Hmmmm...this is interesting. I'm complicated.
Until four years ago, I worked full-time in the travel industry for airlines, tour companies and my last job as a regional sales manager for a major all-inclusive vacation resort chain in the Caribbean. I loved the job but spent a lot of time away from my family and traveling to and working in Jamaica, Turks & Caicos, Bahamas, Antigua and St. Lucia and it got harder and harder to be away from my family so much. In the fall of 2001 I had an accident in Jamaica and broke my neck, took time off for surgery and to recover and never went back to work full-time. My husband was getting busier and busier with his career and works long hours that are different every day. He is a full-time sports columnist for a newspaper, a member of a morning radio show which he gets up for at 4:30AM M-F and he does freelance TV commentary work and some freelance writing. He just completed a sports related book that will be released late summer or early fall. With all that we were at the point that it made more sense for me to be home full-time. We have four children ages 1, 5, 9 and 11 and have two foster children ages 15 and 17 and I work longer hours and I'm busier now with them than I ever was with any job I ever held. With school, homework, sports, activities, appointments, etc. I am on the go constantly.
I'd also been involved in cheerleading and dance all my life and was a Minnesota Vikings Cheerleader for eight years and coached the Minnesota Timberwolves Performance Team for three years. I now coach cheerleading at our high school which is a part-time year round job. These days, with spring tryouts, summer practices and summer camp, and cheerleaders for multiple sports in fall and winter sports seasons and competition cheerleading in the winter and early spring it never ends and I probably devote at least 10 hours a week to something cheerleading related. I have fun though and it helps keep me in shape.
I'd also had big horses all my life and after I broke my neck I was told I couldn't ride horses anymore and that was when I became interested in minis, got a couple, the whole family got involved - even my husband - and the entire family got involved in showing. It is an interest for the entire family, but because my husband works long hours and the kids have school and other activities, the daily horse care is one of my jobs too plus all the conditioning, training and show prep. We will probably be showing quite a few horses in driving and performance this year so I'm expecting so be spending several hours a day working with the horses. When school is out the kids will be more of a help but it still all comes back to me to organize and coordinate it all.