Girlfriend asks if she should dump her boyfriend because he wants to be a Grab driver and do odd jobs

A woman asked if she should leave her boyfriend because he wanted to leave his job in a multinational company (MNC).

In an anonymous post to popular confessions page SGWhispers on Thursday (Jul 14), the woman wrote that she and her boyfriend were together for 3 years. She added that her boyfriend worked in an MNC, and she worked in a Small and Medium enterprise (SME), “taking home a decent amount of 3k per month. We just signed contract for our BTO that will be coming in 4 years’ time”.

It is unclear if they were each bringing home $3,000 a month or if their combined income was $3,000.

In her post, she added that her boyfriend had recently been talking about quitting his current job to “be a grab driver and doing (sic) odd jobs” because he was tired of working at his current company. “Upon hearing this, I actually feel scared for my future with him, because the fact that him doing odd jobs might not bring in a stable income like he is currently bringing in”, the woman wrote.

She explained that though her boyfriend planned to take on many shifts to earn about S$4000 a month, she was still sceptical because she felt he was a lazy person. “I am unsure if he will really make full use of the time to earn money from odd jobs, given that now he has freedom of how he wants to plan his time. I am worried that I would be the sole breadwinner for the family in the future”, she wrote.

She had a dream and goal of starting her own business in the future but was worried that if she was the sole breadwinner in the family most of her money would go toward their house. The money her boyfriend had in his savings account was only worth a month’s salary, with the rest of his savings in stocks, she added.

“He did discuss his plan openly with me and although I feel skeptical about it, I don’t want to restrict him in his future planning as well. What should I do? I did start to have thoughts of leaving this relationship because of this potentially rocky future ahead”, the woman asked netizens.

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