Feeling unmotivated and looking for advice.
I 36F have been spiraling lately and am so unmotivated. My husband 46M owns a business that I was never interested in helping with, but literally didn’t have a choice. I was forced to quit my job when our 2nd child was young due to the costs of child care being more than my paycheck. I didn’t love my job, but it allowed me to socialize with others and get out of the house.
I have been helping with the business since 2014 and I have lost motivation to keep it going, but I’m the back bone now. Most of what I do is all from home on the computer/ over the phone, so the only major plus is that I can take it with me when we go to see family or on vacation. ALL quotes, invoicing, scheduling, taxes, paperwork, advertising, EVERYTHING except the actual labor (sometimes that too) falls to me. I’m not a good salesperson, but a lot of times that falls to me too. Without me, the business would crumble because he has no clue how to do most of it himself and we can never seem to be in agreement/ able to justify the cost to hire outside help. We recently took 6 months trying to train an employee to handle more of the day to day (mostly quotes and scheduling), but it was too much work for too little pay. So here I am, running a business I was never interested in being a part of with no hope of hiring anyone to help soon, and the business is suffering due to my lack of motivation.
How do I get motivated to keep something going I don’t want to be a part of but depend on for the roof over our heads and food on the table? How do you get motivated when it’s not something you want to do but you have to do?