Question of the Day! To work or not to?!

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Question of the Day! To work or not to?!
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Sun, 11-09-2008 - 1:23pm

Question of the day!! (Please answer even if you already stay home, ect.)


To return to work or to stay home????


When you get preggers and have you baby do you plan to return to work (if you working now) or stay home!?!


Or are you going to do a combination like work part time/stay home part time,


DH work part time/you work part time,


Or you or DH stay home


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Sun, 11-09-2008 - 1:38pm

I'll be going back to work (but just because I have to financially). Unless I can swing something where its just part-time. Its all financial, not by choice. But my Mom will be helping as far as watching the baby, so that will be somewhat of a relief.

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Sun, 11-09-2008 - 1:39pm

Okay i am replying!!


Right now I work full time, and the Health insurance is in my name through my work. DH


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Sun, 11-09-2008 - 1:43pm
Yeah that is my struggle the financial part of things. And I know my mom will help too (expecially snce she lives across the street from me). And DH's work schedule is a little odd and he will get to be a SAHD more because he works weekends and nights But not consistantly enough for him to be considered a SAHD. He works 3 days a week 9 to 5 or 2 days a week 9 to 5. It just depends. He works for the Sacramento Kings, as thier merchandise person. He runs a merchandise stand at thier home games, and runs merch stand for special events and concerts. So depending on thier schedule is when he is home.


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Sun, 11-09-2008 - 2:11pm

When we eventually get our BFP and have a baby I will have to go back to work full time.


There may be an option to slightly reduce my hours (for reduced pay), but that would just be slightly later start time or slightly earlier finish time.


We couldn't afford for me to work part time or for me to be a SAHM.


I am hoping that my Mum and MIL will look after a baby (I'm sure they will, but they don't know we are TTC).


I don't think we'll afford more thn 3 months off work.


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Sun, 11-09-2008 - 2:29pm
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Sun, 11-09-2008 - 2:31pm

I am a stay at home mom. Before my son was born I worked as a teacher at a child care center.

Me staying at home was (and still is) something that my DH and I both wanted and we figured out ways to make it work. We cut a lot of things - cut my cell phone bill (I now have a tracphone because its cheaper and since I don't go many places to use it much), cut out other unnecessary things that we could live without so that we could live on just DH's salary. Its working well for us. We have to watch sometimes how much we're spending, but its working well. DS and I get health insurance with DH's work.

I also babysit other kids occasionally and that gives us some extra money. Starting in February till May I'll be watching a little girl 2 days a week for 3 hours each day while her mom teaches a class at a local college. I also have a job doing work online (set my own hours, no requirements so good for SAHM's) - its not a lot of extra money each month, but it is some - I mainly do it while my DS naps and in the evening after he's in bed.

If staying at home is something that you want and something that you DH/SO supports you on, you can find ways to make it work. :-)


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Sun, 11-09-2008 - 2:31pm

Ah, to work or not to work, that is the question!

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Sun, 11-09-2008 - 2:33pm

I wish I could stay home too. But financially just like everyone else it would be hard.


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Sun, 11-09-2008 - 2:43pm

I work as a teaher at a childcare center right now!! So I dont really make a lot of money, It is very underpaid. And it would be easy to find areas to cut. For instance I wont need to drive my car to work. DH could instead use it to communte. Saving us on gas money (because it only takes 30 to fill up my car and 80 to fill up his truck, my car is also gas effiecient) And I wont need to drive to work so he can take the car. On the occasions that there is an appt or something i can walk or he can just take his truck that day. We have started trying to find areas to cut. And your right if you put your mind at it then it will work.


My problem is still the insurance but we can figure that out too.


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Sun, 11-09-2008 - 2:47pm

You are right - child care teachers are very underpaid! We felt it when I wasn't getting paid anymore, but we had tried to save before DS was born to help cushion the transition too - kind of helped, but we ended up having a weird situation so had some extra costs. But anyway, if its something you both want, you can figure out a way to make it happen :-)

Let me know if there's anything I can help with - if you want to know anything else about what we did.

(hope everything is spelled right, DS was helping me type this.)


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