Jobs on base or Home Day Care...

So the first blog was just the beginning of my rants....

My decision to work strictly on base if I get a job has been decided. I refuse to drive an hour to two hours every morning and night anymore when I work. I prefer to work on base because it's close and convenient. Especially if the kids are in a daycare or with a home provider. That decision was easy.

Now the question is finding the job on base that I can be happy doing. My first choice is the CDC ( Child Day Care Center)...I love kids, if you work full time you are able to get a spot for your kids. My boy is the one I'm most concerned about since my baby doll is in school now. I felt the need to stay home with him because I did it with my daughter for a while. I feel it was important for me to be here with them since the hubby gets deployed and travels an awful lot for work. They pay a decent starting wage and since my kids could be there with me then I wouldn't feel I was losing so much to daycare costs.

Other job options are more with accounting and office support. Some of them I think would be fun if I was to be paid enough to pay for daycare and still feel I was taking enough home after the fact. It's like why work for pennies and stress yourself out at the same time? I could just stay home and budget. In turn creating less stress for myself and my family. Which leads me to the other option.

Since there is such a shortage of home daycare providers on the list currently. When I mean shortage. I mean we had about six people on the list for all 3 bases that we are connected with. Maybe I could do something for others like provide that for other mom's such as myself who get so frustrated that there is such a shortage. I could stay home with my children. The money would be great. At the same time the stress levels would increase in taking care of someone else's children. Making sure everything is organized just perfectly and following the rules of the FCC. I feel I could stick by the rules just fine since I'm a cautious person to begin with. I could make my own hours so it could work out just fine. I know when I have worked night shifts at the spa I worked at finding care was difficult so maybe I could try and offer that as well. Instead of just the 7-5 hours. All of these things which are things to think about. What is better for my family and myself? I would not want to cause any more stress on them. The kids though I'm sure wouldn't mind having the other kids around. It's the hubby I worry about lol....and myself. I am a woman of many patience. This is what will be tested most of all.

I love life and the options we have. I feel sometimes like I am always starting over. Although sometimes the new starts are just where we need to be to get to where were going.

Working as a Military Spouse & Mom??

The fun part about being a military mom and spouse when trying to get a job is figure out daycare costs. Whether or not it pays to go to work. When you live in middle of nowhere and the wages when you move from place to place are generally low. For some reason I keep choosing jobs where I have to self promote myself for my yoga classes, or as an esthetician. Unfortunately when you don't have more than one source of income paying daycare to do all this can get expensive. I'm starting to come into a new reality. At least one that I hope is for everyone's best interest. I love what I do. I love what I have gone to school for. I went to school in Utah for Master Esthetics and I loved it. 1200 hours. The only other state that has more than that Alabama at 1500 hrs. I think now I probably should have gone to school for hair at the same time because the hour requirements for hair in utah was 2000 hours. I love hair. I just didn't want the responsibility of messing up someone else's mop. I do it to my own quite enough with my experimentation. I also went to school for Vinyasa yoga. Some of you may not know exactly what this yoga is. Most yoga is Vinyasa based. Vinyasa really is the breath synchronized movement. I teach a flow based class. Usually faster pace where you inhale and move and exhale you go to the next move...this class in general can burn from 445 calories on in an hour. Although I'm not sure how accurate that is when classes should be about 90 minutes on average. Most studios have classes 75 to 90 minutes long. I have since gone on to study Core Strength Yoga, Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga and Children's Yoga. I love teaching Yoga. This is definitely something I was meant to do. Yoga has changed my life. I hope to give it to others to help them achieve a little bit of what I have experienced. My biggest challenge/achievement was starting my children's yoga class on base. I was nervous to try and get it going. Fear of failing and having absolutely no one show up. The first time I tried to start it off base and two people signed up. So I decided to find a new location on base. I ended up with 5 families so I ended up with a huge class. I have never felt so good about doing something. I started to realize that teaching kids yoga was one of the ultimate feelings of satisfaction for me. Maybe it's a little selfish that I might like it more than them but it made me realize that I have a purpose in life. My job as a mother has brought me here.

Anyway so in my realization for now is that I must get a regular stable job. This makes me sad and stressed. I stress that I don't have enough coming in on my half. I also stress that I need to find a job to work around my teaching schedule. My son is almost in school so I would like to work more regularly or at least bring in more income regularly. I teach regular Vinyasa flow classes though and the love I have for teaching this group of people cannot be replaced by any job. This is the ultimate job. The only other option that I'm not totally opposed to is starting my own daycare at home here. When I look for daycare options that are home based because there is usually a waiting list at the CDC there is no one. Even for someone like me who merely needs hourly care. It is either too expensive for what I make for my hours that I'm gone. Or there is no one available even for hourly. The Air Force claims to care about the military family. I start to doubt this with daily trial and tribulations.

Yoga, skin care, helping people feel their best is what I love to do the most. As a Yogi I have to keep telling myself the truth. I have to realize that I can't do it all. Sometimes there are road blocks we must overcome. Not everything has to be all at once. I have to accept this and take life and everyday as it comes. I also need to realize that life will work out in it's own way. We make our own destiny.