 to be a stay-at-home wife I earn a hundred thousand dollars a year in a stable government job but it's not enough to sustain the cost of living to be honest I don't enjoy my job and I'm not motivated to grow in my career or pursue other higher paying opportunities in this industry I would much rather scrape on by doing the minimum at work and get a second job that pays fifty thousand a year the problem is I don't think that's sustainable long term I'm not really sure where to go