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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Compound as in you get a raise, and frequently the raise is a COLA raise of N% of your previous year.
Yeah, I understand. What I meant is that my experience has been, you don't get any routine raises or COLAs at all; you maybe get a promotion after a few years, or you maybe quit and find another job -- so the lifelong trend is up, but it's nothing nice and predictable like annual increases.
Absolutely. Working with a new baby is expensive. I just get frustrated when people say that therefore it's a slam-dunk to stay home. Staying home with a new baby is also expensive.
Yep. And in our case, more expensive than working with a new baby.
Man, the childcare costs are freaking me out
That was the good thing about being my own boss. When the children were little we had an actual business location and the boys went to work with me until they went to pre-school. When they were nursing they went out on service calls with me. The boys went to all kinds of offices with me. When people want their computer system fixed they don't care if you have a kid strapped to your chest.
When they went to pre-school it was about $400 a month. Bobby had hearing and speech problems so he went to public pre-school for free. That was cool.
The last 7 years I have worked at home so I just deal with the insanity of trying to concentrate with kiddy interruptions.
One of the neighbor girls hit us up for cookies. I let the boys each get a box. I didn't have any.
Darn you all--now I'm craving Girl Scout cookies. The closest I'll be getting to them this year is via Edy's Thin Mint ice cream (yummmm), but I'll be missing out on the equally yummy lemon creams.
Damn. Now I want lemon cookies.
I'd better get something to eat before I go the grocery store on the way home, or I'll be spending way too much.
the money I earn takes us into a very flexible finacial life. Even with one child it would be worth me working.
OMG that sit-up picture is so cute!
Interesting discussion. Since my salary is publically available, and everyone's probably got some idea of what grad students are making anyway: $1,943 a month, nine months a year. My rent is a bit more than half that. No debt, unless you count the $100 or so that I'm usually carrying over on my credit card. I'm also making about $100 a month from tutoring when I can (there hasn't been much lately, but midterms will be coming up in a few weeks and I'll be able to get a bunch then), and my parents give me $200 a month, and sometimes another $40 or so from babysitting. Plus grading high school math competitions, which usually works out to about $400, two or three times a year.
Yeah, I understand. What I meant is that my experience has been, you don't get any routine raises or COLAs at all; you maybe get a promotion after a few years, or you maybe quit and find another job -- so the lifelong trend is up, but it's nothing nice and predictable like annual increases.
You're right. I think my brain is stuck back in the 1980s. It used to be like that. Really. At least for me.
Kinda hard to type with my NEW DOG sprawled out halfway on my lap. She's awfully awfully sweet. So far I have observed: Dogs are like cats except they like you all the time.