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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the cost? Will you be able to manage the evenings alone? Will everyone's stress level rise? Will you lose quality of life? Do you or DH have flexibility or additional funds for kids appointments, sick days, holidays, camps? Will the type of job you want have flexibility for pick ups and drops off? Can your DH cut back at all to be able to balance out your working?

More money always sounds good and can be used when funds are tight but look at the costs as well as the benefits. What comes out on top?

10K is good money but not enough to compromise your quality of life or spend your week exhausted, stressed out and running ragged.[/quote]

OP, i know you already noticed this, but this is great advice.  i have been a SAHM for 4 years now, and i am itching to get back to work.  but working FT with a DH that has a demanding FT job will be really hard on our family.  $ would be great, but all of the perks of having me at home will *POOF* vanish.  my kids are a little younger than yours, at 2yo and almost 4yo.

i think if you can find a position that 1) you love, and 2) has some level of flexibility (maybe not immediately, but eventually after proving yourself), it would probably be a good move.  but absent those two things, it may not be worth what you are giving up (for the moment, anyway).  [/quote]

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