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Moms View Message Board: General Discussion: Archive August 2004: What do you do?
To those moms that are not SAHMs. What kind of work do you do? And to those SAHMs, what did you do before you stayed home?
I was working at a daycare in the mornings and an instructor at an after school care center in the afternoons when I got pregnant with DD. I slowly quit my second job and worked full time at the daycare until August of last year. I got the room ready and made time for myself until November when Rylee was born and now I stay home with her.
I was a Preschool teacher for 3 and 4 year olds. Then when my son was born 3 1/2 years ago I became a full time SAHM.
I am a teacher. I've taught grades K-2, gifted (GR 3-5) and math support (gr 1-5). Next year I am teaching full time math support and am going back to school. I'm starting my sixth year degree in administration. I figure it will take me four years at one class a semester- I'm in no rush- my kids are young- but by then the oldest will be 11 and the youngest 6- so I will probably be ready for an assistant principalship by then. Who knows, maybe by the time they are done with high school, I'll go got principal- or even assistant superintendent (the one in charge of curriculum)!
I was an Office Manager for my BIL & before that I was a Motel Manager. I miss working & will most likely start again when the kids start school.
I worked more than full time (50+ hours) at a veterinary hospital as a receptionist and technician. It was a great, rewarding experience and such a fun job. I left when I was 4 months pregnant with DD because I was running around too much and ended up in the xray room when the emergency patients came in so it wasn't too safe. I still go back and visit because it was such a positive experience. But I believe that its my duty to stay home and raise our daughter, not anyone elses so thats what I do now. I surprised DH on our 1 yr. anniversary with a positive pregnancy test and each anniversary has been even greater, including last year when he came home from Iraq after being there almost 9 months, on our anniversary!
I teach early childhood music and movement classes for children birth-age 8. I teach about 10 hours a week. I am also the P.R. director for the program. Before children, I worked as a Therapeutic Recreation Specialist and dance teacher.
I have a teaching degree, but have decided to remain a substitute teacher. I'm lucky that my family does not depend on my income to survive, so working a few days a week is great. It's perfect for me...I get to be in the classroom, which I love, but I have very little job stress. Bell rings, I go home. No parents, grades, planning, etc. Plus, I have the same schedule as my kids, and summers off. I've been subbing at the same two schools (middle school and Jr. high) for seven years, so the teachers know me, and I feel like part of the staff.
I've had several different jobs, I was a telephone operator, I managed an alarm monitoring company, I managed a very large answering service, I've done in-home daycare (NEVER again), I've been a dispatcher for an interstate trucking company, I've done various secretarial/admin assistant type jobs but now I work just 2 days a week in preschool during the school year. Sometimes I sub as well in other grades. Basically for the same reasons as Happynerdmom.
I gradutated college 7 months pg. 6 months later I went to work as a special education teacher. I had k-4, children that were mostly included, but a few that were more severe than that. I taught for a year and then stayed home. When my thrid child turned 2 I took on a job at my church, called childcare, but in essence I had a small preschool program that I wrote, taught and hired teachers for. We averaged about 200 kids a week for different church activities. I loved that job, but we have moved and now I do nothing
I'm a full time SAHM. I actually was a full time SAHW (stay at home wife!) from the day we got married on!
I'm a full time office manager for a small surveying company. I'll have been there 25 years in January! I quit for a couple of years to try to be a SAHM, and I loved doing it, but there were 4 kids and not enough money, then my DH decided to move on, so back to work I went.
Wow, lots of teachers here! That's cool. Most of my friends are teachers, too.
I taught for ten years before kids (Pre-K, K and Gr. 3). Now I do lots of volunteer work at my DK's school and as a Child Passenger Safety Technician.
(Wow! Lots of teachers here!)
I just started working a cancer research laboratory. Before that I was a SAHM and worked part time evenings for a Pharmacuetical company. Prior to that I was in genetics research, a veterinary assistant, a tutor, in a quality control laboratory at a brewery, pet store clerk and a burger king employee at a thruway rest stop (where I met DH
Before I had my first ds I lead a "double life". I worked as a mortgage loan processor during the day (started there when I was 20 y/o). I went straight from that job to work as a modeling instructor from 6 pm to 9 pm. I did that until I was 24 y/o and was too pregnant to show anyone how to walk down a runway. Hilarious!
