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You gals rock-seriously. I have not worked in like 17 years. I always worked prior to that. I first stopped when my second daughter was always getting sick in daycare. I had my 6 year old son and 16 month old in daycare and I felt like I was missing out but also there is only so many times you can call out of work with a sick kid before they just dont care anymore. And there is only so many times you can call out with a bipolar episode and crying before they think you are crazy. I had my last child when my son was 7 and older daughter was 3.5. I lost it after the baby came and ended up in the hospital. I was suicidal and cutting deeply and badly. I went through a year of agoraphobia and I applied for and have been on disability ever since.
Many of you know I am tossing some career ideas around now. I actually have an interview with my district for subbing. We always have a need for subs so its possible I could get a lot of work.
I feel like no one gives you working ladies enough props. You do not need to have children to deserve these props either. You work all kinds of hours and then come home to your second "job" of taking care of your home, your personal life, all those doc visits, errands, shopping. Its very much like having an unpaid, unappreciated second job.
I always compare myself to working ladies like I have no right to complain or have my own issues because I only deal with homelife-no boss or deadlines or office politics. I am getting better at not feeling that way. Many times I have had working women tell my my job is as hard as, even harder than just working which I disagree with. I am not fishing here or downplaying my importance but its one thing to be accountable to a partner or your kids and its another to be accountable to those things AND a boss, coworkers, company and be financially beholden because you need your job. And sometimes people downplay a working single woman with or without kids as if her life is peaches and cream because she has no kids or partner to deal with. We are all troopers and rockstars in my book.
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