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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Op I think you could do this. [/b]Try to secure a flex independent professional job first.

That way you have a little something coming in.

This is another possibility: always have 2 of these going at once (20h for one, 20h for the other, more or less) Could do 30+10, or some variation. So you can rely on hopefully one to stick even if the other dissipates. If one does dissipate, you pick up another small flex job.

Whatever industry and work you are in, start there.

If you get one going, retire. Then pick up another.

I’m a Sahm returning, and I have 2 things like this going. Flexible quantity of hours, so I put in what I can fit in, what I feel like earning. About 20-30 hours I am doing right now in one job. The other is my own freelance so I have complete control of hours. Would like to shift more into that, drop off fewer hours in the other and keep the other thing going a little bit.[/quote]

Umm, while I appreciate your unbridled optimism what are you basing this on? The only concrete facts Op had shared is that she is 35, burnt out from her job and has a husband with no near term retirement plans.

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I did not read that op was 35 until much later.
For a while I couldn’t figure out if 35yo was OP or someone else.

Thanks.

I maintain op could find a better job. And maybe one with flex options so they can earn a little.

I calculated my sahming was worth 14k annually. More or less. (Priceless in some ways). So, if she wants to do this, and DH thinks it works, she could also figure out what her efforts contribute to the house.[/quote]

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