CONGRATULATIONS ON HAVING MORE MONEY THAN I HAVE……….. But do not assume that having money makes you a better parent or a better anything.
This might seem like a random thing to say so let me explain. Today I was accused of not caring or contributing anything towards my children due to my financial situation (in other words, I’M BROKE AS A JOKE.) I am on working tax credits and child tax credit but (due to Google refusing to pay me the nearly 20000 USD they owe me or even acknowledge my existence) my business which consists of me selling DVDs online, YouTube and this website is financial struggling, I get the views but not the money.
Despite Google’s unwillingness to pay me what they owe me, I refuse to give up on this shit and go back to the dead, lame paid, back breaking building trade (other than blogging it’s all I have ever done.) I know this means that I don’t have as much money as I would if I was working but I have more time! Time I can spend with my children so you carry on spending your money when I spend my time.
Another point is I was a Plasterer for 15 years, Plastering is a physically hard job that pays well and it made me strong but when I looked at older plasterers they were nearly always injured from the job. Bad backs, shoulders and arms like I said it is a physically hard job.
Looking after children is not physically hard but it is mentally exhausting, I have said it from day one parenting is much harder than any job I have ever had. I am not saying I am good at it because I wish I was better but despite the fact I am as broke as a joke I do love my kids. How many do gooders go to work just to get away from the kids or the wife? Quite a few that I have worked with. I like what I do and I know some people fail to see it but there is more to life than money so I am not rushing back to a boring plastering job until I have at least tried to build on this, you don’t like it? You don’t have to like it but don’t bring my kids in to it.