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[quote=Anonymous]Solidarity, OP. I'm in the same boat after a 4 year gap (just one kid) and I feel the same way. I'm happy with my choices, happy to be going back, loved the last few years and also looking forward to the next phase.

I think people assume it's going to be really hard to re-enter the workforce or that something critical has been lost that will handicap us moving forward. But since I have little to no interest in returning to the kind of job I was doing pre-kids, and in fact left that job pretty happily and saw motherhood as an opportunity to move on from a career that wasn't that fulfilling and didn't offer a ton of work/life balance, I don't feel like I've lost anything.

I have my second interview for a very interesting product development job next week and am thrilled. I thought interviewing would be really stressful and I'd feel like a fraud but it's felt easy and I feel more confident than I ever used to. I don't know if I'll get this job but I feel confident I will get a job, and I also feel like I'm approaching it from a powerful position of knowing I don't have to take the first thing that comes along or accept a bad offer because we've been making it work on one income for this long -- we can wait a few more months until I find the right fit.[/quote]

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