Sunday, 30 November 2008

• How do you not work???

  How is it even possible to be a stay at home mom?  I would love to be able to stay with my child once it is born, but there is something called bills..my bills alone take up 1/2 of what I bring home.  And daycare around here is, for the CHEAPEST, at least $600 a month (which is the other half of my money).  So that leaves no money for diapers, clothes, doctors visits, etc.  The father is going to help out but he is in the same boat I am right now, bills take up the majority of what we bring home.  So how do I do it?  Even if I quit, I would still have to work part-time somewhere to be able to make enough to pay my bills.

  My problem is that I have only worked at my current job for 4 months.  I can't march in there and demand a raise (plus they aren't going to give me the $2/hr more I would need).  I feel like I am using them if I leave right after my maternity leave.  (Plus, they would just fire me anyway if I told them I didn't plan on coming back..so there's 6 weeks of money gone when I can't work).  I'd lose my insurance before the baby is born and would have the hospital bill out-of-pocket.  But if I take my maternity leave, and come back for a couple of weeks and then quit, it just doesn't seem fair to the employer.

  I can't stand the thought of someone else raising my child though.  I would miss the first rolling over, first crawling, first steps, first words..everything.

  And before it's suggested, I cannot get a work-from-home job, it's impossible around here.  My job now cannot be taken home.  They can't give me something else to work on from home.  It's either work full-time or quit and lose my paycheck and my insurance.

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