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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I stopped working when I had 3 kids this age. DH earned more, but we don’t have family money.

Where do you live and where is your work and dh’s work?

I would try to work part time and go in one day per week. Or try to get laid off and get severance so you can get a new job. I would look slowly and spend time with the kids.[/quote]

Op here. Going in one day a week won’t be an option - wasn’t approved. It’s simply three days or bust now. My husbands office is an about an hour commute door to door and he goes in about once a week and works from home the rest of the week. So I either keep doing this job virtually and wait for an exit package in early 2026, or look externally now or then.[/quote]

If your husband is also fully WFH that should give you a lot more brandwidth. I’m a PP and assumed that you were in a similar position to me (spouse full RTO with long commute) since you didn’t mention your husband once. Is he able to pick up any slack if you are 3 days RTO?

Given his flexibility, the fact that your work is uncompromising about RTO, and that you’ve been given lots of anecdotal info and advice already…this is kind of where you need to sit down together and figure out finances and child rearing priorities.

If you realize from that convo that you need to work then I don’t know why you wouldn’t start looking externally. Doing so will give you a sense of how competitive the market is right now. A lot of employees in DC have been negatively impacted by DOGE and a lot of RIF’d feds are looking for work and even more feds will be looking for work soon because the SC ok’d additional RIFs. There is no reason to think the job market will get better in early 2026. [/quote]

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