Family Over Job Offer.

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Like @beckyroyal rightly said, there is no wrong or right answer to this prompt. Our response to it depends on our personal interest or point of view.

In my opinion, if I am being offered a job by a firm in a country I have always wanted to visit with the conditions that I would not be able to take my spouse and children with me till after two years, would I grab the opportunity?.

The question is a very tricky one to tackle and one would need to have a real look around before making such a humbling decision. The first thing is to discuss the offer with my spouse. Given that he knows I have always wanted to visit the country where the offer came from, he might want me to jump on it but we would need to check if he can run the day to day affairs of our children without me for six whole terms which cames two academics section of the two years that I would be away for.

We need to check to be sure that my spouse is emotionally stable to withstand my absence for that long period because failure to do so may leave me with no home or family to return to or bring over after two years. Oh yeah, two years is a long time for spouses to be away.

Lastly, we both need to look at what the present financial situations of our family is like. If there is enough in the family's account, we can relocate the whole family to my destination country on another type of visa while only I would have the work visa then we might apply for the appropriate visa later on.

If our family does not have that kind of resources, my spouse and I can work around routine visits though that may cost a fortune but nothing is too much sacrifice in keeping body, spirit and soul together. After checking all the above listed points and exhausting all our options, if we are able to make a compromise I think I would gladly jump at the offer. But if it's the other way round, I would bluntly regret the offer.

I am a family oriented person though I never had the opportunity of sharing a roof with my parents from childhood, growing up with my grandmother was amazing but it came with its obstacles. I know the pain of not living and growing up with both parents and I do not wish for my children or any child to experience that, hence the reason I might reject such a juicy offer.

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