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[quote=Anonymous]I left my corporate job two weeks ago and will start in a new firm and February. So I have a very rare nine week period where I’m off work. I’ve been interested to see what it’s like to have a stay at home mom. And honestly I just don’t see how great it is if I were home all the time. Is that awful? I thought I would get a lot done that is the boring organization stuff. And I have. For example, yesterday I spent the afternoon cleaning out my son’s toy cupboards and arranging everything and throwing out broken pieces. And that was very satisfying. And then the minute he came home he took everything out played with everything. And then put everything back and of course a totally different place. Laundry is another example. Laundry is always in crisis mode around here. Since I’ve been home it hasn’t been, which is nice. But if I’m being honest we wore clean clothes before and we wear clean clothes now. The only real difference is that now my husband doesn’t have to do it along side me when we’re watching tv. Which isn’t much of a motivator for me.

I guess my bottom line is that I’ve always been envious of other families who have someone at home full-time because it seems like things are much calmer. And in my case, yes generally speaking things are a little bit calmer? But it hasn’t made a huge dent like I thought it would. I would say I would be 90% more unhappy if I didn’t have a job but the house will only be like 20% calmer. I don’t know if that makes any sense.[/quote]

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