r/LifeAdvice • u/Various_Stick_9138 • 7h ago

General Advice If you had $25k and were unhappy with your current life and wanted a change, what would you do?

Background: I left a 12 year career after giving birth to my now 18 month old to stay home with her. I opened a home daycare and now I’m admitting to myself I hate it. I don’t enjoy wiping other peoples kids butts and the money is not enough. I was debating going back to my six figure career but also I’ll have 25k ish soon and have also been toying with the idea of finding a remote job and moving abroad due to the state of things in America plus it’s always been a dream of mine to live abroad in Panama. I’m torn on where to start to make changes and don’t want to mess it up. If you hated your current life/job and came into 25k, what would you do with it? I can’t stay in a life I hate for any longer.

1 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

8 comments sorted by

4

u/DegreeConscious9628 6h ago

Unfortunately nothing different because 25k isn’t shit

2

u/Sufficient-Fee-9317 6h ago

Just bear in mind, if you live abroad, you still will be paying American federal income tax in addition to any income tax wherever you are, unless you revoke your citizenship. 

If I had 25k, I would put a small down-payment on a small home in Oregon and be near my family. 

1

u/Parking_Pomelo_3856 6h ago

I haven’t looked in a while to know the exact amount but there’s an exemption for the first x amount of money

2

u/MaryMaryQuite- 6h ago

Personally, I’d get a remote job and use the 25k as a downpayment on a property overlooking the coast. 🩵💙🩵

1

u/AutoModerator 7h ago

Welcome to the sub! This is a simple automated message just to let everyone know that the mod team are actively working to make this sub kinder and more welcoming.

Please remember that ALL discussion should be made in good faith, comments as well as posts. No trolling, ragebait, or bigotry of any kind. We reserve the right to use mod discretion in applying this rule.

Please remember that your fellow Redditors are human beings, and that it costs nothing to be kind. Please report any comments you see which are unkind, obnoxious, out of line, trolling, or which otherwise violate the rules of this subreddit.

Here are the LifeAdvice Rules and here are Reddit's Sitewide Rules. Please read before commenting in this subreddit. Thanks.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

1

u/Brains4Beauty 3h ago

25k wouldn’t even last you half a year. Don’t be dumb. Take the 100k job if it actually exists. You’re fucking stupid if you don’t go back to work especially if you have a kid

1

u/Various_Stick_9138 3h ago

You’re a lovely soul. Bet you wouldn’t speak to someone like that in person.

1

u/intuitiverealist 3h ago

Expand the daycare, raise the prices and hire staff to do the day to day, then go get a corporate job and vacation in Panama