Cleaning vs. Childcare on a Small WAHM Budget

My youngest was an infant when I first started working from home, and ever since then I have thought, “If only I had some time to myself, I’d get so much more done.” Recently, as we’ve decided to make my writing more of a priority, we also decided that this might mean making some investment in childcare. (They’ve interrupted me 20 times while I was writing this first paragraph to see if I was…

Editor’s note: Students have been reading Anne Allison‘s Precarious Japan and are commenting how recent economic and social challenges in Japan are impacting their plans for their futures.

by Naho Onishi

My life plan is this: after graduation, I want to get a job that is related to traveling. I will work 2, 3 years and save money. Then I desire to get married by the time I am thirty and have a…