Spin Off of Old Jobs...

[Scout]

Why did you stop doing your old job to do daycare?

I was stuck with no prospects of any raise-EVER! and DS starting kindy soon so I wanted to be here to get him on the bus! Not to mention saving on gas and childcare!::

[Blackcat31]

I despised the government hoops we had to jump through and the unbelievable amount of waste or misuse of funding happening.

My own DS was the DCK everyone here "vents" about.

This house became available which I took with the above two things as a sign that it was time to go my own way.

[NeedaVaca]

I had an awesome job working for the states birth-3 early intervention program but they changed over into new hands and everything about my job changed including working from home

My DS has been in therapy since 1 1/2 and I knew I was holding him back from Kindy for a year and needed to work with him as much as possible so I quit and started daycare to be with him. He just started school on Tuesday

He's doing great and I know if he had been in daycare he wouldn't have had the attention he needed to make progress and I was able to work with him during nap time. I will continue with my daycare business for a while though, I can be here when my kids get home from school and I like doing it

[craftymissbeth]

I loved the actual work I was doing at the DMV, believe it or not but it was a temp job (for me.. they didn't know that ). I was basically just saving up for the daycare.

[Lyss]

We moved across the state and the area we moved to was drastically different in how property management companies work. Here there are only 2 property management firms (handle houses/condos/apartments but have an off site, central office) and they are both "family run" businesses so neither were hiring outside of family. The rest were "on-site" management jobs and no way in h3ll was I going to become a low paid on site apartment manager living in an apartment when I had a property manager license.

I did get a regional manager job with one of the huge companies that manages the on site apartment managers but they politics of it (giant corporation, over 25k employees nationwide) and all the hoops was ridiculous. Plus I was making 3-5 trips out of town a week

[Cradle2crayons]

I stopped working full time because my husband wanted to pursue working offshore out of state. Also because we were about to adopt our son and I needed to be home for them both. I only work my minimum to keep my RN license active. And I can do it when husband is home.

[jenn]

I knew I wanted to be home when I had children. However, I also knew that I would need to still bring in the majority of the income for our family. This was the best option for allowing me to be home, but yet still make a similar income to what I made teaching. In all honesty, I would rather be just a SAHM, but this is the next best thing I could do.

[e.j.]

I had always wanted to be home with my kids but couldn't afford to be s sahm when my son was born. He was in day care until he was 3 and unhappy the whole time. Once my dd was born, we decided we'd all be happier if I stayed home with them. Day care was a way for me to do that and still help pay the bills.

[daycarediva]

I was in college pursuing my associates to be a preschool teacher when I got pregnant (surprise!) with #4. Soon after he was born I realized that I was paying daycare all of my money, and I couldn't afford to return to school FT. So I started doing daycare (minimal children, 2 at a time unlicensed) while I went to school. It was the EXACT difference in income that I used to bring home after paying for daycare. Then a provider down the street closed and I had clients banging my door down and I knew then it was meant to be.

[coolconfidentme]

I retired from my career in 2009 & started flipping houses as a hobby & doing the rental thing. (I was still in my 40s.) I started watching my g'kids because my daughter couldn't find child care on 2nd shift. So I opened one that did. I really can't sit still & kids help out with that, .

[Josiegirl]

I was working at the hospital when I got pregnant with my first child, took my maternity leave and decided I could not leave my son with someone else. So I stayed home. My first client was one of my bosses from the hospital, her dc had some problems so she brought her 2 boys to me. After that word spread. But oh have I learned a lot since then. That was 32 years ago and the world of childcare has changed soooo much!

[Crazy8]

We were moving to a new house further from my job and I wanted to have another baby but knew I couldn't afford 2 in daycare. I had 2 friends in other states who ran home daycares and I found it was the only way I'd be able to have another baby and still make enough money.

[MarinaVanessa]

Nothing I ever did before ever felt like more than a job to receive a paycheck from. I always liked working with the people but the job was never more than just a job. I didn't love it, no matter what it was. Taking care of children was always fun for me and still is. It doesn't feel Luke a job. There are days where the children and I are building a fort out of cardboard boxes and painting it or decorating it when I sit back and think "Heck yeah, I get paid to do this". I can really say that family child care is my career and I love it.

[Sunchimes]

I had a business for 17 years. Because of some political shenanigans, our government contract was revoked and given to a big corporation. When I tried to protest, I learned that our original bid, the public records copy of the bid, and my copy (stored in my storage building) were all missing. So I couldn't prove that there was no revocation clause. I tried for months to find a job, but there is something about being self employed for 30 years that doesn't lend itself to finding a job. Daycare had been my fallback plan for decades, so I dusted it off and opened for business. Took a huge financial hit, but we eat and keep the air conditioner running, so we are happy.

[LK5kids]

I was commuting two hours a day...ick! I got remarried, we built a home and I moved.

We lost our grant two years ago and our hours were cut and my job of 14 yrs was on shaky ground.

My daughter needed childcare for my granddaughter She was going to a very crowded home child care..very sweet lady but she had 12 kids during the day (legally could have 8 and was regulated???) and 6 after school. There usually was 18 kids after school! The state was looking the other way I guess. This was the best option for the tiny town my daughter teaches in.

All my great programs were cut when we lost our grant and I was doing more social work type jobs...anger management with angry men :confused: child safety checks for kids in child protection when they were visiting their parents, parent education for at risk families and mainly at-risk teens. I missed working with young kids.

Returning to child care has always been my back up plan too!

This was not a good job change for me.....too isolating!!! Among other things!