tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2476808902704210325.post5243753077088621534..comments2023-08-26T08:12:45.325-05:00Comments on Countryside Life: Not a real job....or is it?Aprilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07281951290036529118noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2476808902704210325.post-17233111941759222032014-06-07T01:59:33.694-05:002014-06-07T01:59:33.694-05:00I agree. If I could do it all over again, I would...I agree. If I could do it all over again, I would either homeschool my kids or take a job in their school building to keep better tabs on them. We trusted our children too much and within 3 months found out we were going to be grandparents x2 from our 15 and 16 year old daughters. It was a bad situation. Our family is still healing from it 12 years later. Both daughters managed to finish highschool and one has finished college. Both are now married, but the hurt from the arguments, and missed activities of growing up will always be there. At that time, My husband and I both worked evenings-I was 3-11 and he worked 12-12. Later we found out others knew our kids were running amuck while we were at work, but no one bothered to tell us, they didn't want to get involved. I wonder if they had told us though, if we would have listened to them? Hindsight.....makes you wonder. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2476808902704210325.post-35843056706585000402014-06-07T01:53:38.147-05:002014-06-07T01:53:38.147-05:00After a move across the state, I stayed home for 6...After a move across the state, I stayed home for 6 months to paint and unpack and job hunt. I worked 12 hours a day painting, cleaning, and cleaning up the neglected farm we moved to (it had been empty several years when we bought it and needed a lot of tlc). I faced the same rude comments from people. Isn't it odd though, that our grandparents generation was the other way around. In their time, the mom was expected to be home and was the oddity if she worked outside the home. Now, you are the oddity if you work at home or put your family first. I also agree teens need a stay at home parent now more than ever. We have had several in our rural county commit suicide, get pregnant, run away from home, get involved in drugs and even some teens breaking into homes and stealing cars. I wonder if they had a parent who was home to keep tabs on them, if that could have been avoided to a degree. Yes I know working parents can also check on their children, but with todays cell phones and call forwarding on phones, they could be anywhere when you call them to check on them. And, with the internet that is another can of worms. I have been searching for jobs that I can do from home. So far, I have found a company that makes hospital gowns and employees at homeworkers who have sewing skills to make them. I will be starting that job later this year, after I use up my paid vacations from my current job (its a use it or lose it deal).<br />Mary Ann Cainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2476808902704210325.post-5579378347717638312014-06-06T21:02:39.363-05:002014-06-06T21:02:39.363-05:00I very much agree with this. My mother in law nag...I very much agree with this. My mother in law nags me weekly because I am now a stay at home mother and care for the children of our neighbor across the street and next door. She does not understand why I gave up a job of $500 a week. I now have no gas, no car payment (we gave up my car-if I need it I take my husband to work). I cook and bake an this year we are doing a garden. We are close enough that during the day we can walk to the park and library, and I have lost 40 lbs from walking, which lowered our health insurance bill. I mow our yard now, instead of us having a service who charged $50 a week. I earn around $200 a week, and with no car payment, or insurance on my car, fuel, dry cleaner, or eating out, we are doing just fine. In fact, some months we actually have more at months end then we did when I did work full time out of the home. Also, I have learned to sew and during nap time am taking a Spanish class to learn a new language to assist when I do go back to work. If I was still working, after paying for the daycare that takes infants at $200 a week, I would be paying taxes on $500, and clearing after daycare $300, minus carpayment, insurance, gas, dry cleaning (was required to dress in a suit each day). But, each week she calls and tells me what a horrible wife I am for leaving her son to foot all the bills on his own.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com