Reply to Breadwinner -- Dinnertime and weekends?

Forum Index » Relationship Discussion (non-explicit)

Reply to "Breadwinner -- Dinnertime and weekends?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH is the breadwinner and I am a SAHM. DH gets home by 6pm on most nights. He works late 1-2 times per week and works weekends when he is on call. DH is a physician. He is at the hospital right now. We have dinner together usually 5 out of 7 nights per week.[/quote]

How many weekends a night is he on call?  We are looking at most nights home after bedtime and weekend works as startup ramps up.  It seems like that is pretty rare, even in big law or lobbyists; everyone I takes a dinner break.  But in tech you often are working problems as a team and the website/code debugging is hard to pause for a family break.

But for those with BigLaw or someone who misses dinner and weekends regularly, is anyone satisfied with the arrangement b/c they get to stay home and focus on kids?[/quote]

DH is on call 10 weekends plus 1 holiday. He is a surgeon. His schedule is somewhat predictable.

I used to work in finance before I was a SAHM. Many of my male colleagues had SAHMs and missed dinner with their families every weeknight and worked most weekends. I still think everyone had at least one weekend day off. These guys made a lot of money, hundreds of thousands or millions. Everyone took off during Christmas and a summer vacation.

Would he be working around the clock forever or just for a short time?

It just seems risky for a tech start up. It is one thing if he is making $500k or $2 million.[/quote]

We are not doing it for big payout but it is more money so allows for the SAHM setup. But I guess only way to make sustainable is to make those finance siE Numbers bc money makes everything easier![/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics