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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.. Let me re-phrase.  If you hate your job, how do you get through your days until you can find another position? Listen to music, take long lunch, be passive-aggressive???  Like one NICE poster said, it will take awhile... Home is where the heart is...[/quote]

I am not reading 10 pages of vitriol, but saw this post of OP's at the bottom of the first page and decided to answer.

I never got to be SAH.  Have been WOHM since DD was an infant, although I was able to cut back to 4 days per week a few years ago.  Hate it.  Hate it with a passion, and it certainly doesn't help that I don't like my job.  Find myself envious every morning as I drive to work and I see moms walking dogs or going for morning runs.  Maybe they just go to work later than I do, but I always feel as if they are SAH.  Same thing in the afternoon as I pass moms walking kids home from school.

How do I handle it? Not very well.  Tell myself multiple times per day that I'm grateful for the paycheck, as our lives would be dramatically different if we only had one income.  I try to maximize my time with DD when we are home.  I save personal time for after she's in bed or early in the morning.  We don't vacation without her.  I do my best to be involved in her classroom and make lots of memories when we are together.

Make no mistake, it is very hard.  Maybe it would be better if I found my job fulfilling, but somehow I have a feeling that no job would ever compare to the desire to be a SAH wife and mother.[/quote]

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