Overhead a woman telling another woman her dream job is a Stay At Home Mom

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I was in an elevator at a hospital with two female nurses.
One nurse asked the other nurse if she could guess what her ‘dream job’ was….

The other nurse said:
Celebrity, musician, entertainer, social media influencer, athlete, business owner.… ?

The nurse says her dream job is a stay at home mom.

I wonder if this is something many women want considering all the problems and dysfunction at ANY job ?
 
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That’s been my wife’s job, plus she homeschooled all 4 of them. She tried going into the work force after our kids left the nest, but HATED it, so we adopted 3 more. Long story, but it’s the gift she was born with and she is good at it.

I’m fortunate to have been blessed with a career path that allows us to live that way. However, I have been jealous at times of the nicer cars people drive than us, but I got over that in time as my well adjusted, smart kids started to take over the world :)
 
Dave Hess said:
I was in an elevator at a hospital and with two female nurses.
One nurse asked the other nurse if she could guess what her ‘dream job’ was….

The other nurse said:
Celebrity, musician, entertainer, social media influencer, athlete, business owner.… ?

The nurse says her dream job is a stay at home mom.

I wonder if this is something many women want considering all the problems and dysfunction at ANY job ?
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It's rather normal to desire something which is completely opposite of what you have. We shouldn't make a value judgement on what this person wanted.
 
My wife stays at home and now all of my kids are in school this year. I mess with her about getting a job but that’s unlikely. She loves volunteering at the school and being flexible with kid activities. We are fortunate that she is able to do so and have quite a few friends with similar situations. It wouldn’t be a dream job for me.
 
DuckRyder said:
1) I'm not sure why this was post worthy, seems it would not be terribly uncommon.

2) I'm nearly positive asking a bunch of men (by vast majority anyway) what's common for women to think is not going to be the way to go.
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I think there's a lot of pressure on young women to have a professional or at least paraprofessional career.

It takes courage to say she would rather be a homemaker.
 
svtrit said:
That’s been my wife’s job, plus she homeschooled all 4 of them. She tried going into the work force after our kids left the nest, but HATED it, so we adopted 3 more. Long story, but it’s the gift she was born with and she is good at it.

I’m fortunate to have been blessed with a career path that allows us to live that way. However, I have been jealous at times of the nicer cars people drive than us, but I got over that in time as my well adjusted, smart kids started to take over the world :)
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I wish my wife would have taken me up on the offer to be a stay at home mom. I’m also fortunate enough to have a career that can afford the needed sacrifices in extras at home. My wife decided she “needed to do more” than be a stay at home mom. It wasn’t until we now have neighbors who made the choice to have the wife stay home that she’s beginning to understand. She’s just now beginning to realize she’s been programmed & lied to her entire life by school & media.


Social programming is a real thing. It’s actually amazing how deeply it impacts those targeted.
 
Egg_Head said:
Harrison Butker has made similar comments on this subject.
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Had to look him up. Football kicker. I don’t watch football or listen to anything athletes or celebrities say(on any topic outside of their specialty) so makes sense why it was a strange name. Not that I disagree with what he said in the single article I just read about him.
 
We couldn't afford to have one parent not working when we were raising kids (well, we could but would have been semi-poverty) but now we're both semi-retired. I am limited to $23,000 something per year by Social Security so I drive truck every other weekend to fill in where the full time guys are off. Pretty good gig as the only thing I disliked about trucking was the crazy hours.
 
Not sure how much I would want to read into this. I mean, if it was me and a friend instead, my dream job might be to retire. Win the lottery. If it was me and someone I didn’t know, I might be flippant and not truthful.

That said, I get the sentiment. Not surprised. Have to figure, basic human desires haven’t changed.
 
Egg_Head said:
Harrison Butker has made similar comments on this subject.
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And yet Butker's Mom is a medical physicist working at Emory University ATL for almost 4 decades. 'Based on that', seems she doesn't share her son's thoughts/ideas. My thoughts, different strokes for different folks. Carreer/life wise, wouldn't presume to tell women what they should or shouldn't desire or do.
 
There's a real sardonic angle to this.

Likely included in the answering nurse's response is that she wants a perfect home life modeled after some accumulation of images in her skull.

It can be just like a guy buying a sports car without knowing about maintenance, vehicle limitations and costs. All he may be thinking about is the TV commercial.
 
My wife has 10 years of higher education, including a doctoral degree, and she chose to be a stay-at-home mom. Before anyone asks, her wealthy parents happily paid for her education, so it wasn't any burden on us, and she regularly thanks me for her life and the ability to be a stay-at-home mom. She REALLY loves her life. My brother was a stay-at-home dad, and he REALLY loved his life (kids are grown and he's working now), but that would not be for me.
 
Dave Hess said:
I was in an elevator at a hospital with two female nurses.
One nurse asked the other nurse if she could guess what her ‘dream job’ was….

The other nurse said:
Celebrity, musician, entertainer, social media influencer, athlete, business owner.… ?

The nurse says her dream job is a stay at home mom.

I wonder if this is something many women want considering all the problems and dysfunction at ANY job ?
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sounds like my sister in-law, she married money but he's no dummy
 
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