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I’d need to earn 400% of my current salary just to break even on childcare for three kids.

Pretty much just what the title says. I earn about 14k per year and would need to be earning 57.5k just to cover the costs of term time childcare. How in the hell am I supposed to make it work without devoting my entire existence to work and never seeing my family? I'm having very mixed feelings about the whole career vs kids thing. On the one hand, I don't want to work my life away. On the other, I want some financial independence. On the other other hand, I find it difficult to deal with the feelings of failure over not being some kind of #girlboss superwoman. I feel like the decision is already made for me on financial grounds, but even if I did have the power to make a choice, any choice would be wrong. Just don't know how the hell these things are supposed to work…


Pretty much just what the title says. I earn about 14k per year and would need to be earning 57.5k just to cover the costs of term time childcare. How in the hell am I supposed to make it work without devoting my entire existence to work and never seeing my family?

I'm having very mixed feelings about the whole career vs kids thing. On the one hand, I don't want to work my life away. On the other, I want some financial independence. On the other other hand, I find it difficult to deal with the feelings of failure over not being some kind of #girlboss superwoman. I feel like the decision is already made for me on financial grounds, but even if I did have the power to make a choice, any choice would be wrong.

Just don't know how the hell these things are supposed to work

Edit: my husband earns plenty. We are not financially screwed, nor would we be. This post is specifically about the fact that I'd need to earn four times as much as I do now to justify working at all were we to have three children.

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