Do I HAVE TO go to work?

[judecorp]

I just plain don't feel like going to work today. It's been a struggle to get up all week. I must have the post-holiday blahs or something. That's kind of silly, since I worked throughout the holidays, but I guess I /did/ have two four-day weeks in a row. (And one ended up being a three-day week due to being sick.) At the same time, though, I have (at least) a four-day week this week because I have to report to jury duty tomorrow. And if I don't get picked for a jury, I get to just go home and enjoy my day off! (Of course this means that I have to work all day Friday, when I usually try to leave by 2:00.)

Sometimes I think that if I had a job I loved, I wouldn't get that "oh please don't make me go to work" feeling after a couple of months. But I think the /real/ truth is that I really just don't want to work. Ever. I just want someone to send me checks on a regular basis while I sit at home in my pajamas.

I would totally enjoy being a stay-at-home partner and taking care of everything around the house if I knew it was financially feasible. Whenever I've been unemployed I've always had the stress of "dear gods, I don't have a job yet" but if my staying home was part of the Grand Plan, I could enjoy my freedom and control-freak-ness in peace! And then we could fill the house up with bay bays!

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[rebasayre.livejournal.com]

i cannot go to work today
said little judecorp with dismay
i have the measles and the mumps, a gash a rash and purple bumps.

no, sounds like you are doing pretty horribly. i'm sure work will understand when you tell them the above. ;)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, unfortunately taking sick days (especially when I'm not really sick!) kills my productivity. And my productivity is already in the toilet because of the bad two weeks I had and because I have to go to Jury Duty tomorrow. However, if I don't get picked for a jury, I think I get to leave at noon... and I don't have to go to work! :)

[thatpatti.livejournal.com]

But I think the /real/ truth is that I really just don't want to work. Ever. I just want someone to send me checks on a regular basis while I sit at home in my pajamas.

me too! being a stay at home mom is the closest i've found, although it's missing that lack of work and oh - the money part. but i do get to stay in my pajamas all day if i want! :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

See, I'd really like nothing more than for us to be able to afford for one of us (read: me) to be a stay-at-home parent. Unfortunately, with our less-than-lucrative careers and the huge student loan debt, I don't see that ever happening.

However, maybe some day I can do some childcare in my home. Then I came make some money AND be a stay-at-home parent!

full disclosure and all

[jost.livejournal.com]

I would so give you checks to hang around my place in your pajamas. Of course, there is a cavaet to this plan: The sexxing up part....

Re: full disclosure and all

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

But then Jen would beat us both up. And you don't want that.

[hopemcg.livejournal.com]

Some days things are ok, but today job=hate. Stay away! stay away I tell you!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah well, we're totally not going back to Ohio any time soon. Not as long as we can get for-real married here, anyway.

Hang in there!

[hopemcg.livejournal.com]

*sniff* I didn't mean Ohio. I just meant work. Ohio="wet but good"

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Aaah. Well, I don't really want to ever go back to work, either.

(But I thought you meant, you know, work with you. But you and Meggie should move to Western Mass with us, man!)

[juliann.livejournal.com]

Staying at home all the time can suck too.

And anyway, if you were a stay at home mom, wouldn't you be expected to, ya know, COOK? :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Hey now, I cooked! You know, that one time.

[cranapril.livejournal.com]

I fully admit to driving my kid to school in my jammies... and picking him up a few times while still wearing them.

I nap when my toddler naps, which is about two hours every couple of days.

I'm stuck with laundry, dishes, and a spouse who wonders why I can't get the kitchen counter cleaned off during the course of the day.

And I totally miss getting to talk to grown-ups... having to daytime TV sucks rocks... and when I do manage to start a project, I'm interrupted by a pupy who needs to go out.

You can stay home, but you can't replace the friends you'd have in an adult working environment. I have to settle for smiling and chatting with the librarian, or the bank teller (who know me because my kids are so outgoing).

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I suppose there is a /little/ interaction with adult coworkers that a job provides. However, since none of my coworkers are in the office more than, say, an hour a day (and never all at the same time, we're all out doing home visits) that's not terribly likely at my job. And I /do/ talk to adults as part of my work... but it's about their kids, so that sort of defeats the purpose. :)

But yeah, I see what you mean. There's definitely a little bit of a grass-is-greener thing going on... but I still really want to be a stay-at-home parent.

[anitsirk.livejournal.com]

i LOVE being a stay-at-home mama. serously, when you have fill up the house with babies, fuck finances & do what you can to stay home. chris and i could be making lots of $$$ if i went back to work, but we'd be paying half of it out for childcare, and i'd feel guilty every day.
staying at home isn't always the most intellectually stimulating thing, but i am the one who gets to make A-belle laugh during the day and I am the one who taught Hannah how to read.

and a lot of the time, i take a shower & put on a clean pair of sweatpants... :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I really hope that someday we have enough $$$$ to be able to pull it off. I know that for most people half of the second income goes to child care... but I honestly don't know if we'll ever be able to live without that second half. Then again, I don't know if we'll ever be able to afford to get a baby. Sad sad. :(

[serenity-coach7.livejournal.com]

I TOTALLY understand the at Home piece. Even though I got bored out of my skull being out, I had plenty of time for self care, the cleanest house I have ever seen, time for lunch with friends and if needed eventually children. I love the idea of being able to wake up in the AM and say.. Hmmm what do I need to get done today (for me, and my family VS. A job, bills, and other pointless crap)

PS. You might want creme for the gash, rash and purple bumps =)
**Hugs**

[folkyboy.livejournal.com]

welcome to being an adult :(

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[carina-s.livejournal.com]

I do not want to go to work, too.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Let's play hooky!