My work is, basically, to be a part time stay at home parent. Admittedly, there will be some deadshits who do fuck all all day, but looking after kids and running a household is hard work. I only do ten to eleven hours a day and it's tiring. Parents don't get to go home at the end if the day. Most parents I've worked for consider their paid work as a "break" from their home "work".
I was thinking when I first read this...a stay at home parent of a school age child still "works" with the kids from say, 6/7am til school tome, does shopping, cooking, housework, laundry, anything needed for school before the kids come home say 3:30/4 and then they "work" with them til bedtime - say 7/8. So call that two hours before school, minimum two hours during school hours and three hours after school...that's still 7hrs of work, and we haven't even factored in night times - either regular or when kids are sick.
Prior to school age...not only do most stay at home mothers go through carrying the little fuckers inside them for nine months (usually not a walk in the park, but some better than others), go through the pain of labour and recovery (possibly serious surgical recovery), then have to work 24/7 for five years...
So...five years is...1826 days, with one leap year. Say they get the equivalent of one day "off" a week for whatever reasons - someone else is doing all their work or whatever. That's 260 days - lets be generous and call it 300, just to make my point even stronger.
So they work 24/7 for 1526 days in five years. Let's even round down to 1500, whatever.
Let's be extra generous and say they only work...18hrs a day. Let's also pretend broken sleep doesn't adversely affect you.
18hrs for 1500 days...is...27000 hours. Or the equivalent of 540 50hour work weeks. Say someone works 50 weeks a year...to work that many hours, they would need to work 10.8 years. Stay at home parents have that squished into five. And I was being incredibly generous and under estimating the actual time they put in.
Almost eleven years of a heavy work week in a regular job, of being NEEDED constantly. People who aren't around kids don't understand how needy they are.
Sorry for the long post at you. I know you get all of this.
IIN to hate "stay at home moms"?
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My work is, basically, to be a part time stay at home parent. Admittedly, there will be some deadshits who do fuck all all day, but looking after kids and running a household is hard work. I only do ten to eleven hours a day and it's tiring. Parents don't get to go home at the end if the day. Most parents I've worked for consider their paid work as a "break" from their home "work".
I was thinking when I first read this...a stay at home parent of a school age child still "works" with the kids from say, 6/7am til school tome, does shopping, cooking, housework, laundry, anything needed for school before the kids come home say 3:30/4 and then they "work" with them til bedtime - say 7/8. So call that two hours before school, minimum two hours during school hours and three hours after school...that's still 7hrs of work, and we haven't even factored in night times - either regular or when kids are sick.
Prior to school age...not only do most stay at home mothers go through carrying the little fuckers inside them for nine months (usually not a walk in the park, but some better than others), go through the pain of labour and recovery (possibly serious surgical recovery), then have to work 24/7 for five years...
So...five years is...1826 days, with one leap year. Say they get the equivalent of one day "off" a week for whatever reasons - someone else is doing all their work or whatever. That's 260 days - lets be generous and call it 300, just to make my point even stronger.
So they work 24/7 for 1526 days in five years. Let's even round down to 1500, whatever.
Let's be extra generous and say they only work...18hrs a day. Let's also pretend broken sleep doesn't adversely affect you.
18hrs for 1500 days...is...27000 hours. Or the equivalent of 540 50hour work weeks. Say someone works 50 weeks a year...to work that many hours, they would need to work 10.8 years. Stay at home parents have that squished into five. And I was being incredibly generous and under estimating the actual time they put in.
Almost eleven years of a heavy work week in a regular job, of being NEEDED constantly. People who aren't around kids don't understand how needy they are.
Sorry for the long post at you. I know you get all of this.