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[quote=Anonymous]I was a SAHM who went back to work. Until my youngest goes to K, a LOT of my salary is eaten up in daycare/aftercare costs. I'm a teacher and the salary is not awesome to start with but throw in a $2200 month daycare bill and you could argue I am basically paying to work.

However. That's not the point. The point is, I love my work, it fulfills me and makes me happy, I'm good at it, and if my husband were to leave me or die, I would at least have a way to provide for my kids. I also have two daughters and while I loved staying home with them when they were little and am grateful we could make that work, it's also important to me they see their mother have a career and work because I want them to know they have options too. They need to have a strong role model of how a woman can be a mom, wife AND have her own successful career she loves.

So for OP or anyone else to boil the value of a job down to straight dollars in vs dollars out is short sighted and misses the point. If it would make her happy, give her a purpose and sense of identity and give her more independence, she should do it, even if technically it doesn't bring in money once you factor in childcare. [/quote]

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