Help! Husband pushing me to find job!
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Help! Husband pushing me to find job!
| Tue, 11-07-2006 - 10:35am |
My husband has just taken a leave of absense from his high paying 80 hour a week job to focus on being home more and finding out what he really wants to do. He is now working 3 days a week at a job he really likes. He always said if he took this job he would find another part time job to supplement the income. I am working weekends and babysitting during the week, but my income is a joke. Our kids are 5 and 3 and cry every weekend when I leave. My problem is this: my husband has put no effort in finding that 2nd job he said he would find and is pushing me to work full time. I want to be a stay at home mom, but it may mean him going back to a job he hates. He says the kids will adjust, get over it. Am I being selfish or lazy for wanting to stay home? Is he being selfish for leaving a good paying job?

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Unfortunately, because I can only be hired by a school district that can't find a chemistry teacher with certs, I'm stuck with mid year. Given the number of my fellow students who have certs who are out of work, I simply cannot risk quitting my job to student teach becasue I could end up facing long term unemployment. Either I find a paying position I can use for my student teaching by January of 2009 or I'm done. At that point my credits start going stale and I refuse to throw good money after bad.
That's ok though. I wanted to go into teaching because I thought there was a need and I could do some good. If I can't find a position, that's evidence that there isn't a need and if there isn't a need, someone coming in with industrial experience isn't going to make much difference. The situation kind of negates my reasons for wanting to teach in the first place. I just wish I'd realized this BEFORE I spent several thousands of dollars on tuition for a degree it now looks like I can't finish.
What I find odd is that I qualify today to teach chemistry or engineering in college but can't teach high school.
Yes. We. Did.
LoL...now you know why my grocery bill is always higher when I bring the kids along.
PumpkinAngel
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