Goat Day #26: Time Flies
15Hard to imagine it’s been 3 months already. Little man started daycare last week. He’s been an absolute angel. From the first week he’s been nothing but smiles. Easy to feed, easy to keep happy, and always in a good mood. Apples and oranges to the way his sister was.
By the way, daycare is fucking expensive. It’s almost worth it for mommy to stay home and watch the kids and not work, and still something we’re considering. There’s a ton of calculations that go into it, and tax stuff that I don’t fully know how it will be impacted. Daycare is temporary though, and it’s hard to leave work for any extended period of time and maintain your current knowledge, salary, benefits (PTO/401K) etc when you come back. Any changes probably won’t be made until the start of a new year anyways, once insurance deductibles reset. Hmmmmm, what to do?
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We didn’t have the same problem. My wife worked nights, me days. She somehow did both for several years.
After #3 was born she (everyone really) got laid off. I had gotten a good enough raise that she did not have to find another job.
@jst1ofknd My wife was in the same situation immediately after our 1st was born. Ended up staying home for a year instead of looking for a new job.
Makes that suggestion Obama made a few years back about free daycare much more appealing, eh?
@haydesigner Or college. Or healthcare.
Or a living wage to afford those in the alternative.
Vote for the future America you want for your children and all children. Elections matter.
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We practically bankrupt our students who don’t have much family $ or aid for college.
They graduate, or don’t, with huge $ stress, and then enter their worklives often crippled my debt, which impacts future opportunities, chances at relationships, chances for further training, ability to purchase a house, ability to pay the costs of having children, ability to start businesses, to do research, to chase ideas, etc.
China graduates how many more multiples (lots) of engineers, scientists, software and IT specialists, business-degreed types, linguists, medical personnel, social scientists, etc, than we do … so often not crippled by debt.
Not worshipping China here or anything. And we still have some advantages. But … Hmmm…
Gosh. I wonder how the numeric “highly trained personnel” ratios and allack of lifelong debt at the very start of working life play out long term, US vs China, in terms of creativity, business growth, science, global influence, patents, potential business, scientific, technical domination, and potential military domination.
Gosh. Maybe no need to wonder. Maybe an intelligent guess will be accurate enough.
Gosh.