0:04 i used to work
0:07 such long hours that i didn't have any
0:08 time to enjoy
0:11 life i was like a robot get up
0:15 go to work go back home sleep
0:18 i had no personal life and i started to feel
0:18 feel
0:22 really miserable i decided that i wanted
0:24 to have more free time
0:26 so i told my boss that i was going
0:28 through some personal issues
0:31 and that i needed to work part-time she agreed
0:32 agreed
0:36 now i have time to do everything i want
0:39 i don't have as much money but i'm much
0:45 much happier
0:48 jasmine is three weeks old today i
0:49 remember a month or so ago
0:51 thinking that i would go back to work
0:53 within two or three months
0:56 now i know that's not going to happen
0:58 i just can't imagine leaving her with
0:59 someone else
1:01 i'll miss my colleagues of course but
1:04 work will pay me an allowance for a year
1:12 i worked as a singing teacher for 10 years
1:13 years
1:15 and i've had some really good success stories
1:16 stories
1:19 but i felt that i had gone as far as i
1:19 could go
1:23 in that career and i wanted a change
1:25 i didn't just want to do a different job
1:26 in music
1:29 i wanted to do something completely different
1:30 different
1:32 that's why i applied to do this
1:34 engineering course
1:36 it's challenging definitely but i really
1:41 love it
1:43 for the last nine years i've done the
1:45 responsible thing
1:48 i got a well-paid job close to home so
1:50 that my wife didn't have to work
1:52 and i could be home by half past four to
1:54 spend time with the kids
1:57 it's worked but i really began to hate work
1:58 work
2:00 now the kids are older so after some discussion
2:01 discussion
2:03 my wife agreed i could get a job i loved
2:06 even though i will be home much later
2:09 and earn less i started last week
2:17 my wife and i both had really good jobs
2:18 which we really enjoyed
2:22 but we really saw our kids and they
2:24 started to have difficulties at school
2:26 we began to think we were being
2:29 selfish together we were earning far
2:32 more money than we needed
2:35 so we decided that i would give up work
2:37 and teach the children myself
2:40 at home it's not easy but now we spend a
2:42 lot more time together
