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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another happy, fulfilled SAHM here.

[b]I never had a career, though. [/b] I've known for a long time that I WANTED to be a SAHM, this despite my "feminist" mom trying to convince me that I should be a diplomat or something.

My kids are all in school now, but I still stay home.   I "justify it" by knowing that on teacher in service days, snow days, sick days, etc. I don't have to scramble for child care.   I just love on the first snow day of each year, watching the news stories about all the parents grumbling that they had to leave work early to pick up their kids for the early snow closing.
Also, I do  a lot of volunteer work in the schools.   A LOT of programs/events/etc. happen in school because of SAH parents volunteering.[/quote]

You never had a career.

That says it all, PP.

So while your tone is smug, it's also laughable, as most working parents who are reading your post are only thinking you were too goddamn dumb to succeed in any position.

truth

You're not exactly a role model for kids now, are you?  [/quote]

PP, that's not a fair reading of that statement.  I am a WOHM with an Ivy League degree and a Ph.D.  I had a lot of trouble figuring out the career I wanted to have and dealing with the fact that my Ph.D. wasn't worth much since I couldn't move to another city for a tenure track job because of my partner's great job in DC with much higher earning potential.  I am just starting to figure out what might become a career for me instead of just a job. Plenty of people don't end up in a career (as opposed to just an employment situation) who are far from dumb. [/quote]

This just makes me laugh!

So there was ENOUGH money for your Ivy League degree . . . and then MORE money to cover your PhD . . . and then a partner's "great job in DC with much higher earning potential."

Do you want sympathy b/c the little rich girl can't find happiness?

Give me a break.  book smarts, street dumb

None of you get it.  While I love my job b/c it's not mindless, I am also among friends who work MINDLESS jobs b/c they have to.  Yes, I have to work, but my earning potential is also higher than theirs.  So I'm not necessarily struggling.

When I read posts on this forum about "fulfilled" SAHMs or "intellectually superior" women who stepped down from demanding jobs to stay home, I just cringe.  How often do you step out of this bubble to allow reality to give you a much needed bitch slap?

So Fulfilled SAHM OP is just an anonymous braggart.  That's all.  Anyone who posts about being "fulfilled" on a forum is insecure and needs to find others to help validate her cushy existence.

It's easy to be fulfilled and happy when you rely on others to do the work for you.  But IF that support were to be ripped away, how would you deal? Would you be happy returning to some MINDLESS job just to pay the bills?

I doubt it.

In fact, I'm 100% certain that the answer would be a FAT no!  [/quote]

A new poster here.  The idea that someone needs a "bitch slap" is ridiculous.  Here you are posting that OP must be insecure and in need of validation while yourself spending time opening this thread, reading it, and posting how other people need to live their lives and having doubts you just have to express about their capabilities is support were taken away.  And why do you call a poster "little rich girl," as though she's not a grown woman same as you and I are?

I'm also a SAHM right now.  We have help cleaning the house, and well as regularly-scheduled babysitters, and my kids are at school much of the time.  It's been great in many ways, and I wouldn't trade this time for anything.  That said, I have two ive-league degrees, and 16 years as a practicing lawyer under my belt, the last 6 of which I was the youngest supervising layer at my organization, as well as the youngest member of the US management team but quite a few years.  So don't go making assumptions about SAHMs and what they'd be doing without as much home support.  I've been asked twice in the past year to let my company know when I'd like to return, so I have a pretty good idea of what I'll be doing.  In the meantime, I'll enjoy the time with my kids, finish getting our house in order, travel a bit, spend more time with my parents, and not judge any woman based on whetehr she's working, at home, or has help or resources or not.  [/quote]

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