Question for married women whose spouse works...

[Minnie824]

Do you work outside your home also? I'm just curious. In my whole town almost, it seems like me and 2 other women work. All the park district classes, all the moms days at school, everything falls during the day. There is hardly anything in the afternoon/evening hours. Just wondering how many women do work outside the home.

 

[luvwinnie]

Yep, if I want to keep living in my house, I need to work. We don't have human kids, by the way (we have the 4-legged kind).

 

[Planogirl]

I do. I have to. If my husband gets back on his feet, I hope to find something a bit less stressful though.

 

[mickeyfan1]

Nope, no work, no kids. There are several of us in my community. Of course I am considerably older than many of y'all and worked full time for 32 years. DH is the main paycheck now, finally.

 

[wvjovifan]

Yep, have always worked. When the kiddies were little, did all the juggling and rescheduling, ect to make it work! Sometime my house didn't get cleaned for weeks and I thought we lived on fast food. Now that they are grown, I am enjoying the more quiet lifestyle. But after 33 years, my job will end on Dec 30, so I am looking forward to being a SAHM for my 3 cats for a while!!!

 

[jx3smom]

I work full time but have good hours. I work 8am-3pm and it takes me 5 minutes to get home and less time to get to the high school if I need to go there for my DS.

 

[AllyandJack]

Technically, my job is full time, but I max out at 30 hours and, lately, I rarely even get that.

I won't work when I have kids. I just don't want to. I live in the middle of nowhere and the commute is killer.

I have done the stay-at-home-wife thing, but after everything was cleaned and organized, I found myself sitting on the couch watching Maury. I decided I needed to get out!

 

[DaisyD]

No work here. I have kids but they are in school all day. Most of my friends are SAHMs but the kids are in school now. We have no interest in going back to work either! LOL!

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I work part time at the same job I've had for almost 20 years. Many others probably think I'm a SAHM too because I work two 12 hour shifts a week, and overnight at that, so I can be around for school activities when I need to be.

 

[T1130]

I am a teacher. When I had my dd almost 5 years ago I left my school because it would have been impossible with my commute and I wanted to stay home with my dd. When she was 6 months old I started subbing a few days a week in schools that were close to my house. So I work part time. This works for me because I keep myself fresh on what is going on in the school system and I don`t work on days that I have to do things with my dd.

 

[daisyduck123]

Teacher here...so I work full time during the school year.

I have a great situation though. I have a DD11 in middle school & my DS8 comes to school with me. We're home by 4 p.m. everyday.

When the kids were infants/toddlers/preschoolers my mother watched them everyday (she was a young Grandma at 50 years old ).

If I had the kind of job where I had to leave my kids with a sitter all summer, then I would quit. Nothing is better than having the summer off with the kids, unless you're at Disney with the kids!!

 

[Evil Genius]

Yes I do. If I had a choice I wouldn't.

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

When I was married, my spouse and I both worked full-time...both before and after our daughter was born. I don't think I could stay at home all day, especially without children. I'd be bored to tears in the winter, since everyone up here hibernates for 5 months.

 

[beattyfamily]

Stay at home mom here. Both girls will be in school full time in September but I still will not work. It is not worth it to us for me to work and then have to arrange for someone to watch them on school holidays, vacation days, sick days and summer vacations, not to mention wanting to be home when they get home from school and going to all their shows etc which are held during school hours. I can't get a job that is that flexible. Too bad I didn't become a teacher! That would be ideal.

 

[NMAmy]

Full-time working mom here. DD is 15 and I've worked full-time for the majority of her life. Well, and even before that. Sometimes I fall into dd's way of thinking that I couldn't have possibly done ANYTHING before she was born.

Most of the moms I know work. Doesn't stop the schools from scheduling stuff right smack dab in the middle of the day, though. I'm having trouble right now with dd's basketball practice all through summer vacation from 8:30-10:00 a.m. Let's make it as difficult as possible for parents with jobs.

 

[diznygirl]

I'm a SAHM, and so are a lot of others in this town. It's nice, cuz when we lived in L.A. everyone worked, and I had no one to spend time with during the day, and everything happened at night. I felt like I was the only SAHM in the entire city!

 

[Chicago526]

Full time here! We don't have kids yet though. I hope to go to part time when we do have kids, at least until they are old enough to be in school all day, then it's back to FT work for me!

We have to, cost of living is too high here to raise a family on a single income, unless you like living in an apartment and eating Raman noodles 3 meals a day...

 

[mytwotinks]

SAHM here. My dh is a fireman with crazy hours. I would never see my husband if I worked too. I want my kids to have family time. I won't work when they are both in school (one more year) either. I am looking forward to maybe having a clean house so that I am not humiliated when someone drops by!

 

[Makdyn]

I work a full time job and a part time job. I have to work two jobs just to pay the bills. Please tell were to sign up for these DH cause I need one.

 

[olena]

I can't drive, so I'm stuck at home. I do lots of volunteering when I can arrange transportation.