I started working full time when I was 18. I worked as a daycare provider for the After Schoolers group. The daycare field has a lot of turnover but if you apply yourself and you don't let the "little stuff" get you down it can be a decent career. I worked in several centers in different positions until I married, then I went back to college for two years but I couldn't decide on a major. So, I went back to working daycare and my husband and I began to plan our family, I had thought that when I had my baby, I would keep it in the nursery where I worked but my baby was born premature, so that stopped my career wheels. Then 3 years later I had another premie. Both of my children are fine today, vigorous and healthy but as premies, daycare was out of the question. Then, I homeschooled for a few years and taught preschool music and Spanish at a local homeschooling facility here. I also have volunteered for VBS and nursery at my Church. This year I will be homeschooling my four year old for her pre-kindegarten program and my 7 year old wants to go to public school so my husband and I have decided to let her go this year. So I guess I'll be joining the PTA and being a "classroom Mom" this year.......
I was in charge of the 3 y/o class as a KinderCare the summer after highschool. Eleven 3 y/o's by myself---it was horrible!! At Christmas every year I worked as a gift wrapper at a very posh jewelry store. Summers in college I was a gofer for the State of Alabama Personnel Department and loved it. Since graduating college I have worked as a speech pathologist in every setting and with every population imaginable--nursing homes, home health, rehab hospital, private practice, schools, etc. I was a SAHM briefly, but we lived in a small town with no ST's and I kept getting calls to work. I eventually started seeing a couple of clients at my home during naptime, but was still at home with my boys full-time. I am now a pediatric ST at a women's and children's hospital and I love it!. I work 2.5 days a week so we can have health and dental insurance and the rest of the time I get to be a mommy. The best of both worlds! I'm also back in school again.
P.S. Karen, it's never too late to go back to school
I teach preschool- three mornings a week. We start back in September. Here is a page if anyone would care to lookie- I am the Roll Tide fan:
I was working as a nurse, full-time, and continued to work full-time when my oldest was born. After about a year, I got to cut down to 4 days/week instead of 5 and worked that until we moved to Sheboygan.
Wow, we sure do have a lot of teachers here!
I was a SAHM for 6 years and I loved it but I went back to work at a school supply store (Pat!!) and I enjoy it most of the time. I only work 4 days a week (Thurs. is my day for classroom volunteering and team meetings with my ds's therapists) for 6 hour shifts while my dks are in school, so I get to be home with my dks most of the time. I am also going back to school to get my degree in Applied Behavior Analysis so that I can work with children with Autism. I stay busy but I'm satisfied on so many different levels this way.
When Alex was a little under 1 year old i went back to work after being off of work for about 3 or 4 years i went first to mcdonald's and things didn't work out there and then i went to Meijer where i currently am almost for 6 years now = ) i plan on taking on another job working in the school cafeteria this year i need to go get the application though first = )
I mostly stay home, but I wait tables 15-20 hours a week for extra money. I would love to stay home, but we simply can't afford it.
Before my kids came along, I worked full time as a Child Development Counsellor/Early Childhood Resource Teacher. I worked at 3 lab schools at a community college in Toronto. My job was to adapt preschool programs to include all kids and their special needs. I also worked in the home with the parents, and taught an advocacy class to the college students. Oh, and I worked with the student teachers in the lab schools, too.
I'm a SAHM now, but before my oldest was born I was a Speech Therapist in an elementary school.
I am a dog groomer 3 days a week. Ds goes to preschool 2 of those days and the other days I'm at home with him. I am also a full/part-time student, taking evening classes. In January I will transfer from city college to State College. Don't ask what my major is though! Currently I'm taking general ed and haven't yet chosen a definite major.
I am a SAHM now. After I graduated from college I went to work for a major telecommunications co. I managed a sales group in a call center. I loved my job and found it very fast paced and rewarding. I met my dh there and worked until I had my 1st ds. I was out on maternity leave with him, when dh got a promotion in another state. Since we had to move, I decided to stay home. Now that our ds's are getting bigger, my old boss keeps asking dh when I am coming back to work. I love being a SAHM and I don't plan on going back to work anytime soon. I am lucky that dh makes a good enough salary that I don't have to work.
