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Originally Posted by taco.vidal
Great for you to consider. I believe a large part of society finds it emasculating. What industry do you work in? Could be tough going back after paternity leave.
Is the wife the breadwinner in the house?
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I'm a computer programmer, and I plan to keep working doing contract work part time; my son's got no siblings and he's nearing school age so I don't mind him going to preschool or day-home (there's a great one near us) to get some socialization.
As an aside it's been amazing to see the changes since he's started going to day home; now he talks about his friends there and even wanted to help bake cupcakes to take to them! He did that and when he was giving to his friends my wife said he looked so proud
But yeah I agree it might be tough to get back into it, but that might be ok to, I can't be a programmer forever.
Thanks for all the rest of the input guys, it's encouraging and makes me feel better about it. It'll still be hard because I know myself and I can be too lazy sometimes taking the easy path (i.e. not baking the cupcakes in the above example and just buying them instead or just not doing it), but maybe this would help improve that as well.