I only work 30 hours a week.

I am poor in money, but the alternative is to be poor in time. I get by.

I work equivalent to the time the kids are in school, 30 hours minus travel time, each week.

If I'd designed our daily world, it would run smoother than the Ikea cafeteria. As it stands, it’s designed to fail. I think it was designed for women to fail, possibly men too, but definitely women. I don’t know why school runs 8-2:30 which equates to 6.5 hours a day and only 4 on Fridays, totalling 30 hours a week.  The standard work week is 40 hours.

I only work 30 hours a week. This is rarely enough to cover my expenses.
On the other hand, I am getting by in ‘time’. Not wealthy, by any means, but doing just fine.

I pick my kids up from school and they play at the play ground.  I chat with their friends Mom and we all have a nice time. Plenty of time to go home, tidy up, make dinner and spend the evening with them. I guess I could go back to work then, during the few hours they are at home running, tumbling, building things in the living room. But I don’t, I just live amongst them while they do kid things in their home. I’m usually exhausted by the time they’re asleep and fall asleep soon after.

I only work 30 hours a week.

11 hours short for the 41 needed to get ahead. Get ahead from what?
Debt.

But I will spend my life longing for the debt of my children being small.
Is 11 hours a week away from my kids worth $320 more dollars?

Time is money. Money makes the world go round.  My mom is losing her memory and she often says those two things while shaking her head, words that have long since lost their meaning to her.

I’ve never understood it. The world would go round whether money came or went. Every day darkness comes, every morning light returns.  I guess that’s why I only work 30 hours a week.

I asked the computer how to stop being in debt.

It told me to work 11 more hours each week, 2.7 more hours each day. I told it I had children and someone needed to pick up the children from school and watch the children in the evening. It told me to complete surveys on my computer after they go to bed. I signed up to complete surveys on my computer after they were in bed and the website instantly leaked my phone number, allowing spam texts to spam me 10 times a day. Then I fell asleep. I regret asking the computer anything.  

Chat GPT, how many hours will I miss of my daughter being 8 if I work 11 hours more each week?

44 hours a month.
440 hours a school year.

How many hours will I miss of my daughters’ entire childhood?

3960

But the debt would be gone, and the RRSP would be grown.
Paid for by the debt of her years gone by.
No thank you.
I only work 30 hours a week.