[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by hipster duck

For example, my job is starting to grow a bit stale (all jobs do, because the priorities shift in an organization, and what you were hired to do can often get relegated to the backburner), but it does pay well and has decent benefits. In before-kid times, I would have found a new job months ago, but I don't have the time or energy to go out and network, nor could I promise a prospective employer that I could put in the effort to really do a good job, or to put in the work to reinvent my current job.

Yep I feel this. Work is just a way to get by, not a way of life. Family becomes much more important when you have kids, I think. And I still want some time to do my own hobbies.