This has to be a troll post. There are tons of dual income working couples in white collar jobs in the DMV area. Everyone talked about this and childcare options before having kids. Yet here you supposedly are, two kids in and don’t know what to do. Such a fake, ling, superfluous post too. |
+1 DCUM troll fake material again. |
Pp again. I am trying to go back to work. I wrote earlier that I found it significantly more difficult when my oldest started elementary school. Now my youngest started elementary school and has the same activities that my oldest had when I stopped working except now my older kids have even more activities. I remember I knew this mom who was older than I was. She went to MIT and had a great career. She also had three kids and ended up as a SAHM. I vaguely remember wondering why she would give up a promising career to chauffeur her kids around and now here I am. Before people say I can outsource the driving, I will answer that. Some of the most quality time I have with my kids is driving them to sports and activities. This is when a lot of the talking happens. I get to know their friends and what is going on in the car. |
“The kids push back on bedtime”
Yeah, no kidding. Kris push back on wishy washy parents for decades. Grow up and parent. And give any full authority to as well. Rules are rules. Enforce them. |
Quit and go work for a quant fund. At least you’ll get paid. If you’re good. |
Classic dumb DCUM troll with the long convulsed follow up posts and selective Q&A every page. Lame. |
Of course I have had this conversation with my spouse hundreds of times. He is currently at the peak of his career while I am trying to re enter the workforce. He will likely make $3m this year and has other projects that he would potentially make millions. If he could work half as much and still earn $1m while I go back to work, that would be my best case scenario. Financially, Dh going from $3m+ to $1m so his wife could go back to work and earn 100-200k obviously doesn’t make financial sense. The more likely scenario will be that I will have to handle everything I do now and Dh continues to work and help out when he can when he is home. |
I think OP just made this post to underscore how intellectual, funny, and sexy she is and how sexy her husband finds her. |
Meant the more likely scenario is that I would still have to handle everything I do now after I go back to work and Dh will continue to work and only help out when he can when he is home.
Problem is this was hard enough when I had 2 kids. Now I have 3 kids with many more activities. |
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Is one of you in World Bank? Divorce rate is so high there, so many single Moms. That’s just what you sign up for. You are trying to be the exceptional. You just need to make some exceptional efforts, with no guarantee of success. Life is an adventure, isn’t it? |
You didn't even start the thread, but here you are, dominating it. You are revealing a lot about yourself here. And it's not good. |
you are....COMPLAINING about this? Oh christ. Just hire someone and go back to work. Seriously I can't understand how people who cannot figure out one iota of the issues in their relationship can make this much money. I have to go with family connections or inheritance. |
OP, I can empathize with your situation although our household income is a fraction of yours. I have a research degree in an underfunded field so working in my field is several multiples below DH’s current income. At one point when I was working, an employer offered him a salary increase that was equal to my total salary at the time but required a move, so I had to leave my job. I’ve never been able to get back into it full time because of that situation. It’s not a remote-friendly job. I don’t hear bragging in your post- just coping and juggling. I feel frustrated with that reality and wish almost daily that I had used my intelligence to study something more valued by American industry so that finding opportunities was not so limited. |
It's some sort of special myopia of the G&T kids that grew up thinking they were so special that they'd never have to deal with the issues of THEM. |