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Originally posted by syracusa,
Well...not, with the 9-5 job (let's make it more like 7-7, if we include the commute and the overtime put in for all the nasty deadlines) you've got no money worries;
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a brief aside - If your 9-5 takes you 2 hours each way to commute, you are living in the wrong city. Here, I commute over 25 miles each way, and it takes me barely 30 minutes (so i'm averaging just under 60 miles an hour, not bad considering the first 4 miles and last 2 miles are 30MPH zones).
At any rate, I think being a mother is a very hard job, I think being a father is a very hard job as well. I just read a study of juvenille criminal behavior that discovered that regardless of your criminal background, your children today have an 11% chance of being convicted of a crime in their life (without accounting for socioeconomic factors).
Hardest job in the world? Well, considering the responsibilities are very nearly permanent (unless you screw up and someone revokes your rights or the child dies) and exist 24 hours a day for the entire year, that's pretty difficult. The responsibilities of
raising a child are quite minimal, really just the responsibilities of keeping yourself alive with some extra food, clothing, and shelter for the small hangers-on around you. However, the responsibilities of
raising a child RIGHT are monumental. Even small deviations in parenting behavior can lead to serious problems for your child later in life.
I'll leave the ultimate issue of "hardest job in the world" for someone else to decide, but suffice it to say, any job that requires that much committment to be done properly is tough.