Working women almost certainly caused the credit crunch

ixwood

I doubt anyone has ever said "I really wish I'd worked more!" on their deathbed.

Blondehead, if you won the lottery, would you carry on working? I think yours was "the really daft statement".

margaretclare

There is an element of truth in what he is saying (although I disagree about the demeaning jobs etc), I have long said that in my parents' day, the mother was not expected to work but to stay at home and bring up the children, they had no pressure to go out to work.

SingleSue, I don't know how old you are and therefore I don't know when the time you describe as 'my parents' day' occurred.

I worked for most of my adult life, from leaving school at 16 in 1951 until my second husband and I both stopped working in 2002 when we were 67. The only time I didn't work was between November 1960 and June 1964 - childbearing - but I was back at work when younger daughter was 6 months old. I'd had postnatal depression and my consultant psychiatrist told me that I was 'far too intelligent just to stay at home'.

Maybe women were 'not expected to' go out to work, and there was a lot said against us, but nevertheless, most women did. I've known very few women in my lifetime who didn't.

ixwood

lynzpower wrote: »

At home doing what? I would have nothing to do aside from sit on here all day long, month in month out, really at home I hae nothing to do, the house is tidy, the dog is walked what now?

This sort of idea means that you could potentially have 50% off the adult population simply doing nothing at home- seems like a way to strip the rights and responsibilities of over 50% of the population? Regression aint the word...!

Are you serious? You'd rather give your precious time to someone else to make money from, than enjoy yourself and do whatever you please?

Generally I think not working, or early retirement would be the dream of most people.

I think the government conned woman into thinking they were missing out and being deprived of something, so they could rake in the extra taxes.

It's backfired now. Go and do the daily grind like the rest of us! *evil laugh*

lostinrates

I loved my work when I worked. But ..when I don't turn the computer on, I can fill a day at home easily. I mean..right now the house is 'clean' but I'm aware that I could be, for example, cleaning skirting boards, pruning the rosesthat we haven't got to yet...the list of what I could be doing right now is too long to stand!

I have been wondering about the maths of this for some time. I think everyone should have the right to work if they so wish but something is wrong when two income families need a top up with tax credits etc.

EDT: the demeaning stuff is rubbish. That goes almost with out saying. IMO. Both the jobs classed as demeaning and that doing anything worthwhile or needing doing is demeaning. I'd rather be 'demeaned'cleaning my house leaving me time to read and be challanged intellectually than be doing a 'normal' job and be stresed out for time and feeling understimulated. Of course neither is ideal for me...but ideal is rare.

SGE1

What an ABSOLUTE PILE OF UTTER W*NK.

andrina_nightshade

Wow... So, to help the economy I should drop out of uni, leave my job, and sit about the house while my father, and later my husband, support me, instead of pursuing my dream of becoming a doctor. Obviously I can make a more positive contribution to society by baking carrot cake and ironing than I ever could caring for the sick and dying.

Glad to know I've been wrong all these years...

(Tip for the journalist - satire is supposed to be funny)

SingleSue

margaretclare wrote: »

SingleSue, I don't know how old you are and therefore I don't know when the time you describe as 'my parents' day' occurred.

I worked for most of my adult life, from leaving school at 16 in 1951 until my second husband and I both stopped working in 2002 when we were 67. The only time I didn't work was between November 1960 and June 1964 - childbearing - but I was back at work when younger daughter was 6 months old. I'd had postnatal depression and my consultant psychiatrist told me that I was 'far too intelligent just to stay at home'.

Maybe women were 'not expected to' go out to work, and there was a lot said against us, but nevertheless, most women did. I've known very few women in my lifetime who didn't.

I am a fair bit younger than you, my parents are aged 66 and 68 and it was normal for my parents, their siblings and their friends for the mother to stay at home....it was the norm for me to see the housewife staying at home and the male working, in fact, when my aunt went back to work, it was seen as very eeek for her to do so.

I had the opposite experience to you, maybe it is down to area or something (although I have no idea where you are) but very few married mothers went to work when I was young, something which I found very weird as I reached my teenage years, for the life of me, I couldn't work out why they would want to stay at home!

I think we are alike though, I needed to go back to work after the children were born (in between the children as well) as I was going ever so slightly mad with boredom due to my brain not getting enough input and is why, even with quite heavy caring responsibilities (disabled children), I am desperate to be working again now..in the meantime, I am study, study, study to try to keep the grey stuff entertained.

ixwood

work for mental stimulation only seems a bit extreme. You could read, play chess, do puzzles, play games, learn new things! Now the t'internet is here, staying at home has never been so...er... stimulating.

SGE1

ixwood wrote: »

I doubt anyone has ever said "I really wish I'd worked more!" on their deathbed.

Blondehead, if you won the lottery, would you carry on working? I think yours was "the really daft statement".

Wow, it doesn't sound like much fun to be you.

Work is the place where you can fulfill ambitions, experience success and the self-worth that comes with it, stretch yourself, and contribute to a purpose that you care about. It's not about working more, so yes, probably not many people say they wish they'd worked more on their deathbed, but I bet some of them say, I wish I'd made more of an effort at work, been more ambitious, etc.

If I won the lottery, I'd definitely keep on working. I mostly enjoy what I do, I want to make a contribution to society, and I want to be (and feel) success.

I suggest you start looking for a more fulfilling job.

ixwood

No, it doesn't sound much fun to be you.

I suggest you look for a more fulfilling life.