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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You all are right- I want the flexibility of staying home while not wanting my lifestyle to drastically change.  We are going to "live off" DH's salary through the remainder of 2013, minus the expenses we'd give up if I stay home.  To be perfectly honest, I'm not interested in a career.  I have a communications degree from a school you've probably never heard of (now comprised of mostly spoiled rich kids from the DMV) and wound up with a security clearance and job with the feds that pays me nearly 6 figures to be a glorified secretary.  I'm not using my brain and cry each and every Sunday because I just want to hang out with my daughter instead of phoning it in at this silly job.  I have a great 20 minute commute, nice coworkers and because the job doesn't require a rocket scientist, time to peruse message boards.  I GET that it's not that bad.  But at the end of the day, it IS that bad.  Why pay someone else $2500 a month to raise my child when I think I'm pretty capable of doing it myself? I guess when I put it that way, I don't really need those "extras" as much as I think I do.[/quote]

For the love of god and my sanity (or someone like me) PLEASE quit NOW and help your coworkers replace you with someone who WANTS to be there and do a good job!!  I'm so frustrated with whiny women at work that can't get their shit together and would rather be home.  I have absolutely no sympathy and you are just in the way.  If you make near 6 figures than I guarantee you are expected to be more than a glorified secretary, but you have turned your job into that.  Awesome way to spend the tax payers money!  [/quote]

OP here-

There's a difference between not wanting to work and still going to work and doing a good job.  Because I work in federal CONTRACTING (with a HIGH LEVEL CLEARANCE) ...I make a pretty decent living to ANSWER PHONES.  Create excel calendars.  All that awesome secretary work.  This morning, I even get to print out posters on plotters and then hang them up.  And as for wasting your hard earned tax payers money, let me tell you- the agency I work for doesn't hesitate to cut the fat.  In this fiscal enviornment, it's put up or shut up... and it's MUCH easier to get rid of a contractor who's not pulling their weight vice a government employee who has to go through rounds of employment improvement plans, mentoring, etc.  On any given day, you can bet your snarky ass that we're doing more work then our government counterparts.  That's not the issue here.  Just because staying at home is not for you (thank God for your kids!!!- and not just because you want them to see that "Mommies use more of their brains then just doing your laundry") doesn't mean that there aren't hard working, ambitious people out there who have fallen into a job path they don't like and are trying to find a way to make it work for them to do something that they personally feel will be more rewarding for them.  I'm sure there are people who would KILL to sit at my desk, answering phones for a LOT of money.  I came on this board to see how other people have transferred from two fairly large incomes to a one income house... not to listen to your BS about how I'm whiny at work.  [/quote]

"For what it's worth- I'm not really into my job."  "To be perfectly honest, I'm not interested in a career."  "I'm not using my brain and cry each and every Sunday..."

Yes, I'm sure that you go to work and do a good job based on your statements above.  I'm guessing that if you actually were doing a good job you'd be given more responsibility than being a glorified secretary.  So you're probably not contributing as much as you think while wasting the tax payer's dollars.  "Were doing more than our govt counterparts"???  You have to group yourself with you coworkers just to justify making this statement.  After reading your posts I highly doubt you are doing more than the govt employees.  Cutting contractors also isn't as easy as you think.  Easier than cutting govt, but it still takes times.  If it were easy half of the dumb-ass contractors in my office would be gone already.

It might not be an issue for you, but trust me it's an issue for those you support and work with.  I've seen it over and over.  If you're seriously crying every Sunday because you have to go to work the next day then your office notices and wishes you would just quit already.  Just do everyone a favor and move on so someone who actually wants your job and wants to do a good job can move in.  You make it harder for the women that do want a career.  If you want to SAH, then just do it already.

If it makes you feel any better, I'd say the same thing to a man or woman that was in a career field that was not a good match for them.  Move on!

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