Stay at home mom

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I work remotely part time. It's hard as hell, I work as much as I can which is when she's napping or happy playing independently, and then I work when my husband gets home. Not a lot of down time, but we need the money

Alorica, Continuum, Conduent. They’re all hiring

My husbands boss lets me babysit her kids and I take my baby with me, I used to be a stay at home mom tho but my husband works construction so thats why it worked

I see a lot of women looking for WFH jobs on here and am always surprised by it. It seems like they think they can care for the child and work at the same time and it’s not as easy as you’d think. As a wfh mom myself with many wfh mom friends, I can honestly say that neither I nor any of my other WFH mom friends are able to WFH without support of someone watching our kid so we can work whether that be dad, grandparents, friends, hiring a nanny, daycare.. most have had to do daycare. Including both my WFH mom friends who have a lot of family support, live next to their families who help when they can, and have six figure tech jobs have had to do daycare for financial reasons. You can’t do meetings or phone calls with a crying baby. You can’t type or focus while juggling a baby.

Even family and friends will and should charge and all do eventually as childcare is hard work. Most the good tech jobs are in big cities so even a cheap rate per child is $20 an hour for family or a nanny so is it even worth it? If you can WFH I’d recommend finding someone else who does and has an opposite schedule so you can swap childcare hours. Even WFH jobs usually have required hours that you’re needed to be available for so it’s not like it’s up to you and will revolve around your baby’s ever changing schedule and will hardly cover the cost of even affordable daycare. I’m sorry if this is discouraging but just wanted to be realistic since applying for jobs, training, and going through the hiring process are big time commitments themselves.

@Renee For awhile we were doing a nanny twice a week so I could attend meetings, and it's so expensive it defeats the purpose of working at all 😩

@Alexis we all do the best we can but childcare is PRICEY! And you can’t get back baby time. The snuggles are so wonderful.