Pam Hartley

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>From: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Digest Number 2962
>Date: Thu, Jan 30, 2003, 6:51 AM
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>> But finding work you love and figuring out how to make it work for the life
>> you want, isn't that a great life goal?
>>
>> Like unschooling, if you want something better, it's more helpful to listen
>> to people who know there are better options and have found them or are
>> working toward them than people who are willing to stop part way.
>>
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> I agree that it's a great goal to work towards but we all know how sometimes
> life gets in the way and we take a different path, maybe not what we've
> always dreamed of but sometimes we have to learn to be happy where we are at
> too, that's the sadder part of reality.

I think a great deal of the problem is that people don't look for
alternatives. Dad is bringing in whatever income he does -- fine if it's
work that he likes that is fulfilling to him and that he feels mostly-good
about. Bad if it's work that he drags himself to every day to sacrifice for
the rest of the family that gets to stay home and play.

The alternatives are out there: home business, telecommuting, mom and dad
both taking part-time jobs to share the load (once the kids are past the
toddler ages, maybe), sharing living expenses with another family, moving to
much cheaper housing or otherwise adopting a frugal lifestyle -- these are
all possibilities, some may fit in with a family's needs, some may not, and
there are many others.

If one member of our family had a bad-to-him job to go to 5 days out of 7,
while the rest of us lived in clover, I wouldn't feel good about that, nor
would I stop looking for the solution that would end up working for us all.

Pam