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[quote=Anonymous]This isn't really a question but I've been desperately trying to get a job in my field since going back to school. I landed something this week, just a week after the initial interviews. I had 2 panel interviews (6 people total) and I was just as obviously showing from that week to now. I figured most/some would know that I was pregnant and I was right, I think 3 of them didn't realize.

I've spoken to HR to ensure the next steps and because I don't qualify for any legal protections the terms of my leave are up to the arrangement I make with the department and HR will just facilitate any necessary paper work. I know the leave will be unpaid (due end Jan) but I really plan to ask for the 12 weeks "standard" of FMLA.

This board has been SO helpful when I've felt down and hopeless about not having a good enough network and getting nothing after 70 applications so I am hoping for any moral support/suggestions you have.

My immediate supervisor (who is actually more a peer, just the chain of command has us in a funky hierarchy- university job so it kind of explains the wacky bureaucracy- is really supportive and I think is expecting the 12 week request) but I have no idea what the directors are thinking.

I plan to jump back in full time (hours are flexible which is great) after 12 weeks and really start to build something so I can actually have a career I like someday, not just my old dead-end legal job.

But I am scared about the "ask". I don't know what I am going to do if they come back with "we can give you 6 weeks". I'm a FTM, my family is a half day drive away, DH family is further. Parents aren't retired. The salary is paltry- so its not the $, its the opportunity to start something instead of what feels like taking myself out of the game permanently (I have a gap due to school and living internationally).
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