10 Signs That I Need to Get A Job
This is not to say I don’t work. I work alright. I work day and night, weekends and holidays, with no pay cheque in sight. A bit like slave labour, but legal. It’s called Raising Children. Not to be left behind in these texting times, we even have acronyms, SAHM, SAHF, SAHP, or CEO when the mood strikes.
Lots of people have opinions about this job; but I’m not going there. Let’s just say I’m hanging them up – whatever they may be. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. Six years to be precise. But you know how the universe sometimes speaks to you? Well, now it’s screaming. Louder than the two-year old next door, which I didn’t think possible. It’s yelling at me by way of signs.
Here are one or ten signs that I need to get a job, depending on your attention span.
1. Garbage day has become freakishly important in my calendar, now ranking somewhere between Christmas and Labour Day. I know, it’s not a holiday, but it’s even better because it involves purging. And two men show up right at my door to help me do this – when else does this happen? Never, that’s when. (Note: those garbage bins are filled with stuff I’m sick of picking up. Bye bye.)
2. I’ve installed a water cooler in our house, and I find myself hanging around it, asking what my weekend plans are.
3. There is a glare on our television during the daytime that drives me insane when I’m trying to watch Orange is the New Black. While folding laundry, naturally.
4. I’m not done my bitching and complaining, not even close, but I’ve run out of people who will listen. Time for new material.
5. I used to have six hours of peace and quiet. Now I field about twenty texts from my children between 9 and 3. Mostly about their social calendars, which only serves to rub salt in my wounds that I have none by comparison. I was fun once.
6. Homicidal thoughts can’t be healthy. Purely mariticidal, I hasten to add.
7. Delivering their forgotten lunches and homework to school ignites me with rage that they have no respect for the work I do and the sacrifices I’ve made.
8. Complaints about my cooking fill me with rage that they have no respect for the work I do and the sacrifices I’ve made.
9. I’m developing anger issues.
10. The fact that I’m at number ten and haven’t even mentioned shoes yet, speaks volumes. Hello, mama needs a new pair of shoes? And then when I do indulge, that conversation. You know, the one where he says “Where are you going to where those? It’s not like you work.” Then I lose it. See number 6. Now you know the definition of mariticide.
I can’t find fulfillment at the bottom of a wine bottle. Trust me, I’ve tried. Time for plan A.
In your opinion, what is the absolute worst thing about being a stay at home parent? We’re venting here, so keep it negative.
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How funny! Love number 10 especially–good God the shoes! Hadn’t even thought about obsessive-compulsive responses to garbage day being a sign I needed work. Is that what that is? What about being bothered that my partner breathes too loudly?
Hugs from Ecuador,
Kathy
Things that bother me about my partner is a whole new list, and there would be more than 10! Thanks Kathy.