come home for kids or stick it out?

[slow99]

thats the kicker. 14 months ago we were 143000 in credit card debt. I took this job, busted my ass for the past 14 months to pay off 82000 of it but we still have 61000 to go. I see the negative effect me being gone is having on my marriage and kids and i so want to take a job back in dfw but i want to get out of that debt at the same time.

holy fuck!!

[347Mike]

Should've inquired about a pay day loan or car title loan to consolidate that debt!



I must ask, though. How does one accumulate almost $150,000 in credit card debt?

[KCHAR]

Shouldve inquired about a pay day loan or car title loan to consolidate that debt!

LOL if i could just go back a few years. Between medical bills, unemployment and an attempt to keep something afloat i should have let go ive learned some tough lessons.

[FreightTrain]

holy fuck!!

X1,000,000


I hope for his sake he had some awesome vegas weekends full of hookers, strippers, and cocaine.

[SS Junk]

Thats the kicker. 14 months ago we were 143000 in credit card debt. I took this job, busted my ass for the past 14 months to pay off 82000 of it but we still have 61000 to go. I see the negative effect me being gone is having on my marriage and kids and i so want to take a job back in dfw but i want to get out of that debt at the same time.

Stay where you are at. You have the opportunity to pay off the debt. Pay it off and then go to your family. Owing that kind of money will cause misery for everyone if you take that kind of pay cut and are not able to pay for what you owe.

[KCHAR]

X1,000,000


I hope for his sake he had some awesome vegas weekends full of hookers, strippers, and cocaine.

I wish it was hookers and blow.

I guess it comes down to this. If i stick it out another year i roll the dice i think on my marriage. It will suck financially if i move home now and will just have to bust ass in other ways but id feel like id have a quicker route to fixing things if that makes sense.

[Rick Modena]

Stay where you're at and pay off debt, take your wifes CC away and cut them up.

Or

Kill yourself for allowing this nonsense.

Or

Kill your wife, take your kids to Montana...

[Cooter]

I would stick it out and pay down what's left of that debt. It will be great to come home to the family without that weighing over your heads anymore

[Cooter]

I wish it was hookers and blow.

I guess it comes down to this. If i stick it out another year i roll the dice i think on my marriage. It will suck financially if i move home now and will just have to bust ass in other ways but id feel like id have a quicker route to fixing things if that makes sense.

ultimately you have to make the decision. go with your gut. If it tells you to come home, come home and be ultra-frugal till that debt is paid down

[roliath]

You can't replace time with your kids. When they grow up you'll regret all the time you missed out on. I'd take the paycut if it were keeping me away from my kids more than a few days here and there.

Amen to that man.

[Jimbo]

Oh damn, stick it out. Always get out of debt FIRST.

Stay where you're at and pay off debt, take your wifes CC away and cut them up.

Or

Kill yourself for allowing this nonsense.

Or

Kill your wife, take your kids to Montana...

This.

[KCHAR]

Oh damn, stick it out. Always get out of debt FIRST.


This.

Under ideal circumstances i would agree.

[347Mike]

I would say pay off the debt first and stock pile a shit into savings before anything else. You still get to see your kids, its not like you are gone for months or years at end.

To pay off $80,000 on $45,000 would take forever.

[jw33]

Thats the kicker. 14 months ago we were 143000 in credit card debt. I took this job, busted my ass for the past 14 months to pay off 82000 of it but we still have 61000 to go. I see the negative effect me being gone is having on my marriage and kids and i so want to take a job back in dfw but i want to get out of that debt at the same time.

Yeah you need to go ahead and finish what you started or you are probably doomed to repeat. If I had that hanging over my head I'd sit my wife down and just tell this is the way it's going to be until that shit is payed off and we're in the black some. If you think you can knock it out in just another year that is no time. Making 50K a year you'll never make a dent in it....

143K on CC, wow...

[mustang_revival]

You should be able to find a job in DFW making that.