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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I quit being a SAHM because of this. It’s not just about reading books or having hobbies.

It’s more about building something and interacting with other adults to achieve something. With kids, once you get the basics down, it’s just the same thing day after day with no end in sight. With work, there’s an actual project with a completion date that requires creativity, trial and error, and it pushes me to my limits. Also helpful I’m surrounded by people who also geek out over the things I do and show a lot of appreciation (which, let’s be honest, kids and husbands don’t).

I know moms who are very happy being SAHMs and that’s great for them. But I can’t do it. [/quote]

Okay, I also found being a SAHM kind of boring as the kids got older, but a lot of that is that I just spent so much time doing chores.  I feel like actually caring for kids is constantly changing and requires a lot of improvisation.  Frankly, sometimes I feel like I go to work just to get a break.  
Being a parent to kids who are 2, 4, and 6 is very different than being a parent to kids who are 7, 9, and 11, and it’s different again from being a parent to kids who are all teens.  Almost nothing you learn those first few years is useful ten years later.

Meanwhile, being a doctor is pretty much the same.  There have been some minor changes, but, unlike being a mother, it’s not a completely different job than it was fifteen years ago.  [/quote]

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