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[quote=Anonymous]Lawyer mom here.  You are not underpaid.  If you want to make a lot more than what you make now, you will have to make major sacrifices.

I echo what others have said about the government.  If you want to work from home more than 2 days a week, then you shouldn't expect much higher than a GS-14.  I do have friends who are paid as GS-15s, but none of them work from home more than 1-2 days per week.

I work at a firm and work from home a couple of days a week and make significantly more than you do.  However, I earned this by staying at my firm for nearly 10 years and working incredibly hard and making partner.  Now I can work from home on many days, but I still go in at least three days a week.  It took a long time to get where I am; I don't know any women who started out working from home.  I can't imagine a woman getting hired at my firm if asking up-front to work from home.

Right now it sounds like you have a pretty sweet deal, even though I am sure you'd like to make more money.  I assume you can get raises over the years and perhaps even work yourself up to a GS-15 level.  If you really want to get paid the big bucks as a private lawyer, you are not going to do so working a whole lot from home, EXCEPT if you put in years of face time and made yourself indispensable prior to asking for the work from home benefit.  It sounds to me like you do not want to do this at the point in your life, which makes complete sense to me.  I think you should appreciate what you have.[/quote]

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