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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are burnt out at your job, you might leave your job with an eye towards re-entering the workforce in a different job at around 1 year. By then you'll have a better idea about how you feel about all of this, anyway.

The income argument (daycare costs more than I make) has never really held water for me. It might cost more than you make NOW, but what about the opportunity cost of an interrupted career trajectory?

So again, if I were you, I would take some time off initially and use it to think about what you might do when you go back that would be less draining and perhaps better paid.

Good luck! [/quote]

There's not a lot of opportunity cost to interrupting a $35k before-tax job. [/quote]

[b]35k x5 > 0 x5[/b]

Also, way way easier to get a job when you have a job.

These entry level jobs are very difficult to compete with new grads with zero time constraints.

OP has a workaholic spouse, so she will need to drop off and pickup or do both ends with the nanny -- so her hours will be very strict and making them any longer impossible; getting hired with no recent work history and those constraints is tough.

Better goal: aim for higher paying job NOW, and try to shift to WAH or part-time by the time the kid is a little older and you want spend more time with them (afternoons at the park, eventually  school commitments)[/quote]

Not when you factor in the cost of daycare. (35*5) - (40*5) < 0 *5[/quote]

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