Confessions of one sahm
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Confessions of one sahm
| Fri, 04-03-2009 - 1:58pm |
I've been thinking about this *debate* lately, and I think that many of my
| Fri, 04-03-2009 - 1:58pm |
I've been thinking about this *debate* lately, and I think that many of my
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There is no reason one needs to be employed outside the home in order to make a contribution to mankind. Not all work is paid work, and some of the biggest contributions are made by people whose labor is uncompensated, financially. I like to think that my teaching and research makes a difference. I am pretty sure that a lot of the volunteer stuff I do makes a bigger, more immediate difference.
Not all paid employment makes the world better. One could even argue that a lot of the stuff we make and sell, and a lot of the "services" we provide, actually make the world worse.
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Sounds good to me.
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And so you live your life accordingly and try to accumulate accomplishments. I'm assuming that living life that way makes you happy, which was the very crux of my point. It seems to me that you would be very unhappy as a SAHM because of the things that you find important in life. And a lot of SAHMs would be very unhappy as a WOHM because of the things that they find important in life.
Again, one person's trash is another person's treasure.
I never said they did.
Sounds good to me.
Me, too. But only if the second line says, "And they all smelled like sewing machines!" ;)
Kitty
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Kitty
"If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing."-- Kingsley Amis, British novelist, 1971 t .
Many SAHMs get more time to smell the roses than many WOHMs. I understand that you wouldn't trade off less income for more time, but you're kidding yourself if you think that you have a whole lot of time to smell the roses with a special needs kid and three other children, and a longish commute.
Different question for you - don't you sometimes wish you'd picked something a little higher paying so you could vacation this summer, etc.?
I gained 11 hours a week to smell the roses when I stopped WOH.
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