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Sole breadwinner, why can't your wife work at least part time too? You realize that your salary is going to get a lot more tight when you start having kids... regardless of what ANYONE defines middle class as. The math is all over this thread.
Sole breadwinner, why can't your wife work at least part time too? You realize that your salary is going to get a lot more tight when you start having kids... regardless of what ANYONE defines middle class as. The math is all over this thread.
somebody better tell my previous employers, as well as the employers of MILLIONS of others.....they were paying us way too munch money and letting us leave early every day! I feel so lucky!
What is it that you 3 don't understand? Obviously employers are not going to pay employees full time salaries and benefits for working part time. I find it hard to believe that SIB is really working part time and making a fully time salary and benefits. Unless he/she is a teacher. Which is possible.
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Now you're just getting ridiculous. Nine to five with additional overtime is part time? Not in the sane world.
9 to 5 is 8 hours. Subtract an hour for lunch. That leaves only 7 hours working. Assuming he worked Mon-Fri, that is a 35 hour workweek. In case you don't know math, 7 x 5 = 35. Full time is typically 40 hours a week. And, at an engineering firm in NYC, if you only work 40 hours a week, you get fired for "not working enough overtime".
The thing about salaried positions is that it's not always so strict or technical. My wife is a full time employee working 8-4 in NYC. Yes, that includes 1 hour for lunch. And she makes more than you so nothing about it is part time. Some do 8-4:30, providing a half hour for lunch. 9-5 is perfectly and acceptably full time.
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And, at an engineering firm in NYC, if you only work 40 hours a week, you get fired for "not working enough overtime".
You need to stop with broad statements like this. It is simply not true in every case. Or don't, if your only goal is to convince yourself you're already living the optimal life. It sure isn't working on anyone else if you haven't noticed.
It's one thing to settle and be ok with what you're comfortable with. It's another to make such wild exaggerations like you have in order to justify it to us.
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She has tried, unsuccessfully, to find a job.
Her working should be a mute point, you said " It is important that both spouses agree on that lifestyle. My wife and I very much agree that we value having me home in time for dinner most nights, and we both very much value proximity to extended family, even if it means having less material goods." .
So she doesn't work, you have less material goods and you have justification to bemoan you economics as you choose to stay employed on the island as the sole bread winner.
What is it that you 3 don't understand? Obviously employers are not going to pay employees full time salaries and benefits for working part time. I find it hard to believe that SIB is really working part time and making a fully time salary and benefits. Unless he/she is a teacher. Which is possible.
9 to 5 is 8 hours. Subtract an hour for lunch. That leaves only 7 hours working. Assuming he worked Mon-Fri, that is a 35 hour workweek. In case you don't know math, 7 x 5 = 35. Full time is typically 40 hours a week. And, at an engineering firm in NYC, if you only work 40 hours a week, you get fired for "not working enough overtime".
You must have the worst employer on the planet. Subtract and hour for lunch??
Her working should be a mute point, you said " It is important that both spouses agree on that lifestyle. My wife and I very much agree that we value having me home in time for dinner most nights, and we both very much value proximity to extended family, even if it means having less material goods." .
So she doesn't work, you have less material goods and you have justification to bemoan you economics as you choose to stay employed on the island as the sole bread winner.
If you are as happy in Virginia as you say you are, why don't you start posting in the Virginia forum, and leave us who chose to stay on Long Island alone. I think that deep down, you are lonely in Virginia, and you realize that you are a failure, and you are jealous of those of us who are still able to live on Long Island. That is why you won't leave us alone.
I have never heard of any employer, in any field, who pay for a lunch break. Lunch breaks are always unpaid, if they are offered at all.
My current employer and my former employer both allowed reasonable lunch breaks and did not require you to work extra time. You need to get out more and stop generalizing yet again.
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