I never wanted to work, when I was a girl. I wanted to marry and an husband to take care of me financially and me to take care of him for all the rest.
My mother was pressing me, tho: "you must have a job!! you must have money of your own!!" Of course, she knew life more than I did.

Fate (??) has it, I never married and that I always worked! Oh, of course I worked without really wanting to work, but I did it, and I still do.

Working is not easy, but is life. Work is like what you call 'yall'. It might not be worth the money, but it may be worth the people you meet, the work you do and the sense of being able to do things. All that adds up to a sense of self, a new and more complete sense of self.

A dearest friend of mine went to clean other people's houses, just to have money of her own and to get out of her own house. That's how we met and that's how she brought the sunshine of her lovely self into my house. She passed away some years ago but I'm very happy I had her in my life. She taught me a lot of things.

I understand that with your children and you h's work is impossible to have an office-like job. Invent your own, then! Propose to keep company to elderly when their family have to go to the store. Keep the records for a shop and do it at home. Do 10 different small jobs, who cares.

Take care of your children, of course, but let yourself breathe some new and fresh air, besides the one you only know too well.