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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I am also in IT and I am not taking 1-2 years off with my babies because I'm terrified I won't be able to get back in after a break.  My feeling is that IT does lend itself to career gaps and my partner doesn't make enough to support us long-term (if I took time off we would largely be living on my savings).  So I'm sticking it out.  I negotiated six months leave for my second kid and I still am sad to send him to daycare.  If you would be happy coming back to the workforce in a different, potentially lower-paying job I think 1-2 years SAHM isn't an issue but I don't know if it would be possible to come back to something male-dominated that values freshness of training above long experience like tech.  If you were able to keep your training and certs up and learn new technologies while at home maybe it would be fine but I know for myself caring for babies/young children is all consuming and I don't want to be thinking about (and have no energy to think about) AWS in parallel.  So that wouldn't work for me.[/quote]

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