Stay at Home Dads Jobs
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Stay at Home Dads Jobs
Stay at Home Dads Jobs – The struggle
Single parenthood can change the most seasoned professional and causing them to struggle and become unbalance. I have a TOTAL new respect for single parents and stay at home dads.
My transition from Corporate America to a single parent put me in the same situation searching for a stay at home dads jobs.
I went from a career management of INC 500/Fortune 100 companies making 6 figures to a 46 years old, single parent of a 1 year old little girl, with minimal income for the first time in my life I was trying to figure how I was going to pull this off. There was no more funds because of the The Recession and being laid off. I have heard through past dicussions of the the struggling stay at home dads jobs. Now I am in the same vote except I am Dad.
Stay at Home Dads Jobs – The Situation
- Feeling like I need to be more available to my children because they seem to do better when they parents are around.
- I had to work around my daughter’s schedule and my son’s visiting schedule.
- I had very little support from friends or family because I live out-of-state. Trying to stay close to my 10 years son and my family are scatter all over the global.
- I am making one-third the paid I use to, which by itself opened a can a worms which we were not prepared to deal with.
- My old peers could not understand why I could not be available like before. Which was professionally crippling. As a Information Technology Professional, employers expect you to be available at any given time. Try doing that with a one year old.
- No days off. None! (If you are a single parent, you know what I am talking about.)
- Dealing with my our identity issues and having trouble settling into this new role.
- No time to yourself for personal growth and get your mind in check. (Yep, I am guy and I said it.)
- Oh and needing a stay at home dads jobs too as a Dad. To quote George Clooney character in the The Descendants: “I’m the back-up parent, the understudy,” explains George Clooney’s complacent family man and workaholic Hawaiian lawyer.
Stay at Home Dads Jobs – How do I remedy this issue?
- I have to move to a place which offers the support for single parents.
- I need to find a business I can work from home.
- I had to find something which is conducive to a single parents life.
- I had to re-establish my identity.
- I need to find the potential off making the money my family was accustom too.
Stay at Home Dads Jobs – I found several solutions which works for me. After many hours of research these are two of the six opportunities which I find perfect for me as a single parent.
- ZeekRewards – Takes me 5 mins a day
- Empower – This takes me 1 hour a day)
Stay at Home Dads Jobs