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| Thu, 07-01-2010 - 10:33pm |
SAH and WOH
Which has proven to be more difficult?
I was reading a post below and someone stated that staying home was more difficult.
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You did not state in your OP that you were only referring to full time WOHH plus the hours worked has nothing to do with my post.
Having time commitments to others outside my family having to deal with an ill child that conflicted with those commitments are things that I experienced both as a SAHM and a WOHM.
How so?
PumpkinAngel
Given the question is directed at moms have have been both SAH and WOH themselves, this answer is cracking me up! I am a SAHM now, but I guess my being a WOHM from age 29 to age 36 doesn't count?!?!?!!
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I have the same experience ("Maybe it's different in other areas, but most of my friends and many of my acquaintances didn't have kids until they hit 30 or so, after establishing a career. When their first children were born, they continued to work, and only after it seem financially feasible (or the logistics got to be a problem--WOHM is hard!), did they quit to SAH.")
Except that the only people I know who are sahps are because the logistics got to be too hard - in that one or both had an inflexible job and/or one or more of the children have special needs of some sort. I don't know any sahps who quit to sahm soley because of the finances - they would have kept on working if other things hadn't interfered despite being able to afford to live on one income. Most didn't quit until well after baby #2 because of flexibility and family issues.
Where I am, dual woh is the norm and sah happens if needed.
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every SAHM you know has also been a working MOM at one time or another?
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