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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do all of the sick days, school holidays, etc. so I need to be in a flexible job.  I declined to pursue a manager role although honestly being a fed manager seems like it sucks anyways so I possibly would have made the same choice regardless.

The baby years were rough because I did all of the night time wake ups but I'm not sure how to quantify that impact on my work or not.

At the end of the day we have a nice house and enough money (me $190K + her $90K) that I guess it doesn't really matter at the end.  I think she is missing out that she doesn't really volunteer at the school, I really enjoy getting to see how my kids interact with their friends in that environment.[/quote]

I’m similar. SME Fed refusing to take management roles.

I have looked at startups and some corporate roles, but honestly the money and stability were never enough to enable DW to quit outright, so we’re not feasible with 3 kids and 2 working parents. Without kids I know we would have worked at a variety of startups and probably lived in at least 3 other parts of the country based on the job offers I’ve had but turned down because I was wary of the impact on the family and the money wasn’t high enough to grease those skids (obv if I’m making $1M  there would be options like two residences and flying back and forth, etc). [/quote]

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