Which came first, the title or the SAHW?
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Which came first, the title or the SAHW?
| Fri, 12-19-2003 - 9:04am |
Last night I attended my husband's work Christmas party. I sat with the CEO, CFO, CTO, COO (Chief operations officer, I didn't know that acronym, I had to ask), Creative Director, Marketing Director and their wives. Near the end of the evening it was just we wives chatting mostly about kids. I made the observation that even though all the wives were intelligent, educated and accomplished women, not a single one (except me), woh. They are all SAHM's.
Any thoughts on why that might be? I have my own opinion but I'd like to hear from everyone else first. Do you think they sah because of their husbands jobs or their husbands have their jobs because the wives stay home? Or doesn't it matter?

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do i work as hard as some? No. do i work as hard or harder than others? Yup.
eileen
Susan
Not at my job, it doesn't. At my job, full time is 37.5 hours a day and THEY occur from 11pm to 7am."
Like I said @ (which means about) 40 hours. You work 37.5, thats @40! Drrr!
9 Which leaves PLENTY of time to visit museums, parks and the library."
Even with 12.5 hours of commuting and 37.5 working? You are amazing -- and must not sleep much!
" And I know for a fact, I'm not the only person in the US with fewer than 40 hours counting full time, whoork nights.."
Who said you were?
Laura
MM
I LOVE our commute and, in fact, we probably went a little higher in price with our house than we should have (not much, but definitely a bit) because we wanted to make sure that our commute was kept to a minimum. Otoh, I figure that with the cost of gas around here (over $4 a gallon) we probabably actually saved a lot just by lowering our gas comsuption.
Laura
eileen
I commute an hour and 15 minutes to work, and an hour and 15 minutes home. that, plus my 8 hour day (minus 30 minutes unpaid for lunch) leaves 13.5 hours every single day of non-working/commute time. I sleep about 8.5 hours a day, leaving 5 hours a day, or 25 hours during the week. In 25 hours, I can generally find the time to visit the park 3 times a week (1 hour/day to walk the 4 mile perimeter of the lake), and a 30-45 minute trip to the library once a week and more than enough time to take a 4 hour block of time to visit a museum and still make sure I get all the housework chores completed. the library and park are close to my home and the museums surround my office (one of the advantages of working shift work one block from the White House).
It's hardly anything that difficult.
do I visit the museums every single week? No, but I never claimed to. I simply said there's plenty of time to do so, and do it on a weekday while still working full time.
It's also more environmentally friendly to take the subway, so I try to be part of the public that keeps the system viable. And it keeps the city rats from munching on the wiring in my car; one of my co-workers had to have his entire wiring harness replaced on his car because the rats had chewed through so many of the systems.
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