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Rock and a Hard Place
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
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So you believe that working is ALWAYS a better choice because there's a proven benefit for everyone. This must be true because that's exactly what we're debating here. You see no general benefit to the children of SAHMs, but this higher SES that is given to ALL moms just because they have a job is the proven benefit of working. Right??
You still haven't responded to those families whose mom's income WOULDN'T raise her family's SES. And what about families where the SES is ALREADY high and mom going to work wouldn't raise it (or might, but it's not necessary because it's so high already.)
I'd also like to know what children with a high SES get as opposed to children of low SES. What, exactly, might be the difference. I'd like to know where my family stands.
And I didn't say my SAHM friends were "unable" to impact their family's SES. I said their income wasn't needed because it was already high.
Besides it is security for my family that has lead to this change. Engineering is no longer a profession you can count on a 30 year career in anymore. By 50 companies are, aggressivaly, trying to downsize you out. I'm making the change into teaching only a few years before that mark. Far better to move into teaching on my own at 47 than to be downsized out as an engineer at 52 with nowhere to go. I watched many people downsized out and the ones who did well had something totally different to fall back on. My something different is going into teaching. They say people today can count on three different careers. Teaching will be number 3 for me.
Edited 11/23/2003 5:46:42 PM ET by cyndiluwhoagain
About every other day, I find my ID doesn't work and have to make a new one, which is getting old. It's probably time to just give up and go away like they want me to.
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