I am a teacher as well. Since my children have come along, I mostly have worked PT or as a substitute. Last year I worked FT with a 35 minute commute each way. It was a bit of a struggle. I don't know what is in store for me this year. We'll wait and see.
I worked at a department store for a year, then I realized what I really wanted to do so I quit and started working at a daycare (working with children ages 2-3) I loved it!!! I had to quit though after a year because I got pregnant with my oldest dd and the children in that class were quite the little kickers. I did a little babysitting here and there but couldn't do it long because for some reason I am really sick when I am pregnant (like the whole time!) So I have been a stay at home mom since I was 3 months pregnant with my oldest dd. I am going to go to College when they start school (4 more years).
I am the Program Director for The state of Maine Family Planning Program for 2 counties. In a lot of states it is called Planned Parenthood but it is the same program. I do all the grant management and oversee all the staff and I also do the counseling piece for the clinic where my office is. I either love or hate my job depending on the day. I love seeing patients it's the admin stuff I don't care for.
Tink! Get out! Do you love Carson Dellosa or what? LOL.
Love it!!! Their stuff is always the best! Do you have their new D.J. Inkers line? I love the birthday bears. I helped my mom decorate her classroom today with all the Creative Teacher Press Hawaiian borders and their Sealife BB Aid. I love it sssoooo much! Sorry, everybody!
I worked for a title company before we were transfered to Okinawa. I pretty much was a SAHM for the 3 years we were there. When we got back and had orders to Pendleton, I worked for an escrow comapny and loved my job. The people I worked with were awsome. Then dh's orders changed and we had to come here. I worked at the commissary for a little while decorating cakes but now I am a consultant for a gourmet food company (see my profile) and a Key Volunteer which keeps me pretty busy with the up coming deployment.
WOW! There ARE a lot of teachers here!Cool!
Prior to my sons birth I worked as a manager at The Home Depot. I quit so I could be home with my children. At times we struggled but I am happy we made the choice.
Gosh, I can't remember! lol No, I guess I do.
Well I worked as a caseworker with children in Foster Care before I had any kids. I decided when ds was born I would rather work weekends and stay home during the week with him. So that was what I did. It was at a group home with with mentally ill adults. But after about 15 months I went back to work full time. With children who had been sexually abused. I continued to sub at the group home. I quit that after dd was born and went back to working weekends at the group home. I am now the weekday house manager at the group home. Its not a bad job compared to working in foster care and dk's that have been abused. That is very tuff work. The only thing I don't like now is I work second. It was nice when my dk's were young but now that they are starting to start school its hard. So I am hoping that I will get a day position that just became avaible at work. I unforunately have to work. Dh is a social worker also and they just don't make enough.
Well my story is all about cleaning that is what I do. I have worked for a couple of house cleaning companys, a restaurant, but the best cleaning job I have had, was the one I am at now, which is cleaning the largest log cabin in canada. When I first started the job 8 years ago, I was doing all the rental's, the building is rented out for everything imaginable, weddings, wrestling matches etc.. I also did the banking, and keeping up the grass, plants, etc.. The city took over the building I work in, so now, most of my job several other people do, so I only do the cleaning now, which I tell you it is really hard to let go, once you have been doing all the other stuff, for so many years. Right now I am contracting cleaning for the city, hoping to be put on payroll, as their are others in line for my job, I hope I get the postion since I have been their 7 years longer than any of the city staff, who would be up for my postion. If it does not work out, I will have a nervous break down and most likely not work at all. This has been going on for two years not knowing when or if I am going to have a job, so i am a bit stressed out.
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) and show up at strange places saying, "Hi! I'm from Head Office and I'm here to HELP!" (NOT always well-received). Anyway, my job is o.k. Mostly fulfilling and I have a lot of holidays. DH's career (telecom) was unstable for the past few years due to the dot-com meltdown, so I was glad to have this job, along with all the medical/dental benefits.