Before you became a SAHM, what did u do?

[Anila]

Before i was a Stay At Home Mum, i worked in child care, i am a fully qualified assistant, and was studying my diploma to become a group leader when i had #2, and decided to stop.
I also used to work from home as a artifical nail technician.

What did u do before house work and kids consumed u?

[kitten2b]

I was an accountant and cake decorator, now cake decorator and SAHM - was much easier to work fulltime, but not as rewarding.

[Jellyfish]

Travel. Finished highschool in 2005 and decided to spend the next few years travelling. Went to Europe, Asia and my backyard (Australian Roadtrip). DD was actually conceived the day I returned from Japan! I have since been thinking about going back to Uni once DD has started school but who knows, I have plenty of time to think about it and intend to be a SAHM at least until then.

[lilima]

I was a case mange. I used to case manage teams for people with Severe profound Acquired Brain Injuries. I was one of those nutters lobbying parliament to keep young people out of nursing homes. I must admit, i do miss it.

[~Gee_Whizzy~]

I was an Executive Assistant to the Managing Director of a wholesale distribution business. - I dont miss the long hours and demanding work, but i do miss my boss and the ppl i worked with

[nic]

Reception work while studying to be a Travel Consultant..

[Doing my best]

Export shipping.. I was a supervisor of 4 staff so it was pretty cruisy cause they did all the work. I just had to make sure we didn't take too much cargo. LOL!

Staying at home is much harder, but I wouldn't change it for anything.

[Just Me]

I was a behaviour management teacher (in Brisbane) - I worked as the liaison teacher at a school for students (mainly boys) who were struggling to cope with mainstream schooling due to behaviour difficulties. I did case managment mainly but worked in the classroom one day a week. My job involved lots of liaison with principals, psychologists, family and other professionals involved with our students. I ran parenting programs, assisted in reintegration of students to mainstream schooling, put together info for referrals and diagnosis and did a fair bit of counselling with each student.

I really really loved my job. As the behaviour could be quite physically violent at times, it became unsafe for me to work there while pg and we moved back to Townsville around the same time. I became an advisory visiting teacher for behaviour management and then gave it up to be a SAHM.

I have no idea what I want to do when it is time for me to go back to work. I think I am done teaching and while I love the behaviour management side of things, it can be stressful and very draining at times . . . I think I would like to try something completely different. Don't know what yet but I have a couple of years to figure it out

ETA: I agree, Heather - staying home is harder. I could hand my students back at 3.00pm every day and go home to have my own time and my own space. Somedays I really miss only having to be responsible for set hours every day but I love my kids and am very appreciative of being able to stay home and look after them full time. My DH is also very understanding that I don't have it easy just because I don't work anymore so that helps a lot.

[aussienic]

I worked in Child care as well. I was a semi qualified Group leader (was studying) I enjoyed i until I had kids. Then it all just got to much. The hours and all the kids and then coming home to be a mum I was just tired. So we decided it would be best if I became a SAHM for a few years. 9 years later still a SAHM.

[Olive]

i used to be a dental nurse! i had the best boss and i loved the clients, i miss that side of things but not the long hours!

[Dansta]

i was a Deli Assistant who has *just* finished my cert 3 in commercial cookery before DS was born (well 11 weeks before DS was born...) i dont think i'll be going back any time soon...

[Nai]

HR Manager here - I miss the work, don't miss the politics I am on the board at our childcare centre and will be taking over the staff/HR portfolio there later in the year.

[Lolli]

All round kids entertainer- fairy, clown, witch, mermaid, etc, plus a full time paid entertainer @ the children's hospital for the Starlight Foundation. Skill base includes juggling, unicycling, hand and stage magic, ballon animals, face painting and a reportoire of bad jokes.

I miss it desperatley

MaryDean- A book?? I'm impressed What was it about?

[Sequoia]

HR Manager here - I miss the work, don't miss the politics I am on the board at our childcare centre and will be taking over the staff/HR portfolio there later in the year.

And I was an HR Officer for a mining company but also handled the Community Relations aspect as well, working onsite. There were about 5 women and over 300 men, I enjoyed the CR work (handing over cheques to local community groups etc) and recruitment, but don't miss the patronising, misogynistic mindsets with that amount of testosterone in that particular workplace.

Moved, got married, and then worked at the local shire as the CEO's assistant before having DS.

DH and I own a small business so I help out there occasionally and will do so more once the kids are at school.

[kcrane]

I owned and ran a Pilates studio. Not actually due for another 8 weeks but closed the studio down, moved South and will open up again once I am ready. Am currently teaching 1 day a week for another practitioner and will continue while I feel up to it. My profession allows me to work my own hours which is handy.. full time for me is around 20hrs (right now I'm doing 5 hours), and I love what I do so I will keep my finger in the pie. But my main focus will be doing the SAHM thing for a while. For now I'm enjoying all this ME time!

[kcrane]

I owned and ran a Pilates studio. Not actually due for another 8 weeks but closed the studio down, moved South and will open up again once I am ready. Am currently teaching 1 day a week for another practitioner and will continue while I feel up to it. My profession allows me to work my own hours which is handy.. full time for me is around 25hrs (right now I'm doing 5 hours), and I love what I do so I will keep my finger in the pie. But my main focus will be doing the SAHM thing for a while. For now I'm enjoying all this ME time!

[diva det]

before the twins were born i had a music school and taught part time in a montessori school. I then went back to work when the twins were at kinder and then at school as a Director of Studies at an International School. I am still doing this role at the moment, but have put staff in place to do the hands on stuff so i can stay home and do all the SAHM stuff as well as make any work decisions in between midnite and dawn lol