Anonymous wrote:Women should get more maternity PTO. It is a real shortcoming of our society.

I know, but GASP, "socialism!"

Meanwhile, we happily give billions in corporate welfare to the petroleum industry, agrobusiness, Wal-Mart (in the form of taxpayers paying pretty much 100% of the health care for their benefits-less employees) etc. But working moms? PAY YOUR OWN WAY, COMMIE!

Women should get more maternity PTO. It is a real shortcoming of our society.

I promise everyone on here is in love with their baby/child, too. No offense, but you didn't invent this feeling.

We'd all love to have the best of both worlds....get paid to stay home and bond with our babies all day. The reality of it is there aren't any jobs that give you the ideal balance of time and money. A nanny share might be a good compromise, but don't expect to get rich doing that. Maybe move to a progressive European country where you get more paid time off? You're already a teacher, so I'm assuming you get summers off, and your day (at least at-work day) ends at 3:30+/-. Many of us would love that schedule!

I'm sorry....this is your reality now. I also wish I could stay home and not work, but we can't afford it. Telecommuting would probably help because at least I could avoid the commute and spend more time in the mornings/afternoons with baby or getting stuff done around the house, but my job doesn't support telecommuting unless you have a medical reason.

I worked from home with FT childcare and was still too distracted to be productive. Funny enough, even though I saw my kids more, I felt like the quality of time diminished since I was always rushed/distracted. Now that I am back in an office, I feel like my life (my worlds, so to speak) is better compartmentalized and I can really focus on my kids when I'm with them.

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Anonymous wrote:There are no online jobs that you can do from home while you actually care for your child.

There are no jobs at all (other than nanny share) that you can do from home while you actually care for your child.

+1. The only caveat that I can think of is if it is a job that can be done when your spouse comes home. Then you can effectively "sign out" as a parent and go to a different room and do your online job until late at night.

I have no idea if such a job exists, though.

And, really, just because your 5 month old may right now be napping a lot and content to sit still and play with a toy, trust me, it will only remain like this for another month or two, tops. Then you will be chasing the crawling baby everywhere. And when baby reaches 1? Forget about it.

I have a work at home job that is results based and doesn't have set hours. In theory I could do all the work on nights and weekends when my partner is home, but in reality that is just trading one problem (not being with baby all day) for an even worse problem (trying to shove too much work into too few hours, having no family time, both partners feeling abandoned). I like working at home, but I couldn't do it without full time childcare.

Agree with PPs. But with your background, seriously consider doing childcare. Then your child will have a playmate and you get paid.

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Anonymous wrote:There are no online jobs that you can do from home while you actually care for your child.

There are no jobs at all (other than nanny share) that you can do from home while you actually care for your child.

+1. The only caveat that I can think of is if it is a job that can be done when your spouse comes home. Then you can effectively "sign out" as a parent and go to a different room and do your online job until late at night.

I have no idea if such a job exists, though.

And, really, just because your 5 month old may right now be napping a lot and content to sit still and play with a toy, trust me, it will only remain like this for another month or two, tops. Then you will be chasing the crawling baby everywhere. And when baby reaches 1? Forget about it.

PPs are right. I work at home in a technology field and have full-time childcare. You CANNOT work (at anything other than childcare) while caring for your baby.

Agree with daycare suggestion. the only people I know with "online" jobs are people with years of IT experience, who can do programming and coding or design work from their computers. A few of them do it with a small child at home but mostly they either put in very few hours per week or pay for daycare; in one instance, it is a couple both of whom work from home and they trade baby back and forth during the day. One of them is theoretically "fulltime" but he is a pretty remarkably talented employee that the company is unwilling to give up even though he's not pulling his prior weight.

Anonymous wrote:There are no online jobs that you can do from home while you actually care for your child.

There are no jobs at all (other than nanny share) that you can do from home while you actually care for your child.

I would try to do a nanny share with your baby - you care for one other baby for all or part of the day. Best of both worlds!

There are no online jobs that you can do from home while you actually care for your child.

LOL

You won't be able to earn any money that way and also have time with your baby.

With your teaching background your best bet would be to take in another infant for child care.

Hi, I was a Kindergarten Teacher(private school) who planned on going back to work when my son turned 5 months. Now, I don't want to miss any time with him until he can go to school, I need at least 2-3 yrs. Any recommendations for online jobs, I have my BA in Communication Studies too (currently pursuing my MBA online), Help please? I have found a few sites, but not sure of which to trust.