Message #3946

[lioness70]

My MIL watches the baby, so I don't have to pay any babysitter/day care costs.  Take-home averages around $900 a month (minus the gas for the car to get me there).



If finances didn't dictate otherwise, I would be home with the baby.  This money I make covers a lot of bills.  They're your basic household bills.  We were barely making it on one salary.  We don't have any credit-card debt.



I don't like all these office politics, power-posturing, and hidden agendas this group seems to have (when I was there only a month, someone got HR after me because I was wearing sneakers-I simply forgot to take them off).  I thought I would avoid this crap because I was only part-time.  WRONG.  I think there is some resentment about my position.  I think they also thought it was going to be a "dumping ground" for whatever these other admins don't want to do (hence the baby shower mess)-and it's coming out in these little games.



I wish I could quit.  But we need the money.  My only choice now is to stay out of these games and "fly under radar."  I don't have the energy to put into a VA business or home business because the baby is still small (he turned 1 in January).  I think I should be friendly and attend some of the office social events, but for the most part, take the money and RUN.