It's a random Tuesday in October, and your kids are home again. A national holiday? Nope. A snow day. Not even a speck of frost on the ground. It's Professional Development Day or Parent-Teacher Conference Half Day or one of the 15 other noninstructional days that appear in the school calendar like little landmines for anyone with a full-time job.
I've spent the last year working a full-time corporate job in Human Resources for a Fortune 500 company while caring for my one year old son simultaneously. No sitter, no help. We can't afford daycare, and this is the only way it's been possible for me to remain the primary breadwinner because my husband works outside the house and we don't have family nearby.
He loves spending time with his children before and after school, which can sometimes mean logging on a couple of minutes late and making up that time later. The New Hampshire couple is among the 67% of US families with both parents working full time. Business Insider spoke with nearly a dozen working millennial coupleswho are also trying to minimize hired help at a time when daycare costs are outpacing overall inflation.
