Boy, I wish I had the option to quit working! I hate this like poison. I know I should be grateful that I have a job for probably another month or six weeks, but every day is a torture and it’s been like that for years and years. Imagine, if you will, being lorded over and ordered around by Muslim women in burkhas! That’s what I have to put up with.
I was a stay-at-home mom and corporate wife for many years. Sole responsibility for all cooking, cleaning, chores, errands, yardwork, major home-improvement projects, childcare, finances, everything. Zero help from the husband; he didn’t understand that he got to knock off at 5, but when you have a big house and two kids with health problems, you’re on duty 24 hours a day 365 days a year, even on Christmas and vacations. Getting up at 3 a.m. to clean up vomit is no joy.
But that was a hundred times better than my present gig, which is doing all that and working full time and trying to get a home business started while simultaneously looking for a new job and dealing with health issues. I’d go back to the old way in a heartbeat. Motherhood and homemaking really can be so fulfilling as you watch young lives bloom and help them along their path, and I loathe leaving my kids, animals, and house to slave away for an unappreciative corporation.
Aint that the truth, though? I went back two years ago. By the time I got home form work, took the kids to whatever lesson or sports thing they had going on that day, threw a load of wash in, made some dinner...it would be 9:30 before I got a chance to sit down and take a peek online or catch some brainless TV to unwind. And even then, I had to do my nails for the next day or read up something work related. By that time, my husband already had a good three hours "in his chair". I actually had a decent job with decent hours (9-4) and it was still overkill.
I don't know how some women do it.