The Dilemma of a Breadwinner

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

James has a lot of financial responsibilities with kids in college and an elderly mother to care for. Should he be looking for a different kind of job? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.5	Games, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hey, Dr. Laura.
0:14.8	Thanks for taking my call.
0:16.5	Thank you.
0:18.3	How can I help?
0:20.2	Yeah.
0:24.5	I've got a scenario I'll try to describe to the best of my ability.
0:25.7	Thank you.
0:28.5	I would love to get your advice.
0:39.2	I am in a sales job in the medical industry, and I've done that for a long time. I've had a couple of jobs doing this line of work. Last year, I lost a job and came over, one that I was in
0:48.3	for a long time, came over to work with another company and I've been doing that for almost a year and it's been a it's kind of
0:58.5	been a starting over phase and it's been very difficult.
1:01.2	I've been on a kind of a non-compete where I couldn't I can't go into a lot of my accounts
1:09.0	that I've had in the past for a period of a year's
1:11.7	time and that's that's almost up.
1:13.3	So it's been very difficult.
1:15.7	I'm the sole breadwinner in my family.
1:20.1	I've got three kids, two in college and one in high school.
1:23.9	I've had a lot of life events too in the past year. My father passed away back in September.
1:30.3	He was the primary care provider for my mother who has dementia. And we've since had to move her to,
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