Hmmm, thoughts

[callistra]

I just read my local paper, and there do indeed seem to be an awful lot of jobs in there. Employers also seem to be more willing to be flexible, and even encouraging SAHMs to come out and join the workforce. This week is the first time I have ever seen any one actually targeting SAHMs.

I really think, the next step, which would be truly awesome, would be a temp providing business that has a built in creche. Now that would be the coolest thing evahhhhh.

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[baby-elvis.livejournal.com]

if there were a creche i'd consider part-time work.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

So would I .....
:-)
I have been playing with the idea of working at Dominoes and stuff, just because they are begging for people and I like money! I also liked working.

I have to remind myself I that now is not a good time for this *grin*

[baby-elvis.livejournal.com]

who was advertising for sahms in particular?

[callistra.livejournal.com]

The most obvious with a title of "The Mothers Shift" was a cleaning company. They tend to be the fast food companies right now, and then there's a few other companies offering very flexible hours. The other community news paper (Comment? something) had lots of fast food places suggesting things like the 2am - 9am shift, or else 2 - 12 and things like that. If cricketk is right, then it's going to get more obvious, and more than just fast food and cleaning.

[fred-mouse.livejournal.com]

and I would have thought that 'the mothers shift' would be 9:30am to 2:30pm, especially with things like cleaning, that don't have to be done at a specific time. At this point, the ones to be targetting are the ones with kids at school, given Little Johnie's refusal to pay money for them to stay at home.

gods. I can't imagine working a night shift and then attempting to deal with a small child who may or may not have had a good night's sleep.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine it, but faced with the fact my asbestos roofed 1970s house is worth more than a quarter of a million (probably closer to a third of a million) dollars if we bought it new, and most houses these days cost a sh*tload more, I can see the need for it.

It's not the best, but it is manegable if you're a two parent deal. And even if not school, a creche or day care centre would be fine. Daddy can take the kids in on his way to work. And if you're putting them into daycare, no reason why they can't stay until lunch time. :-)

[fred-mouse.livejournal.com]

hmm, not so sure about the whole mortgage thing. There is a woman at work who has come back to work earlier than I got the impression she would like, because they are paying two mortgages (one is an investment property). I think that there are a lot of people out there not doing their prioritisation right.

As for the two parent, put 'em in daycare approach - if you are going to do that, you may as well have a job with sensible hours (I'm making the assumption that the jobs are out there, which I suspect that it is going to come to)

[callistra.livejournal.com]

I still think that if you have a problem with your mortgage and trying to stay home, then move to a cheaper house and stay at home.

But life's not like that any more. Average wages are still around to $30 - 40K mark, and even on $55K, a friend of ours could not get a loan for a house. The average house in perth is now $450,000. The house next to me is $350,000. On $55K, with a 30 year loan, Westpac would lend us $148K.

Where can you buy a home for a family for that? And on $55K, that's $1101 per month payments. That's a lot of money for a loan that won't even buy you a house any more.

And no, not necessarily. There are heaps of cases where daycare is profitable. The ones that cross our news screens are sensationalist bullshit, mostly people who have low paying jobs to begin with and then seem surprised they may as well keep the kids at home. You do need to evaluate this decision just like any other financial decision. If it truly was only $20 difference between working fulltime with daycare and just staying home with the kids, then there'd be a lot more people doing it.

[fred-mouse.livejournal.com]

I very much agree on the finding a way to stay home, if the only reason that you are working it to pay the mortgage (but then, I'll happily rant about the way that people feed their kids, and ways to cut the average food budget into little pieces). Mind you, if someone is working because of the benefits they get, then good on 'em.

As for childcare - I wasn't saying don't use daycare, I was saying that if a person were going to use daycare, they shouldn't do it for a shit night shift job, but for something that is going to not stuff up their body, and is going to give them some sense of satisfaction at the end of it. (mind you, when I was paying $500 a week in childcare, it did eat up a fair bit of my income)

[callistra.livejournal.com]

Jesus christ that's a lot of money! Was that for all three? Do you have to pay upfront and then get a rebate later? the government seems all very gung ho about day care at the moment. Do you think it's a good thing?

[fred-mouse.livejournal.com]

that was for two kids, full time. It was also the upfront fee, if I remember correctly. And yes, it's a lot of money. It may in fact have been less than that, now that I think about it - it was $50 a day when we started, but I think there was a discount for full time. Prices were higher for littler children, and then went up some time while we were there.

[splanky.livejournal.com]

Start it up. Could be the way to make your fortune. And you woudln't have to worry about childcare while you were doing it.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

Hell yeah.

Or you could always start selling Tupperware ;p

[splanky.livejournal.com]

She is already a reformed Tupperwhore :)

[callistra.livejournal.com]

:-)
Been there done that. I'll stick with my knickers thanks.
:-)