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[quote=Anonymous]Hi all,
I have looked on OPM, and maybe I just don't understand the guidance....and my HR really is no help.

I am interested in how long one can be a federal employee in LWOP status - I had heard that it's a year - and be able to keep your job.  I never took FMLA so I still have that if necessary.  However, I am unable to find any reliable child care (like 14 day care wait lists for over a year so far - our respective agencies do not sponsor a site) and paying a nanny to care just for our child only brings me $1000 every month.

We are in the process of considering selling our home vs using it as a rental, which would give us a large sum of money at once (we don't know where we want to live long term, so we are renting downtown for a year while we figure it out).  If we use that money to 1) pay down the car loan, which isn't that big to begin with 2) put some money away for our child and 3) pay off a significant part of the mortgage of our investment property, I feel like between the cash we would have on hand and the money we would save in child care would be MORE than worth it in the short term.

I am not prepared to leave my job just yet.  I'm not satisfied at all with my job, but it pays bills.  I feel like if I have the opportunity to take LWOP, avoid all this back and forth drama with childcare, yet still have the ability to return to work, I would take advantage of it.  It would be more stable for my office (no "I can't come in this week, we have no childcare") and more stable for my child (providing consistent care).

In the long term, I do NOT want to be a SAHM.  I just feel like I am always scrambling and it's not healthy for any of us or my office.  I remember reading somewhere that this was possible, it just impacted your service comp and all that, which is fine (I get my health care through my husband).

thanks for any help![/quote]

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