Not just that, but you too could have great paternity leave and maternity leave, etc. – for just 17% on every dollar you spend, and huge income taxes too!! It’s called socialism, and it’s got it’s downsides too (just my experience)
sniff sniff – I smell a troll…lol…this cannot be for real, can it?! Wow…he he…I will pray for you, you sound as tho you have a huge beef with the life you have chosen
leaner said:
okay, seriously, to do a good job we all work hard. Let’s give each other some credit and not bicker.
WOW!!! You must be in a bad mood. I have been on all sides of this issue too…I have worked full time, up to 74 hours a week as a single mom too! I have also been a sahm, a student and every combo in between. If you do it right, being a sahm is the hardest job in the world!!! I am actually grateful that I have a job outside the home just to get a break! I love my children, but I seem to love them more when I am working outside the home. I recently got married and now I work about 40-60 hours a week, come home and thank God I taught kids (3 teens and a 10 yo) to do their own laundry and how to cook dinner!!! My dh works 12 hour shifts, 36 one week and 48 hrs the next. He is home on days that I work alot of times and I find it comforting that he steps right into the teenage taxi service work when I can’t do it. I am on call to my boss 24/7 and even though I love my job, sometimes I regret having that cell phone he issued me. I actually got a call from him just as I was sitting down to dinner on Thanksgiving, and had 3 more calls from him that day. I get calls at 6 am from him, I have to go to business dinners (always last minute deals) so if I didn’t teach kids to cook they would be starving or McDonalds addicts by now. We all do what we feel we have to for our families. In my case it all balances out though; I am just happy to have a boss that has no problem with me taking time off for church (yes he has called during mass, I call him back after mass and he always forgets I go to that mass), but on the other hand, on All Saint’s day the whole gang of us went to mass then lunch together; my boss and his wife, our engineer, and me. Today I left at noon to go to mass then lunch and no problem, I love working for a devout Catholic with family values!!! Oh, and check this out…boss sent me out on a Sunday to a meeting with neighboring parish’s pastor. I am going to set up his computer network and teach him how to use a computer. Boss is donating computer equipment and my time and services…I think it is pretty cool that he is paying me to do all this.
When my daughter was a cranky, strong willed toddler/preschooler going work for me *was *a luxurious vacation.
Being a SAHM and a working mom are both real jobs, with their down sides and their up sides. And both moms are truly 24/7. A working mom has to get up in the middle of the night with a sick child just like a SAHM. I actually think it would be harder to be a working mom than a SAHM, assuming the mom still takes on a good bit of the chores. I think it muct be very stressful to try to cram in quality time in a few hours each night along with dinner, baths, homework, and chores. But to say that staying at home with the kids is a “luxurious vacation” is a bit over the top. SAHMs work very hard, often taking on the majority or all of the home chores, running children, volunteering at school and church, and more.
I am sorry to hear that the US works people so hard - I work 37.25 hrs a week tops and I think this is fairly normal here - perhaps this is down to the Unions being more active in Europe :clapping: .
