ChiChiKinks
03-19-2004, 10:29 PM
Since I became a mother 7 months ago, my whole life has changed. My child is my # one priority and I hate having to be away from her and send her to a daycare center everyday. We are paying $210 dollars a week for her daycare. In a 4 week month, we pay $840.00. I am not pleased with the way they handle the children at her daycare center so I have been looking to place her in an in home family day care.
The problem is that my time is no longer as flexible as my job requires it to be. I have to come in to the office at all odd hours of the nights and weekends when I am on call and even when I am not on call I have to come in to do server maintenance like today. I have to work until 5AM Saturday morning because we are doing server maintenance. I've discussed this with my manager several times but he says that there’s nothing he can do as those are my job requirements.
I've tried looking for another job for the past one month, but have gotten no calls due to the economy issues. Since I have had no luck with changing my duties at my present job or finding a new job, I am thinking about quitting my job and working for myself in my own business. I am thinking about becoming a license in home daycare provider. The average price per child in my area is like $150 per week and you are allowed to have up to 8 kids per one adult provider which would be around $1200 dollars a week or $4800 a month which is more than what I bring home (net) in a month at my present job. But apart from the money, this would allow me to stay at home with my daughter and take care of her while taking care of other children at my home. Plus we would be saving money on daycare costs as well as saving money on gas for my car which I have to fill up every 2 days for $20.00 because I have to make a 1 hour and 15 minutes commute.
Also, I have learned that the corporate America is not very family friendly so I know it will become more difficult if I wanted to have more children in the future, which I do. I’ve been an IT professional for the past 7 years and I don’t want to make the wrong decision because once I quite my job, I know it would be very hard to find another one in my present salary range. But of course, if I do decide to go ahead and do it, I’ll make sure that everything is done and ready to go before I actually quite my present job. So what do you think? My DH is a bit unsure about the idea.
The problem is that my time is no longer as flexible as my job requires it to be. I have to come in to the office at all odd hours of the nights and weekends when I am on call and even when I am not on call I have to come in to do server maintenance like today. I have to work until 5AM Saturday morning because we are doing server maintenance. I've discussed this with my manager several times but he says that there’s nothing he can do as those are my job requirements.
I've tried looking for another job for the past one month, but have gotten no calls due to the economy issues. Since I have had no luck with changing my duties at my present job or finding a new job, I am thinking about quitting my job and working for myself in my own business. I am thinking about becoming a license in home daycare provider. The average price per child in my area is like $150 per week and you are allowed to have up to 8 kids per one adult provider which would be around $1200 dollars a week or $4800 a month which is more than what I bring home (net) in a month at my present job. But apart from the money, this would allow me to stay at home with my daughter and take care of her while taking care of other children at my home. Plus we would be saving money on daycare costs as well as saving money on gas for my car which I have to fill up every 2 days for $20.00 because I have to make a 1 hour and 15 minutes commute.
Also, I have learned that the corporate America is not very family friendly so I know it will become more difficult if I wanted to have more children in the future, which I do. I’ve been an IT professional for the past 7 years and I don’t want to make the wrong decision because once I quite my job, I know it would be very hard to find another one in my present salary range. But of course, if I do decide to go ahead and do it, I’ll make sure that everything is done and ready to go before I actually quite my present job. So what do you think? My DH is a bit unsure about the idea.