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career happiness vs financial peace of mind . . .
I am mostly writing here to vent, but if anyone has some advice it would be gr neatly appreciated. I recently left a full time job due to personal reasons. I left with the knowledge that I would be starting another job at the end of August, and with my part time nanny supplement my DH and I knew we would be able to thrive.
I recently learned that my new job would now not be starting until October or November. Although I might be able to continue to nanny, this is shaky (I have already put in my end of August notice . . .) To top everything off we have recently qualified for and are able to buy a house, something we have been wanting to do for two years.
My question is do I continue to pursue this culinary career path or do I go back to child care? I will work more stable hours in child care, but I am not as satisfied as I would be cooking. I don't want to place the entire financial burden on my DH because that's unfair. How important is career happiness if everything else in your life is great?
Re: career happiness vs financial peace of mind . . .
I think since you have a goal or true passion, you should continue to pursue it. I never really had a specific goal in mind, I just worked whatever job I could and have been at mine for 4 years. I don't have much advice.
I hope it all works out for the best. 
Before I had my son, I had a very demanding career. I thought that it was what I wanted but it turns out that it wasn't. The fact that I was not happy at work started affecting everything else in my life. To the point where I was fighting with my husband (and everyone else) over nothing because I was just so unhappy at work. I even got put on bed rest towards the end of my pregnancy because I was so stressed out about how unhappy I was at work.
After I had my son, I took a pay cut to work less hours at a job that I enjoy more. We needed to change our budget around but honestly, it was the best decision that I could have made.
I recommend you doing the job that you would enjoy more. It's so much more important than money. Good luck with deciding! It's such a tough decision to make.
Personally I left a job that could have turned into a good career but there was too many negatives especially in the personal arena that turned me off of that.
What I would suggest is to see if you can find some type of temporary job through a temp service while you wait for your culinary career path to open up. You are only talking about a few more months.