Do You All Go Through Mixed Emotions About Your Job All Day?

[Soccermom]

I wake up in the morning dreading the doorbell, then spend the morning feeling both happy and completely frustrated. By lunch I am SO DONE with daycare and I start looking at the job bank online during naps. Afternoons are okay until about 4pm when I think - Why do I do this!?? By 5h30 once everyone is gone I think - Well I guess that wasn't that bad. By evening I think about how lucky I am to not have to commute to work like my DH and then by bedtime I am ready for a new day and we start those same emotions all over again.

On fridays when I get paid I think about how blessed I am to make so much money doing something from home but by tuesday I am praying for a way outta here!

Am I nuts or does anyone else go through this? If so, is it really worth it in the end?

[melilley]

I'm the same way and the feelings intensify when it's that time of the month..

[Soccermom]

I'm the same way and the feelings intensify when it's that time of the month..

I hear ya on that! There are days when I feel completely nuts LOL Even DH tells me I am all over the map about this job. He tells me to just appreciate the $ and the fact that I even have a job and focus on that all day. I try but OMG sometimes these kiddos just make me crazy!!

[Naptime yet?]

Yes yes & yes! Although I'm just breaking even, if that, so that adds to my craziness.

[SilverSabre25]

I quit at LEAST once a day. Earlier this week i didn't quit until almost 6 PM!!! Today I quit before 9 AM....

I have a like-hate relationship with this job, and am absolutely stuck doing it. Back in the fall I actually interviewed for and GOT a job out of the house...but they couldn't pay me enough to replace my daycare income so I had to turn it down. Some days i wonder if that was really the right choice...though it was a relief to know that I was capable of getting a job at a high-end, very nice daycare center. Gives me hope if daycare ever completely fails me.

But then I sometimes spend my entire evening rearranging the playroom or perparing some fun activty...and the time with my own babies is so precious that I can't really imagine doing anything else.

[Shell]

I wake up in the morning dreading the doorbell, then spend the morning feeling both happy and completely frustrated. By lunch I am SO DONE with daycare and I start looking at the job bank online during naps. Afternoons are okay until about 4pm when I think - Why do I do this!?? By 5h30 once everyone is gone I think - Well I guess that wasn't that bad. By evening I think about how lucky I am to not have to commute to work like my DH and then by bedtime I am ready for a new day and we start those same emotions all over again.

On fridays when I get paid I think about how blessed I am to make so much money doing something from home but by tuesday I am praying for a way outta here!

Am I nuts or does anyone else go through this? If so, is it really worth it in the end?

Could have written this myself! Also, the uncertainty of not having steady income (people come and go all the time) and no lunch break whatsoever are rough.

[sugar buzz]

I laughed out loud about the job searching. I've searched for jobs on my phone while waiting-out a tantrum, before. Winter is always an emotional roller coaster--especially THIS winter. I usually pop some Vitamin D and search for cheap vacation packages at nap time

[Tdhmom]

I'm the same way and the feelings intensify when it's that time of the month..

it is especially hard during this time!!! I am an emotional roller coaster and I think all the kids feed off of it and behave even worse. I have looked for jobs more times than I can count but have never applied. I still have 2 at home so it just doesn't work out financially for me to be outside of the home

I don't like change either so when I added a new set of twins (4 at the time) I thought it would be easy to adjust and the extra $ would be nice...WRONG! Once they're out if here I'm not adding to the group. Kids testing me all day long is enough to make me want to pull my hair out! 6 months of being tested every single day by this same set of twins has made this decision quite easy it isn't worth the extra $

[Second Home]

I feel this way off and on but especially when I start my tax paperwork .
For all that I have to put up with it never seems worth it .

[cheerfuldom]

I quit at LEAST once a day. Earlier this week i didn't quit until almost 6 PM!!! Today I quit before 9 AM....

I have a like-hate relationship with this job, and am absolutely stuck doing it. Back in the fall I actually interviewed for and GOT a job out of the house...but they couldn't pay me enough to replace my daycare income so I had to turn it down. Some days i wonder if that was really the right choice...though it was a relief to know that I was capable of getting a job at a high-end, very nice daycare center. Gives me hope if daycare ever completely fails me.

But then I sometimes spend my entire evening rearranging the playroom or perparing some fun activty...and the time with my own babies is so precious that I can't really imagine doing anything else.

i am so with you! I feel a lot of conflict about doing daycare versus working outside the home (which I by far would much rather do). I am making a huge sacrifice to be here for my kids but sometimes I wonder....does it even matter? will they even care? will it make a difference for them in their lives? Most of the time I am sure I am doing the right thing in the big picture but the daily tasks put doubt in my mind. Yesterday a daycare child chewed up a plastic plate and I think, I don't get paid enough to deal with crap like this LOL

[SunshineMama]

You aren't alone! I always fantasize about doing something different, but I will do daycare until my last baby is in Kindergarten. For me, it is more the parents than the kids, and I feel that in general, I have pretty good families. Nothing makes me more frustrated than dealing with people who just don't bother to think, and I have a lot of that going on. I also have frustrations dealing with kids who are not compatible with the way that I raise my kids. I hate it when people baby their kids and do everything for them, teach them to whine instead of using their words, and make excuses. People who don't get their kids enough rest, and people who don't even realize when their kids are sick.

Mom to 20 month old at pickup, "No, you cant have your paci. " (Whines). "You can have your paci if you say bye-bye." (Child...whines.) "Ok, fine, here you go."

Today, a 5 year old showed up in 10 degree weather with no coat.

The 3 year old dcg is whining for the ipad.

[originalkat]

:::::: This post cracked me up!! I also have a love-hate relationship. But I have come to terms with it as being the best of pay and balancing family life. Since we homeschool there are not many options that will work. Also, I do not want to work for someone else again!!

[BumbleBee]

I'm the same way and the feelings intensify when it's that time of the month..

Ditto.

[childcaremom]

I can relate to all of the above ::

I got rid of a few problem families/children and things are a lot better but I still have my moments of questioning why I am doing this.

My poor husband's eyes glaze over whenever I bring up anything daycare related

[cara041083]

YES YES AND YES! I have my own kids so I feel like it never stops! But, when they don't have school, or I get paid, or I get stuff done I think "man Im so glad I am home" but I have realized that I dread the kids coming over because they aren't "my kids". Don't get me wrong, I like all the kids I watch. But every parent thinks I do this for fun it seems so its alot more stressful then I thought it would be. So then I start look for jobs and I get interviews and then I remind my self how nice is to be home . Its a strange circle