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What's a Mom Worth..
Ok All you moms out there (and dad's too ) What's your worth?
Being a mom could be a 6-figure job Quote:
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ALL IN A WEEK'S WORK They do this every year around mother's day, and it's interesting stuff - nice to see the work that some moms put in is recognized... Gonna present your spouse with a bill for services? :D |
as a stay-at-home dad I expect to earn 11% more ;)
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Wow! I'm worth $154,310 annually. Of course, I have six kids (give or take one or two depending on my agency), two dogs, two foster kittens, and four adult cats... So I probably spend more time cleaning than average. ;) The calculator didn't allow for foster kids (whom I actually do get paid to keep) or homeschooling duties. I added our homeschool hours into the preschool teacher section, but it's really not the same...
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I'm worth about $86k per year - woohoo!
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This bullshit comes out all the time and its a joke really.
A mom is worth what you can get someone to do the job for if you want to talk about dollars, and guess what, nannies are cheap. Its the kinda thing they put out to make stay at home moms feel better for staying at home in an age when women were told they should get a job like men. There is a lot of value to a stay at home mother but its not monitary and this sort of thing trivializes it with an assinine dollar amount. My wife is a stay at home mom. Its the best thing for us right now and my son, but shes not working harder than she was when she had a job, and we do miss the pay check. Our priorities are different but the value of a mother isn't in dollars. |
I agree with Ustwo. Oh, geez. Now I've done it. Well, I could be in worse company. This crap gets trotted out every year around Mother's Day to make the "I am my kid's mom" crowd feel better about their choices.
Here is the real facts as I see them. If my "stay at home mom" wife doesn't feel like cooking dinner that day, or burns the rice, or doesn't do a thorough job of cleaning the bathroom, or doesn't fold all of the laundry, she gets a pass, maybe even a pat on the back because she had a bad day and just couldn't get everything done. If I had hired a person to do any of these same things, and they failed in this way, they would fired! Immediately! The idea of comparing a "stay at home" parent's worth to that of a paid employee is ridiculous since there is no penalty for failure. For every working mom or dad out there who gave up lucrative and rewarding careers to stay at home and raise their offspring, there have got to be 5-10 unemployable, useless wastes of space who ended up getting knocked up and have now ascended to the praiseworthy position of stay at home parent simply by not going to work. I'm sure that I am opening myself up to all sorts of hateful posting by the parents on here that are dedicated and working hard to raising their children. To them I say, I'm not talking about you. I just grow tired of seeing these ridiculous numbers thrown out year after year. |
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