Working for Lifestyle/Extras
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| Mon, 11-20-2006 - 11:13am |
Hi Ladies :)
This is my first time on this debate board and I have been dying to jump into some of the topics, but I feel as though they are sooooo long (one in particular is over 1000 replies, yikes!) that starting my own specific one might work out better.
Anyhow, a recurring theme here seems to be what Moms should and shouldn't be going to work for. It seems some are of the opinion that is OK for Mom to work if she must to pay her bills but NOT if its to afford a nice car, house, good neighborhood. This is considered keeping up with the Johnses (who are they???) and thats bad.
Well, I want to know what in the heck is wrong with a women working to have nice things? I don't mean working and leaving baby in child care 16 hours a day, everyday...thats pretty extreme.
I enjoyed a certain lifestyle before having a child, should I have downsized that lifestyle once baby came so I didn't have to work? What about me *wanting* to maintain a certain lifestyle for myself, my husband, and my child makes me a (a) workaholic or (b) striving to keep up with the Joneses?
Don't some people (like myself) simply enjoy living in a nice place with nice things and want their children to have the same experience?
So please, anyone who thinks a women is wrong for WOH if she is not doing so to financially survive but does it to maintain a certain lifestyle...whats wrong with this?
Thanks all :)

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"If it is mainly a trust issue for you, I honestly do not understand why your kid is in school."
Really now. That is a pretty ridiculous statement.
You do not have to say it three times. It is a reasonable question, given what you have posted. If you have this trust issue, how do you make the leap of faith that allows you to send your kid to school? It is a serious question.
I had a fine day, thank you. I did not work today, only stopped by to check on something for 15 minutes. The rest of the day, I was in class, had lunch with dh and a business associate, took dd to the orthodontist, came home and cooked dinner for her.
Sabina
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
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Yes, it is.
Sabina
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
Absolutely. I'll probably never spin through 100 mysteries a summer again, not for many, many years. And I'm okay with not watching TV much anymore. My main hobbies, my studies and jogging, I haven't had to scale back on at all.
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