I found this website on
Pinterest and I've been pondering over this topic a lot lately. I have now been a SAHM for 21 months and I have enjoyed and hated it : ) Like any job, there are good days and bad days but overall I have a positive and grateful attitude about my situation. As much as I love staying at home there is a big part of me that desires a little more. I am finishing my MBA this December and have tarted receiving notifications about my student loans that will be coming due. It got me started thinking about why I went to school in the first place. Why did I go through all of this and take out all of these loans if I was just going to stay at home and have babies? I guess in my ideal/fantasy life I could stay at home and work from home for my own business, but I have not figured out how to make that happen just yet. So, I have considered going back to work; considered meaning keeping myself up at night dreaming about life as a working mom. I think of the good and the bad and I just can't wholeheartedly decide either way (lucky me that this is my dilemma i know) but I feel like I need to make a decision soon. I want to have more kids and if I'm going back to work I will need to postpone that for a little while. I don't want to start a job and get pregnant right away.
I read on a random site the other day about jobs for moms and how a SAHM that goes back to work is not just looking for money or busywork but purpose. We feel like we need to have a REALLY good reason to leave our child(ren) in daycare. I can totally relate! I feel like if I decide to go back it will have to be a great job that I actually look forward to doing or else I will become a guilt-ridden crazy person.
It's a big decision and I have to pick my poison soon.
Any advice??
