Taking care of a young child can be similarly grueling and I know a few people who have taken jobs that only paid about the same as the cost of daycare because that’s what they preferred to do with there time.
The issue isn’t only whether you find taking care of kids “grueling”. In comparing staying at home to working, don’t think only about the immediate balance of salary vs. day care, think about the situation in the future. What will be your salary in 15 years if you stay in the workforce and if you try to re-enter the workforce after a 15-year break? What will you work skills be?
The issue isn’t only whether you find taking care of kids “grueling”. In comparing staying at home to working, don’t think only about the immediate balance of salary vs. day care, think about the situation in the future. What will be your salary in 15 years if you stay in the workforce and if you try to re-enter the workforce after a 15-year break? What will you work skills be?
Agreed, though in both of the cases I’m thinking of the jobs weren’t ones where you build up long-term skills.