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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for the very frugal PP.  I am intrigued by your lifestyle.  But here's a question:  You and your  DH both work FT and yet your HHI is just $99K.  Do you think you could make better salaries if you were to have just a bit of steady childcare?  Seems like you could have a lot of earnings potential with your determination and good writing skills.  Do you aspire to higher salaries?  I just feel like there are a lot of opportunity costs here.  Perhaps one of you could just try to work FT and make more, and then one of you could just stay home instead of doing this big juggle?
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Another PP here, I addressed this in an earlier post, too, but PP ignored it.

The 9:33 discussion for under-3 care is very muddled, but I guess the takeaway is that maternity leave and then DH ws home for 6 years, and worked when kids slept and then when she got home, b/c he runs his own business (maybe some kind of website business?).  Its likely that kind of spotty work schedule makes it hard for both of them to 'lean in'[/quote]

OPEN your mind.  There are many fields of work with non-traditional work hours, or flexibility such as:

shift workers like nurses, doctors, physician assistants, engineers
artists, writers, designers
therapists, psychologists, speech language pathologists
mailmen, cable technicians
construction workers
teachers, tutors, college professors, adjuncts
translators
editors
consultants

and dozens more.  Oh, and "website businesses".[/quote]

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