Hi all, Keen to get some thoughts, here is my situation… I’m a 35yo married guy, we have a 2yo Son and a mortgage. Before my Son was born I was working at a big 4 bank head office in a management position. Working overtime was standard there and juggling working late between home/husband and pregnant wife duties slowly burnt me out. I left and joined a big health insurance company. I was here for 2 years.

At said company also in a management position, I was unfortunately reporting to a narcissistic micro managed lady and quickly realised that things would not work out well in the long run. i stayed there for roughly 6 months.

Current: I’m now once again back in the Banking industry ( diff Bank ) but still in a similar management position. However, this position is really technical which is not my strongest strength if I were to be honest. I can do the job, but I do find it challenging and it will take time for me to fully understand the technical aspects of the banking system here. I’ve only been here for 4 months and I’m conflicted.

The work I’m currently doing is not particularly what I’m interested in. But I’ve been switching jobs so often lately at the same time so I am worried that this won’t look too great in my cv if I do decide to look elsewhere so soon. Also financial stability is important at the moment with a toddler and a mortgage, so I’m torn on whether I should just stick it out and continue grinding and doing work that brings me no joy but at least pays the bills or start looking elsewhere once again and have another failed career history in the books…

What would you do in my situation?