Is it worth it to give up my job just to be with my first child,when my job is mainly for his future?
Hi! I'm Loren.I am newbie here and to be honest I'm not that good at any computer-related thing because I'm not interested before, I don't know but maybe because of my profession? ( i'm here trying to convince myself that i'm normal,haha) but since my husband introduced this steemit, I immediately fell in love with the concept,so while he is patiently teaching me all about this amazing steemit (which probably take a week/month/year for me to learn haha) I can't stop myself posting my story hoping that I will inspire other steemians especially moms out there.
I’m a nurse. I love my job. I worked for 8 months as a volunteer nurse, and 2 years as a staff nurse in the Philippines. Being a nurse is one of the most interesting profession I know, since I've got the chance to touches other lives from birth to death. It always amazes me to deal with different diseases that I never imagine existed. Aside from that, it's really my passion to serve other people. But since I have the obligation to help my family and 127 USD salary/ month is not enough for them, I decided to go abroad. I went to Riyadh,KSA. I didn’t get high salary compared to other nurses but still,it took me 3 & 1/2 years before I resigned. I lend from the bank to finance family business, thinking that if they have everyday income of their own, I can get the chance to save money for me. But unfortunately after a couple of months of my loan, something happened, an outbreak of MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) arises. Since that time there's no cure or vaccine for that, I decided to go back home ( I can't die yet ,my family still needs me-haha) During that time I haven't finish my loan yet. I can apply emergency exit, without telling the bank I can run from it like most of the expatraite are doing since the bank is insured and as per policy the government will pay them. But I didn’t do that, because I don't want sleepless nights and I believe in "karma". So I ask my mother to borrow money from the Philippines and I paid the bank and went home. Obviously it's not a good journey, but I didn't regret it, because in that place I met my 2 years online boyfriend and now my beloved husband (lucky me!)
Due to high competency of nurses, it took me 8 months to find another opportunity abroad. I'm currently working here in Oman for 1 & 1/2 years. Every month I'm paying my debt (the money that I used to pay for my loan in KSA and the expenses for my application here in Oman). Oh! by the way my family sell the passenger van that I gave for business :( The reason? (another story) .
As of now I have 7 months remaining to clear all my debts but I have only 2 months after that, to save money for my baby. I can't renew or let us say I don't want to renew, since I can't imagine my life being far away from my first son .I'm 6 1/2 months pregnant now (thanks God!).Since my company will not give resident visa for my baby because I am female and they're only giving resident visa under father's name (unfair huh!) me and my husband decided not to renew my contract :( . After my contract on April 2017, I will go back home for good.
When I'm not pregnant yet, I planned to stay here for 3 years. After 1 year and 10 months of paying my debt at least I have 1 year and 2 months to save for my future family, enough time to build our own house and enough money to start a business so I can settle at home with my family. But life is unpredictable, we can always plan for our future, but if it is not God's plan, it will never happen. I love my son. He's the best thing that happened into my life and I can give up everything for him, but since this job (a well-compensated job )is mainly for him.I'm always thinking if someday my son will be proud of me that I gave up my job for him?
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