Comments on: Not just a long holiday http://www.uborka.nu/rise/2006/02/not-just-a-long-holiday/ Raising Bernard Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:54:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kylie http://www.uborka.nu/rise/2006/02/not-just-a-long-holiday/comment-page-1/#comment-315 Kylie Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:38:23 +0000 http://www.uborka.nu/rise/2006/02/not-just-a-long-holiday/#comment-315 <p>I hear you. I'm a contractor, so I'm basically unemployed and completely unpaid while I take 'maternity leave'. As an Australian, I can't even claim for any government help (not that that would be appealing anyway). It's a bit daunting to think that I won't have any funds coming in at all. And, in a stroke of good and bad timing, my husband (who is also a contractor) won't be working either. So he'll get to spend time getting to know the baby but we will be relying completely on savings.</p> <p>Like you, I find it's really hard to decide at the moment on what to do re amount of time to take off and childcare. It's nice to have so many options, but right now I don't know if I'll like motherhood enough to do it full-time, if our funds and maybe one wage will be enough to live on, if I'll want to give up my own financial independence (I suspect not), if the father and I will share the job responsibilities... and most of my friends who have had babies have pretty much always changed their minds about it after the baby is born. So we're just going to wing it for now, and look into it in more detail once the babe arrives. Like you say, 'shrug and hope'.</p> <p>And maybe start playing the lottery...</p> I hear you. I’m a contractor, so I’m basically unemployed and completely unpaid while I take ‘maternity leave’. As an Australian, I can’t even claim for any government help (not that that would be appealing anyway). It’s a bit daunting to think that I won’t have any funds coming in at all. And, in a stroke of good and bad timing, my husband (who is also a contractor) won’t be working either. So he’ll get to spend time getting to know the baby but we will be relying completely on savings.

Like you, I find it’s really hard to decide at the moment on what to do re amount of time to take off and childcare. It’s nice to have so many options, but right now I don’t know if I’ll like motherhood enough to do it full-time, if our funds and maybe one wage will be enough to live on, if I’ll want to give up my own financial independence (I suspect not), if the father and I will share the job responsibilities… and most of my friends who have had babies have pretty much always changed their minds about it after the baby is born. So we’re just going to wing it for now, and look into it in more detail once the babe arrives. Like you say, ‘shrug and hope’.

And maybe start playing the lottery…

]]> By: karen http://www.uborka.nu/rise/2006/02/not-just-a-long-holiday/comment-page-1/#comment-313 karen Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:28:11 +0000 http://www.uborka.nu/rise/2006/02/not-just-a-long-holiday/#comment-313 <p>Yes, we're in that position too. And despite the regular loss of elderly relatives, we still haven't inherited enough to retire on.</p> Yes, we’re in that position too. And despite the regular loss of elderly relatives, we still haven’t inherited enough to retire on.

]]> By: graybo http://www.uborka.nu/rise/2006/02/not-just-a-long-holiday/comment-page-1/#comment-311 graybo Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:43:59 +0000 http://www.uborka.nu/rise/2006/02/not-just-a-long-holiday/#comment-311 <p>We reached roughly the same conclusions. Although we keep hoping for a lottery win. But, as we don't play the lottery, that might be a vain hope.</p> We reached roughly the same conclusions. Although we keep hoping for a lottery win. But, as we don’t play the lottery, that might be a vain hope.

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