Poll: Working Mom/ SAHM

[Anonymous]

My mom worked PT.

I work PT.

[Anonymous]

My mom - SAHM until I was 8, then worked part time
I am a SAHM.

[Anonymous]

My mom worked like a mad woman- more than full time. I am happily a SAHM. I worked as a professional in the med field until my DD was born and will probably go back (PT) when DD is past 5.

[Anonymous]

Mom was SAHM, I was PT (own business) when the kids were little. On August 26 I am full time once again as I am going back to FT teaching.

Kids are now 4 and 5 1/2. I will be teaching at their NW DC private school.

[Anonymous]

mom worked hard and so do I.

[Anonymous]

Mom SAH some of my childhood and worked PT when I was school aged. I work PT during the school year, SAH in summer.

[Anonymous]

mom sah, i sah

[Anonymous]

Mom worked PT her whole life. I SAH.

Mom would be horrified if she was alive and saw that both her daughters are SAHMs.

[Anonymous]

Mother worked FT, worked a lot. My sister and I are both SAHMs.

[Anonymous]

my mom worked full time and so do i. i have a tough relationship with her that has nothing to do with her working outside the home but i gotta say, i admired her as an asian professional woman, a rarity in her era. so, always knew i'd work. would go nuts without it.

[Anonymous]

My mom worked FT and I'm a SAHM but will probably return to work when my youngest starts kindergarten (if I can find work!!).

[Anonymous]

I work full time.

My mother stayed at home until my younger sister went to kindergarten (or maybe first grade) -- so until I was 7 or 8. She had kids relatively late (34) for the 1960s, and had a career before having us. She went back part-time when she went back to work. For a while PT equaled probably 30 hours/week, until she got sick and scaled that back to maybe 20. She was a physical therapist and had contracts with nursing homes -- so she dropped one of her three contracts, if I remember correctly -- so in theory she could have ramped that up again, had she been healthy enough. (But she wasn't.)

I think it would be hard to find any real pattern in these answers -- I imagine all sorts of other factors weigh into this decision -- chosen profession, age when had children, economic environment when had children, etc.

[Anonymous]

My mom worked more than full time and started as a computer engineer way back in the 60s. It was a different time and place, she did not tell her boss that she was pregnant with my younger sister in 1974 until she was 8 months pregnant and I do not think she even took a full month off. She is still what many would term a workaholic at 70, but also takes a lot of flex time to do stuff with my kids.

My sister was a SAHM for 12 years until she divorced and has worked but also struggled to find the right career path since then. I got married much later (at 38) and am an attorney, I work FT but with a lot of flexibility - govt attorney. I have two daughters and expect they will work and really hope they can find something they are passionate about to do (not law). If they choose to SAH, I would also think that is a fine choice.

[Anonymous]

I work FT. Mom stayed at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mom did not work and neither do/will I.

never?

My mom SAH, and I work PT. I will never SAH again. too risky