Jennifer Lea writes for jlogged.com, and is co-owner of 
Validate Your Value
On the finance portion of the Today show this morning the adviser said that stay-at-home parents should “validate their value” by calculating their actual worth for the work they do at home. I found this calculator, and only counted my hours for childcare + house work because these would be two necessary services if I worked full time outside of the home. The rest I did not count because they would have to be done by me (or Aaron) regardless of who was working. Been there. Done that. Bought the t-shirt.
So, my salary would be 44K per year. Not to shabby.
I am planning on going back to school in the very near future in order to build up my skills so that I can adequately and efficiently run a business. It’s nice to see my projected value, but it’s even nicer to deposit a real live paycheck with my name on it.
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May 13th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Money…. the necessary evil. LOL. I had to go back to work today with my ankle wrapped up in an elastic bandage barely able to walk. The girls at the salon were calling me “hop-a-long”. Wouldn’t it be great to have true wealth so that we could pay our bills whether we “clock in” or not?
May 14th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
$44,000 a year? And yet our real world monetary take -home is still $0.
Back to school? Hurray for you. Running a business - of course you can.
But, you should ask for a raise.