Stay at home mums with kids at school, why dont they get jobs??

[sleepinbeauty]

Just a bit hacked off with mums at school, they moan about having no life away from their kids/ not much money, yet they all seem to refuse to get jobs or careers!
why do some women just want to do sweet FA all day when their kids are at school? They seem content for their husbands to slog their guts out at work while they drink cups of tea and watch daytime tv! Dont get it! i think its called laziness??

Whilst I am off work and dp is working very hard at his own business, I do majority of chores in the home etc. But things will change when I go back to work in January.
I have the upmost respect for SAHM, perhaps op was suggesting that they are lucky and should not moan?? but hey we all have bad days, I am lucky I can have a years Mat leave when ALL my other Baby friends have gone back to work after 6 months, and yes I am the lucky one but I still have a moan every now and then. I even have a day off now cos dd goes to child minder once a week (to break her in for January when I go back to work) and I ride my horse and catch up with chores! did feel guilty at first but hey soon got over that

Ok besides teaching assistant/teacher what can we do that is school hours, but allows us to drop off at 9 and be there for pick up at 3pm and is term time only.

Perhaps these mums at the school agte are just waiting for the right job to come along.

I would like to go back to work, but not do want to do as I did previously as it doesn't fit in with a family life.

Mummy dear- Medical reps can have part time term time jobs if anyones interested

Are they term time ?

no i read a book for that
Hav read three this week

We are discussing suitable jobs on this thread

I am a SAHM. In January this year I became a Sales Leader for Avon recruiting new reps. I had to work around DD's nursery times or rely on my inlaws to have her for me. I am lucky that on the days that she went morning and afternoon, they would get her for lunch, as we lived a bit too far away for me to do it. When we moved to the new house at the end of March this stopped and I had to make sure that I could get back for lunch time and only asked the inlaws to do it on the odd occasion.

She started full time school (8.50am-3.20pm) on 7tyh September and i have told my Area Manager that I will "work", either canvassing for new reps or doing appointments Tuesday-Friday each week.

I don't drive do I have set myself a goal of doing 3 appointments eack week.(from w/c 11th sept). I have only managed to do 2 so far as I have had a couple cancel on me when I phoned to confirm the appointment times. Until 30th sept I have another 6 booked in. I have to try and make sure that I can get home for 3.20 as I don't want to rely to heavily on my MIL.

Being a Sales leader, I am self employed, and can choose when I work. I can therefore say that I WILL NOT work during the school holiday (unless inlaws agree to have DD for me)

My OH has agreed to let me give it a go until the year is up and see if it is making any money. I am hoping that it will as if it is not I will need to find an office job and, that will be difficult to find one that offers school hours in my line of work.

I'm learning Italian, I read a lot in 5 languages - novels and online newspapers. I'm learning tennis (although not progressing in leaps and bounds) and I have some kind of a social life and life of my own when dd is at school. If I went to work, I wouldn't have time for any of it and I bet my brain would chop down at least 2 gears.

I don't feel being a SAHM is making me sluggish and thick. Nothing at all is drawing me back into the workforce with a vengeance TBH. Good on anyone who enjoys and copes with motherhood and being employed. I'm glad I don't have to.

any book recommendations then?

I am currently working my way through Graham Greene because my DH says I read too much crap and I'm too immature to understand proper books

hang on this is off topic

loads jools will bump one

yes it is - what a good idea.

Dh loved Brighton Rock but they don't appeal to me I'm afraid.

If you wrote one I might be compelled to read it

We may be discussing suitable jobs on another thread but trying to get through to sleeping beauty that sometimes SAHM find it difficult to get a job to fit in with school /child care commitmments.

Still don't know what Sleeping Beauty does to make her life so fullfilling and us SAHM so lazy and boring

I think we need to stop justfying what we do with our time as SAHMs I really do,it's no-one else's business.

Another thing I like to do is sing along very loudly to CDs when no one is home to hear me. I would really miss that if I went to work

so do I - you;re just going round in circles as per

hahahahahahaha......

well some dragons just go off and have another baby when ds2 reaches school age

I was a SAHM for nearly 8 years - just gone back to work this week. So I'm going to sit in the middle for this one.

wondering though whether if I were in the UK I would have gone back to work by now. Probably.

Must jot that down fast for the next time I am whinging and groaning about living overseas. Imagine. I wouldn't have heard of topspin....

I don't think it IS very hard for intelligent women to find a suitable job, if you try to forward plan a little

Norty norty, bumping this one.

In answer to the OP: because they're not you, you silly bint.

Wouldn't want to appear lazy, Iota, would I?

Is morninpaper and sinB the same person??

jeez I'd rather be lazy than have dc3