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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  My child and my friends kids are all between ages 3-4, so many of them haven't dealt with before/after care or camps yet because like I said, everyone I know who works full-time either has an au pair (majority of families), one spouse works from home and can cover, or they have local grandparents who babysits/nannies regularly.  So they aren't scrambling to find coverage for sick/snow days or summers as much.  The logistics of figuring all this out do seem incredibly overwhelming since spouse's job is 100% inflexible so it all falls on me.  So far it's been easy because any sick/snow days and all summer is just me, spouse has never taken any time off for any of these situations.  It's challenging to try to figure out how I would get all that time covered, especially since new jobs usually have limited vacation time.

But the logistics aside, my question is more of what can I do with my degrees and my limited work experience.  I preferred the school counseling aspect of my job to teaching.  I can try to find sub jobs as a first step to getting back into things but I want to explore what else I could possibly do with a JD and a master's in special education.  I'm having difficulty envisioning job possiblities for myself.  I guess having an actual career is probbably not realistic at this point.

Thanks![/quote]
Your husband doesn't take time off because you stay home.  Unless he is a surgeon with a patient on the table, the notion that he can never stay home on a snow day or sick day is ridiculous, especially if he supports you going back to work.

Everyone else on earth makes it work, as can you.  Oy.[/quote]

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