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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Poet who wrote (4960)	7/3/2001 4:36:51 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

For me, the most salient points of job difficulty would include: level of physical and mental stress, financial compensation, and likelihood of long-term reward. Just tossing these off the top of my head. For me, childrearing was off the meter in terms of mental stress. In terms of financial compensation, well, I'm not sure it makes a job more or less difficult. Unpleasant, yes. Difficult? Well, maybe more difficult to accept the problems that come with a job, but the job itself? I found child rearing amazingly stress-free, as I think did my wife. We were fortunate, or course, in not having to worry about financial stress since we both had good jobs, and we had my wife's in laws next door who thought that looking after grandchildren was a privilege, not a burden. And we had children who, for the most part, got along quite well together and were happy being left together under minimal oversight. We also live in a place where they could safely go out and play without too many worries--five fenced acres, the worst danger of course being that they would fall in the water and drown, but with three of them there was always one to run get a parent or grandparent quickly if need be, and the worst never came to pass. Aside from normal childhood injuries (like my son, age about 11, coming limping up to the house with blood streaming down his leg from a bicycle mishap saying "I think I need stitches" (he needed 63 as it turned out, but healed just fine) the closest call was when one of the girls got stuck climbing on the rocks above the beach and had to be rescued. No big deal -- the whole rock face is only 20 feet high, and she was about in the middle, so I just climbed up and helped her down. That's one of the times that our son stayed with her to calm her and the other daughter ran home to get help. So all in all, child rearing for our family was a shared family responsibility and pretty easy going most of the time. Far, far less stressful than my job! And as for likelihood of long time reward -- NOTHING beats raising children, IMO.