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The best thing you can do right now is talk to your wife about how you feel. While others suggest that your only concern should be the well-being of your family, you should evaluate that well-being by including factors in addition to your finances.
Clearly, if you don't have the resources to maintain your lifestyle when you switch jobs, then that's a problem, but if you're bored and unhappy at work, how is that influencing your life at home? Is that happiness influencing how good a father you are and how you interact with your child and wife?
If changing jobs won't leave you destitute, and it would promote a healthier and more satisfying home life, then that is more than worth a cut in pay. A healthy family isn't necessarily a rich family.
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The best thing you can do right now is talk to your wife about how you feel. While others suggest that your only concern should be the well-being of your family, you should evaluate that well-being by including factors in addition to your finances. Clearly, if you don't have the resources to maintain your lifestyle when you switch jobs, then that's a problem, but if you're bored and unhappy at work, how is that influencing your life at home? Is that happiness influencing how good a father you are and how you interact with your child and wife? If changing jobs won't leave you destitute, and it would promote a healthier and more satisfying home life, then that is more than worth a cut in pay. A healthy family isn't necessarily a rich family.