WTTers – Work

[Georgie90]

What would happen with your LO if you had to go back to work, I was discussing this with OH and we financially wouldn’t cope if I gave up work. I am the main earner and earn a lot more than OH. So if I was allowed to go back to work for 4 days, we may just scrape by…

We are curious what you will be doing?

Monday – OH off work. I’m at Work.
Tuesday – Both at work.
Wednesday – OH off work – with him. I’m at work
Thursday – Both at work (my mum will have)
Friday – I can take this off. OH at work.
Saturday – Both off
Sunday – OH works. I’m Off

What would you do?

xxx

 

[Button#]

As hubby is the main earner we've worked out we could get by with me as SAHM. One of the women I work with her OH is a SAHD as se earns more.

 

[StarlitHome]

We've been talking about this off and on since before we got married.

I had a working dad and SAH mom (who also had 8 other kids and homeschooled - she's Superwoman and I do not aspire to that!) and dH had two working parents.

At first dH said I should work when we have kids. I didn't like the idea but kept quiet because it was early yet.
Then, as we talked more and more about his childhood (constantly being left with his aunt who is a very clingy and controlling woman, she constantly undermined his parents about how they were raising dH [she's never been married, never had children] like writing them letters about how taking dH to the beach with his other siblings was bad because he could get cancer, and she's continued this kind of passive-agressiveness up till now when dH is 27 years old...) he's come around to wanting me to be at home with our LOs.

I don't want to take my baby(s) to a sitter! I want them with me!

Since unlike my parents we are not at this point thinking of homeschooling, I'd probably work when the LOs go to school (not kindergarten, but by grade 2). Unless we decide to go with the school dH works at, and then I'll be home with the kids as it is kind of a combination homeschooling/class work type school.

dH is a teacher, we're putting money in savings every two weeks and living by a budget now, building up a good sized nest egg.

I'm sorry I got so long-winded!

Basically, I'll be a SAHM at least until our LOs are in grade school, and possibly after that depending on which route we take for education.

 

[Hayley90]

our plan (which we will do now for H, not sure about next baby though) is me back to work pretty soon (unless CTC get their bums in gear!) and my mum to take bub. FOr my first month back, working 2 days from home, then full time 5 days a week in office.

Next baby, liam will **hopefully** be earning more, so you never know i could be a SAHM/WAHM. I can dream!

 

[panther19]

I'm self employed so I can generally work when my OH is home, which has it's pro's and con's but I think will work out nicely when we do have a baby eventually. I will be off on mat leave for a full year and after that I have no intention of sending my child/children to daycare of any kind and plan to be home to take care of them when need be.
I do have a big family so they could probably help out now and then when need be.

 

[cerena]

You guys are extremely luck to have family that can help out. We currently live in Australia and all our family are back in Scotland so there would be no choice but to put our child into daycare while we are both working

I do think it's good for them to mix with other children their own age and I was in daycare myself as a child and realise my mum had to go to work to pay the bills, especially when she became a single mum.

We do hope to have our own business eventually though

 

[Georgie90]

thanks everyone...I would love more than anything to be a SAHM but it will never happen xx

 

[booflebump]

Hopefully, I will get to be a SAHM - thats the plan at the moment. However, if I did need to return to work it would be on a part time basis and we would have to use a nursery as I have no family close enough to look after the little one

 

[wtt :)]

I'll most likely be a part time SAHM. I'm self employed and can therefore be at home when DH is at work or leave LO with my SIL/MIL/niece. We will see if one of them is available when i need to go to a client's house. Maybe partly daycare but not too worried about that yet. If worse comes to worst i can work on the weekends while DH is home but i am planning on staying home for the first 6 months as i want to breast feed, and after that partly pump so DH can feed baby when i'm not home. It will work somehow

 

[beccad]

I currently only work part time, three days per week. DH is the main earner by some considerably way. We could manage fine if I didn't work, but he and I both think it would be good for me to go back to my job after maternity leave. My mum would come and babysit one day per week, and we could work out some arrangement with my SIL as she's expecting a baby any day now, where she has my kids one day per week and vice versa, as she's going back to work part time too.

If that doesn't work out with SIL then I'd get a childminder, although not sure about that. DH has odd days off here and there, as he's freelance, so would be good not to have regular daycare, so he can babysit on days he's not working.