Staying Away From My Family is Difficult for me, But I Have to

I started writing this article at 15:42 Pakistan Time. I am here sitting on my couch and hoping for my son to not wake up because if he wakes up he would not let me use my laptop. Because he would start pressing the keyboard keys and observe what it is? He has done this before that's why we hide the laptop from him because we fear he might damage the keyboard or screen.

Usually, I spend 6 days of the week in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. I live in our company-provided residence while my family lives almost 140 km away from me in another province, KPK. You might be thinking I can travel 140 km daily after my duty hours and be with my family. But it is not possible for two reasons. One, I don't own a car, and 2nd if I do travel 140 km daily it would be exhausting for me. Because I take 2 hours to reach home so it would be 4 hours travel daily. It might affect my performance in the office but most importantly, it would affect my health badly.

I can also get shifted with my family there but I can afford it yet. My company provides me free single accommodation along with free food. They only pay rent allowance to managers and I am currently working as an Assistant Manager. The biggest problem is, there is no proper policy for pay structure, yearly increments, and promotions. So I don't see myself promoting to manager in near future.

I can try for a rented two beds apartment as it would be more than enough for my family comprising me, my son, and my wife. But as I told you earlier I can't afford it. Living in a third-class apartment can cost me half of my salary because Islamabad is the most expensive city in Pakistan. Living in Islamabad means you have to pay double the price for everything.

Getting a promotion is the only solution that will make it easy for me to shift my family to Islamabad. I don't see any chance of getting promoted but this is life and the best or worst thing about life is its unpredictability. You may never know what is going to happen in the next second.

I am thinking about serving in this company for one and a half years more. The reason is, that I have already worked here for 8.5 years and my company provides 10 Marla land plot to those employees whose service exceed 10 years. I am hopeful that I would get it too in sha Allah.

My second plan is I want to get into the crypto trading world. For that, I need some funds which I am about to get in a few months. I have no proper plan in which milestones and goals are defined. I am giving it thought and hopefully, I will come up with a plan after some time.

I am finding it hard to stay away from my family especially my 2 years old son. I don't want to miss any single moment of his childhood. Luckily, I get to see him on weekends but I don't want to miss seeing him even the remaining 6 days of the week.

I wish a miracle happens and I get to reside in my village permanently without any stress of earning and future. That miracle would be no other than becoming a crypto trader. I need to make a proper timetable and start giving some time to learn about crypto trading platforms like Binance.

Lastly, my article might not seem good enough because I am at my home, distracted by different things at home. I don't have any responsibility when I am at my company's accommodation but here I have different responsibilities. An example of that responsibility is, I have started writing this article at 15:42 and finished it now at 20:32 because my wife asked me to bring stuff as she decided to make pizza. And another example is, I am finishing this article in a hurry because my mother is asking me to give her my smartphone because she needs to facetime her brother. 😂 These are the distractions. 😂

I would love to hear out your thoughts and suggestions.

Thank you for reading.