I work full time as an Assocaite Teacher for IU20. I work with Mentally Handicaped kids. I love my job!!! I also have a little boy who is my life. He was the reason I took this job. See, I want to school to be a hair dresser, but after I got a job in a salon I relised that the only way to make good money was to work nights and week ends. But I was and am a single mother I couldn't do this....
So I got a knew job.. I jumped jobs a lot til I found this one. Its perfect for me. I have the week ends off and I work the same hours that the kids are in school. So I have off during the summer.
People don't understand why I would give up doing hair. I just tell them "I didnt." I still do hair, just not for a salon. And Later I can go back to a salon if I want to.
We do what is right for our kids.....
And I have NEVER regreted it....

you go girl, I just passed up a promotion at work, with more money, because it would mean more time away from home. I am a single dad with a 7 year old son. and I felt that the time I would miss with my son was more important than the extra money I would earn. there are more important things than money.
thanks

I work full-time as a teacher and have no other option but to do this. Luckily,I do enjoy my job. But there is no way that I will take on so much that I won't have quality time for my 2 boys. I have no ambitions in terms of becoming VP or Principal as this would not let me spend the time that I do with them. Money is not the most important thing. It would be nice not to have to worry about paying the bills but enjoying your children and being there for them when they need you, is at the top of the list. They grow up so quickly. You don't want to miss their childhood. You both lose out if you are not around.

Jennie

I am a single mother of a 4 year old boy. I was working at a software company making really decent money, because of the economy and how the company was handeling contracts there was a reduction in employees. While i was looking for another job, i found that to find a great job again i would have to move from a nice country setting to city. I want my son to grow up near family and such so I have started my own daycare which is a big cut in pay. but i am at home with my son when he is not in preschool and I am hoping to make ends meet with the income i get form watching other children in a safe environment.


I am hoping that it is a good decision for my son to stay around here. Maybe i will go back to school and get a business degree to go along with my computer degree..

I hope I am doing this right because I am a newbie here. My days and nights are so full it's not funny. I have a friend keep my daughter three nights a week so I can work full time as a CNA(certified nursing assistant) doing 12 hour shifts. I also attent college full-time, I only have 1 1/2 years left. And now that my daughter will be starting kindergarten next week I will be volunteering at her school 2 days a week. I don't have time to breath half the time. She only goes to her fathers house when it is convient for him, which isn't very often. So, I usually don't get any kind of break. But, when I do I really try to enjoy it. Many think that I am crazy for taking all this on at once but I am taking it all on so I will have a better job for both me and my daughter. This is our future and I will never regret not taking more time for myself these past 2 and future 2 years. I will have time in the future to do that.

Wow Dawn,

I certainly do admire you and wonder how you do it. Good for you! You most certainly are not crazy but are building a better future for yourself and your daughter. I continue to upgrade my qualifications and take courses. I am lucky though, I am able to take the "big ones" during the summer so that I have less juggling to do. (What are you studying?) Just make sure that you take good care of yourself along the way. Go well Dawn.

Jennie