I read through your other posts and at age 30 you are doing awesome. I understand burn out as I worked as a nurse.
Like building your gym, it is one step at a time. You did not decide you needed a home gym and viola there it was. You shopped, added items and got to your end goal. People lose weight, obtain skills like learning to cook and save money all in the same way. You work to overcome the obstacles and make a little progress each day. Have you made a chart of your mortgage payoff and increase in net worth? Little steps. Sometimes due to circumstances beyond your control (stock market slides, muffler falls off the car) you have little slides backwards, but the general progression is forward.
Perhaps making a baby step each day and documenting it in a journal will be helpful. Many people here take great pride in the little things that add up over time.
Is there any possibility of other job or living opportunities?
Thank you Potterquilter. A very thoughtful and encouraging reply. I've been meaning to reply to you for the past 2 weeks.
It's good to be reminded this journey is made of many baby steps. One day at a time. I have a mortage calculator I use every month to monitor my progress and it's fun to see the time needed to pay off the mortage is reduced each month.
I have job opportunities closer to home in my field but honestly I kinda want out of it. I've almost made up my mind 100% to quit my job next summer. I've only been working a 88% position at the hospital and I reduced it by 12% so that I could spend more time with my family. Because of commuting I was getting late home every day (and still am two days a week).
So I think my current job has too many downsides:
1. Only 88% position (admittedly my own choice)
2. 2-3 hours of commuting each day.
3. Paying almost a month's salary each year for the bus that gets me to work.
4. Really tired of my stressful and not so high paying job.
My pride tells me I can't accept any job opportunity because of my education but honestly I can't go on like this forever. I think I should be able to find less stressful job closer to home and even if it pays less I might be just as well off financially because of a) paying nothing for commuting and b) being able to work a 100% position.
