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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I SAH full-time when my son was 0-2.  I went back to work very part-time when he turned 2 (10 hours per week) and now work the same now (he is 5 and in Kindergarten).  So I consider myself somewhat of a SAHM.  I plan to continue working 10 hours per week throughout elementary school at least.  I love my schedule.  It's the perfect mix of work an leisure.  Here's why I only work 10 hours per week:

-DH is in a very inflexible, non-family friendly job.  His hours are 6 am - 6 pm and will never change.  He can never do drop offs or pick ups, sick days or snow days.  Since I have to do all those things it makes sense for me to have a very flexible, part-time job.

-No local family in the area to help out for sick days or snow days.

-DH can't attend any programs/events at the school unless he takes the entire day off, so he can't take the morning off to go to a school event, for example.  Since we have no family in the area I feel like I need to be at every single school program/event so my son has someone there.

-DH works 70 hour weeks.  I take care of all the grocery shopping, meal prep, cleaning and repairs.

-Since I don't work every day, I still have free time to get appointments done, shop, work out, hobbies, etc.  It's great.

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working mom here.

10 hours is nothing. why even bother? I think our interns even do more than 10 hours a week.[/quote]

PP here.  Why bother?  Because I get to be a professional in the field I love but work reasonable hours, make good money (I get paid a lot per hour), and be there for everything my child needs (sick days, snow days, all school activities, volunteer at the school).  It's enough hours that I stay intellectually engaged but not enough hours that I feel burned out.  It's perfect and I love my schedule.[/quote]

I guess I'm just wondering what you can even accomplish in 10 hours.

Are you per diem?

One ten hour day a week would make sense.

But splitting it up over 3 or 5 days is crazy. What could you even get done in that time?![/quote]

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I think the point is she can choose to just work ten hours and enjoy the work.  Since she doesn’t need the money it keeps her brain sharp - also keeps her cv current.[/quote]

Lol 10 hours isn’t going to keep your brain sharp. That’s just delusional.[/quote]

Maybe it's delusional if you're not too sharp to begin with.  Some of us don't need much to maintain it.  You do you.  [/quote]

I used to work 10 hours or so a week teaching fitness classes- it was a fun hobby but how much could PP REALLY get paid an hour to make 10 hours worth it? Inless they make like $1000 an hour we are talking hobby money. If your hobby keeps you sharp that’s great- I enjoyed mine and I hope you enjoy yours- but let’s not pretend this is a valuable or lucrative or even well understood path. [/quote]

I have a colleague who works about 15 hours a week at around 250 dollars an hour. If he works 48 weeks out of the year, that's 180,000/annually. 
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