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| Mon, 07-14-2008 - 11:00pm |
between being a full-time WOHM and a full-time SAHM (and both were feasible for you), which would you prefer, and why?
Given my job and my personality, I would prefer WOH. I don't find my job difficult or stressful. I very much enjoy it and feel energized by it. At the same time, I am lousy about domestic chores, so I would like to have the extra income for someone to help out with that. I'm also lousy at making my own routines and paying enough attention to DS, so although I love being around him, I don't have the energy to be a SAHM, and I feel that DS would actually have a better and more fun time in quality othercare.
How about you? If your choices were full-time WOHM or full-time SAHM, which would you prefer, and why?
Just so everyone knows, I'm more interested in the "why" part of the question. I've intentionally oversimplified the issue by making it an either/or choice between two options. What personality traits, desires, etc do you think would make you personally more suited to one or the other if you had to go all-or-none?
Edited 7/15/2008 9:59 am ET by finally.me
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I like my job and all, but seriously if I could depend on the same standard of living without working, heck YEAH, I'd stay at home!!
(But I wouldn't go looking for more kids to raise, so I dunno about the whole SAHM thing ;)
Kitty
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You know. I love my job I really do and on nights like Sunday ngiht when my job was to hang out with Kelly and greet people at the Indigo Girls show before sliding into our 3rd row aisle seats -- yeah it's pretty b*tchin.
BUT. I have to say. if the lottery were dumped in my lap.
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