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October 2012 Moms
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s/o SAHM
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The most recent lurker turned poster is a SW turned SAHM. It got me thinking... what is everyone else doing? I don't remember this ever being discussed, but I could be losing my mind.
So...let's hear it. What are you doing? Are you returning to work? Did you work before and are now a SAHM? Were you a SAHM before? or any other scenario I didn't mention.
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Re: s/o SAHM
I never noticed your ticker before because I usually mobile bump...but my daughter was born the same size as me as well -- 7lbs 11ozs. We also had the same birthday.
This. Only I worked until 2 days before LO was born. I do not want to go back to work. Only 18 more months and 2 days until I can be a SAHM, but who's counting and its not soon enough.
I'd love to work part time, maybe like 25-30 hours a week. But my company doesn't offer that (we're all ft salary) and our lifestyle isn't cut out for me to have a lower waged part time job.
I've been on mat leave for 11 weeks and supposed to return to work this week. I love my job but can't stand the thought of returning to work and leaveing LO. Since we've basically been living off of DH salary for the last 2 mo we decided with a few changes in spending habits I would stay home for at least a year.
I am jealous of you! Do you get paid the entire time?
I started a new job working 3 days a week 8 months in to my pregnancy. At 4 weeks PP, I returned to work for only 10-18hours/week. Starting in January, I will go up to 2.5 days/week until work gets busy, then maybe back to the 3 full days/week. I think 3 or maybe 4 days a week is ideal for me. Financially, we cannot swing that, plus I really love my career. However, I would hate to leave LO 5 days/week to daycare. So 3-4 days/week would be perfect I think.
I've been a SAHM since April when we moved away from my
job. DH went to school in FL for 2 months while DS1 and I
stayed with my parents in PA. Moved to GA in June, so I
didn't bother looking for a new job. Before we moved, I was
only working 3 days a week, 15 hours a week total, and it
was so perfect. I also liked my job and made extremely good
money, so we could afford a part time nanny. I wish I could
find the same sweet deal here, but there's really nothing. I did
however just apply for a full time job on base working with the
Army so we'll see what happens. I don't really want to work
full time, but I feel like I need to stay fresh. The pay would be
a huge cut as we'll, but at least I could get a start in government
work.
I plan to look for a job sometime in the spring or summer. I'm not cut out to be a SAHM forever. I will work part time.
Since DS1 was born, I've worked both full and part time as well as stayed home and feel like part time worked best for me.
I returned to work Friday after 12 weeks of leave. Really wish I had the choice to stay at home, but there was no way I could make our budget work. Hoping as LO becomes more independent, I will find pockets of time to turn my side jobs into something I could leave my desk job for. That and I keep telling DH to hurry up and double his salary already
or maybe if we played the lottery...
Why 18 months and 2 days?
I am returning to work will work a reduced schedule 4 days a week
Hubby will watch LO and B will start DC in April at 6 months old this works best for us
Yes, but only about 55 percent and then a top up from my company for the first 17 weeks.