Why Did You Quit Your Career?

I quit my job after pregnancy and I did some courses to update myself as am home now.
However..the urge to get back to a career is not yet there.
My reasons..

1)Never really very career oriented.
2) I do get some small happiness being at home, making snacks and cooking fresh meals for hubby and kiddo though.
3) I enjoy going to gym everyday, taking care of myself, watching movies a lot at home and getting everything done within the week so that weekends are free.
4)I don't have to worry about a 2 week vacation to India but I have a two month vacation every time coz am home.
5) I am not confident if I will manage work and home coz it is stressful and I feel why I should go through that when we are happy with whatever little we have.

My reasons are not very strong ones.Not working outside has it cons too like you do get bored at home, you don't see many people and people accuse you of not having an identity.I am ok with my Identity as a housewife right now and it is just a choice which I made.

 

Hi,
My Mil made me quit my job...stating I need to know how to make the "family life" and working women is often irresponsible toward home and has attitude and earning gives her freedom to do anything..
My DH always listens to MOMMY DEAREST...

I m looking for a job now after arguing for almost 6 years of marriage and hopefully will work soon.

 

Hi,
I quit my job during my marriage as i have relocate to mumbai as my husband was working there.I had plenty of job opportunities there than for him in my city. I got a job offer in mumbai within a month or so but i had my pregnancy confirmation on the same day. This job location was quite far from the place where i lived,also i started having my pregnancy symptoms like nausea..tiredness etc., So i decided not to join the company.Later I moved out of the country,it has been 8 years now since i quit. Reasons for not getting back to job
1) No support to take care of kid here
2) Career break makes it very difficult to get a job.
3) Not much of financial crunch (husband earns better)
4) Lot of ME time, never have to worry about leave for going to india, I am able to balance my family and me very well so now am scared to leave my happy zone.
5)I am able to justify to myself that am able to support my kid and my husband in their hard times and give my best as a parent to my kid.
Though i have above reasons ,sometimes i feel bad that i just let go my career in no time. The dilemma always dwells whether to get to back to job or not.

 

Hi,

I was /am career oriented .Was employed in a tier 1 IT MNC. I quit my job to relocate with my husband post my marriage. Found a job in the new country ,but had to quit again after I had my daughter (since I did not have any support to bring her up).Once she started pre school, i joined a company which is not a big MNC, the pay is not great either.But the boss is very accommodating when it comes to my child, i also have flexible working hours.At this point, my priority is not the amount in my monthly pay cheque.
In my previous job, I was overlooked during appraisal and a male colleague was given better rating. When I enquired about this to my PL, he replied that there is a higher chance of women relocating/quitting after marriage (and i was at a marriageable age) . He felt keeping the male colleague happy was a better bet . He consoled me by saying, dont worry you are presentable,smart and capable. you will definitely go places.

 

Prior to marriage I was working in Gurgaon. Post marriage I relocated to a small town so had to quit job. Within 6 months of marriage I found a job, but hubby was against it. Deep inside his fears were that once I m financially independent I won't be in his control. That was the end of my career.

 

Prior to my wedding, I was a web developer and I was doing great.
My main reason to quit was because I wanted to start a family. But the fire within me hasn't extinguished entirely.
Now that my kid has grown up and is a little more responsible than he was before, I am thinking I can get back into the field.
Maybe not become a full time web developer, but I could definitely handle a few php tutorials like these to enthusiastic web developers and help them out in any way I can.
I could use suggestions, so anyone feel free to help me out and thanks in advance!

 

Hello @deepshika1 :
Good to hear you were a Web developer. I have started a thread Learning Group For Web Technologies where I post my web Learning updates. May be when you find time, you can update us about the new developments in web technologies / guide us in this area if you wish

 

I quit my job before marriage as i was being shifted to various places and was tired of traveling. My family was looking out for a match so i just thought that i will find the job near my future home that could be anywhere. But its 7 years of marriage now and not able to even search for it. First was the adjustment with new family then got busy with kids. Now dont have any confidence left for going out.

 

I was working in MNC post marriage but couldn't continue there for long because I couldn't handle the pressure at the job..Also at one point of time I felt so stressed that I decided I should quit. Since we were planning for baby I thought leading a stress free life would be good for that. Right now I am in TTC journey, hope I could get back to my career someday after having kid.