Was/Is your Mum a SAHM or does she bring in a salary?

[Pooh67_68]

My mom worked full time, until retirement.

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

I voted SAHM even though she was pretty much forced to be one and still brought in income (SSI). She went on disability not long after my oldest sister was born (spinal gone wrong during childbirth...mom has suffered migraine-induced seizures since then. ). She said she would have liked to work out of the home though...just wasn't able to.

 

[PrincessDeb]

My mom was a SAHM until I was in JH. She got a part-time teaching position at a nursery school that still put her home before my brother (who was younger). By the time that I was graduating HS, she was working a full time job at a craft kit company which she really loves . She's still there at 64 and has an executive position now. Dad is retired and on SSI-he's been at home pretty much for years .
Deb

 

[Acklander]

My mom always worked a full time job. Not because she had to, but because she wanted to. Growing up we knew her job was just as important as my dad's.

 

[momto2girls]

My mother was a SAHM until she and my father divorced. Then she worked out of necessity.

I am a SAHM and hope never to return to the workforce again.

 

[Meriweather]

My mother worked full time. It was finincially needed during those days.

Me....I have stayed at home, ran an in-home day care and worked for the school district.

 

[tigercat]

My dm was a SAHM. She never did work outside the home but did work like crazy at home. I was a SAHM and then went to work part time and then full time. I was again at home and have just ended up with a part time job. I seem to end up with jobs and I'm not sure how. I do a LOT of volunteer work now.
tigercat

 

[dhcoffey]

My mom was a SAHM until I was in second grade because my dad was in the Marines and gone a lot of the time when my older sisters were smaller. Then my dad retired and my mom went to work at my school in the library and worked in libraries from then until she retired.

Heather

 

[beattyfamily]

My mom was a SAHM till I was about age 16; then she worked nights. I was able to help with my 7 year old younger sister.

She had 6 kids to take care of and I was the youngest of 5 till my younger sister was born.

Now she works part time.

I am also a SAHM mom and will remain so indefinitely.

 

[MareQ]

My mom had a job when she was 19 and that was it .. she married my dad, raised 4 children, wqs very active as a volunteer at school, bowled in a day league after all 4 of us were in school, she never made a dime after the age of 19 - but there was never a need for her to work anyway

 

[cccm]

She stayed home until she was not able for monetary reasons. At that time she became a substitute teacher and had a load of other things on the side. She went to full time when I was in High School. She has changed jobs 3 times in 20 years and still works full time.

I wish she could retire and stop and enjoy life.

I work full time.

 

[Pugdog007]

In the South in the 1970's, it seemed everyone's Mom was a SAHM. Very few worked at that time.

 

[simba928]

My mom works full-time and always has. When I first started elementary school, she was one of the very few that did. The homeroom moms would have meetings and things during the day, but she couldn't go obviously. So she was looked down upon by all the moms because she couldn't make it to every single party or field trip or event. I don't remember a single "parents day" type event that she missed, though. She was always at the mother's day picnics. In second grade, we had a lot of events like that and she went to every single one, except pasta day because that was for grandparents. When my brother started school, though, more moms were working, so it wasn't really a big deal.

 

[harleyquinn]

My mom was and still is a Registered Nurse. She worked third shift when we were younger, taking a 1st shift job when my sister and I got old enough to be home in the afternoon by ourselves.

Ditto, Bob...weird. Only differences are that my mom's an LPN and I'M the sister to a brother. lol

She worked full time until a 85 pound old woman made her slip a disk and has been on disability ever since. She still works part time in an office though.

 

[MomofKatie]

My mom did a little of each on the poll. She was a SAHM until I was about 7, then worked part time until the recession hit and Dad got laid off. She worked full time from the time I was in 3rd grade until she retired a few years ago.

She ended up being the main breadwinner in our house- Dad never went back to full time work after I was 8 years old. He worked for himself out of our home, but never made much $$. Mom went to college while raising us and holding a full time job, got her degree and became a CPA. She opened her own practice and made a pretty nice living for us.

I'm VERY proud of her- even though she would rather have stayed home and been a SAHM forever, she really stepped up and became a successful career woman.

 

[Diamondintheruff]

She worked at home and did the bills for my Dad's store. Watching them argue every month end is why I refuse to work with my husband.

 

[C.Ann]

My mom was a SAHM.. My father would have been mortified to have his wife out working! In his family (and circle of friends) that was equivalent to saying he couldn't support his family..

Mom took her stay-at-home-job seriously.. She sewed most of our clothes; cooked/baked from scratch; canned fruits and vegetables; made homemade jams; did laundry and ironing every day; washed all the floors every day; and basically kept the house spotless..

 

[mickeyboat]

My mom stayed home until I was about 2, and has worked full time (plus) ever since. She has a very successful and fulfilling career now.

Denae

 

[Pigeon]

Mine was a SAHM. In our community there were almost no working mothers during that era. I can't think of a single one.

My mother had too many kids, and I don't think that she really liked kids all that much once they got past the infant stage. I think she would have been much happier working part time. She was just marking time till we grew up.

 

[Bob Slydell]

Ditto, Bob...weird. Only differences are that my mom's an LPN and I'M the sister to a brother. lol

Sis? Is that you??