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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well the truth is you do have more time than a woh mom who has 8 + hrs of her day dictated by others

Your 8 hours during that same time are yours to manage how you want and the truth is a lot of people suck at time management and fill in with hours with busy work that exhaust but do nothing.

SAHMs who have been home for years and never really worked also lack so many basic office skills - create a simple formatted doc, make a slide, create a simple spreadsheet - that WOHMs take for granted and do all the time. [/quote]

I have been a working mom and now a SAHM.

I recently told a friend that I did much more volunteering when I was a working mom than now that I’m a SAHM. I had far more energy when I was working. It was easy to make phone calls, write emails, make a flyer without a baby/toddler. It is hard to get anything done with a little human next to you. There is always something that needs to be done like dishes, laundry, etc and I have cleaners. It is just physically exhausting.

I have two masters and held senior positions. The reason I decided to stay home is because I felt I did not spend enough time with my children.[/quote]

This. Same experience. It was so hard to get anything “extra” done when I was home with small kids. It’s relentless! I also do more volunteer work, more school related stuff, and help out friends and family more now that I’m working and my kids are in school. Most office jobs have a decent amount of leeway in terms of taking time to make a phone call or order something online or send some emails. We had home repairs that languished for months when I was a SAHM that I got fixed almost immediately after I was working and everyone was out of the house.

Being a SAHM to under 5s is all consuming. I wanted to do more but just couldn’t. I was tired constantly. Now as a working mom, I exercise more, I don’t wake up tired everyday, and yes, I do more. It’s just hard to get much done with toddlers around. You have to focus on their needs and they have a lot of needs. If you have a nanny or send your kids to daycare (or have family help) you may not realize how intense it is for all that to be on you. It’s so much easier now that I share that with my kid’s teachers.[/quote]

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