Women Quitting or Taking Leave of Absence to Manage Kids' College Applications?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't visit a single school when I was applying, and when my sister started college, my parents put her on a plane to Boston (from the middle-of-nowhere-Montana) by herself. They never visited her and flew her home for Christmas *once*.College students these days are so helpless!

and this is a good thing?

[Anonymous]

agree with pp. are we somehow compelled to replicate our bad expereinces for our children? our parents probably spanked us too but that doesn't mean I think that means it's approriate behavior for my children.

I visited some colleges but not the one I ultimately attended. But the visits to a range of schools helped me focus on what I liked and didn't like. Why rob our children of that experience unless you really can't afford it.

[Anonymous]

"Can't understand giving up that kind of money (not that you're the one who gave up the million dollars) for such little benefit. "

Bragging rights, what else?

[Anonymous]

Live and let live pp. Live your own life...not someone else's.

[Anonymous]

There was this woman in my law school class who was smart but made clear that she had no interest in making a career of the law. Now she is at home with two kids and I'm boning her husband during our late nights at work.

[Anonymous]

That's mean pp.

[Anonymous]

Maybe it's mean. But I suspect the poster who says she gave up $1M was just a troll - otherwise why throw that out there on a thread that's on the subject of taking LOA, not on the subject of giving up your job entirely to be a SAHM?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe it's mean. But I suspect the poster who says she gave up $1M was just a troll - otherwise why throw that out there on a thread that's on the subject of taking LOA, not on the subject of giving up your job entirely to be a SAHM?

Because she was responding to a PP who bragged about having a TV in her office as an inducement to working outside the home. That's why.

[Anonymous]

I'm the one who wrote about having a tv in the office to lighten the mood. Certainly, someone was trolling who said they would give up a $1M job. Probably ten women in the Greater DC area even make that much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the one who wrote about having a tv in the office to lighten the mood. Certainly, someone was trolling who said they would give up a $1M job. Probably ten women in the Greater DC area even make that much.

Actually, that's a dramatic understatement. See if I can find data.

[Anonymous]

Yeah - docs in this area make a ton of money. Surgeons can pull in over a million a year easily.

[Anonymous]

A partner in a big law firm easily makes at least $1 million a year.

[Anonymous]

i don't know about easily, but certainly within reason that there are at least a few women making that at the top ten firms.

[Anonymous]

There still are only a very select few women who earn over $1M a year.

[Anonymous]

right, but its more than ten.