pursue her novelist dream.
- Recently, a woman in her early 30s in California who recently moved to a house says she has friends, hobbies and dreams but feels depressed by her work and loses joy in free time.
- Because she has worked in tech marketing in recent years, she stays in the high-stress role mainly to pay the bills and keep the house, fearing quitting would unfairly burden her husband.
- She says she usually manages stress by running, writing and time with loved ones, has a history of thyroid cancer, and dreams of novel-writing despite feeling like a failure.
- Dear Abby advised giving herself a one-year deadline to test interest in writing and recommended consulting a financial adviser and CPA to arrange a fair household plan.
- She is asking whether she should change her financial arrangement with her husband, depositing pay into her own account then transferring funds to the joint checking account, as he recently insisted she pay her own medical bills and keeps a separate account.
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Dear Abby: Work pressure is crushing my dreams
Dear Abby: I am in my early 30s and happy in certain aspects of my life: I recently moved to a house and married a man I love very much. I have friends, hobbies and dreams. One of these dreams is to be a novelist, although I do marketing for a tech company right now. This brings me to my problem: I have been feeling depressed by my job. Working in tech marketing is not something I enjoy; it’s something I have done in recent years to pay the bill…
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