Which takes more of your energy working or homeschooling?

[Michelle in AL]

For those who have worked recently or are working now, which takes more energy, working or homeschooling?

 

I'm about to apply for my masters next week to be a nurse practitioner. I need to do this for several reasons, but I wonder how my life will change. I won't begin working until the kids are in college, so I'll have no children, just hubby, but I'll still have to clean and shop. Hopefully, dh will share cooking.

 

Last weekend I was exhausted from just cleaning, grocery shopping, going to church and prepping for school this week. But I still have kids at home. It made me wonder if I'll really be able to handle working. Please don't throw stones if I sound spoiled. I do work now, but it's only 15 hrs/week and it's from home.

[LunaLee]

Working takes more physical energy, and homeschooling takes more of my mental energy- Unless it's back to school season and then working is more mental & physical.

[DawnM]

Working takes more energy for me, hands down. Not to mention that the house stuff is still here and needing to be tended to when I get home from work.

 

I have been a SAHM for 5 years now. Some days I really miss working.

 

Dawn

[NanceXToo]

Working took more energy for me than homeschooling does (although when I was a SAHM and my son was a toddler I might have said otherwise. He's a bit easier now that he's 5 lol).

[Tutor]

Sometimes the answer depends on the day for me, but generally homeschooling takes more work (especially now that high school is on the horizon) than work does for me. I look at my work as a break from my regular job of homeschooling... of course, I often take my work to the coffee shop with me, so that may color my perception a bit. :D