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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your first mistake was taking the job without negotiating leave.

Now you have no leverage. If you ask for 12 and they come back with 6 or 8, ask for 10. If they are firm then you don't have a choice. That said, 12 weeks is a very long time even for a FTM. By 10 weeks I was more than ready to go back to work.[/quote]

Thanks for this- it kind of happened really quickly and I had been unemployed and looking for about 7 months so I just jumped and was attending a conference meeting the next day!

Maybe for others reading this though- anyone  care to elaborate on exactly how a person might phrase the leave negotiation? Say you get the "we would like to hire you" call and they tell you the offer letter is being sent to your email. Do you tell them on the phone? Wait until the letter is in your inbox?

Just tips on HOW to do this might help others who are reading.

I've decided to just get down to doing a good job and then not lose sleep about any future hypothetical decisions until I am faced with them- we will have to talk about it in the next month anyway. Its just odd for us- DH and I grew up in really humble kind of households, the concept of having to choose to keep a job, etc based on factors other than necessity and money are foreign to us[/quote]

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