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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Wow...do you mind if I ask what field you went into that you now make so much more money? Did you go back to school? (I realize this change happened quite a while ago, but still...)[/quote]

I did not go back to school. While I worked part-time I stagnated, both in terms of income and work, but that was okay because I made the choice to spend time with my children while they were young. However, I was bored to death in that job, and there was no opportunity to move up or do anything else, so when my younger child hit first grade I decided it was time to look for a new job and that I would probably have to go full-time if I wanted to move to a new employer. I found a new job and after working for that company for a few years they moved me into management and I moved up. I actually took a slight pay cut in terms of hourly pay when I moved from that part-time job to the full-time job but I thought there would be room to grow in the job and I was right.

I work hard and I'm competent, but there is no question that luck played a roll as well. If the company I was working for hadn't been growing, and if a couple of key people hadn't left, there would not have been the same room for me to move up even with the same work ethic and skills. That said, I think it is very important that I never dropped out of the work force entirely. I think that getting back in is much harder than moving from a part-time to a full-time position. It also helped that I was willing to take a small pay cut in my hourly rate to move to a position where I thought there would be more opportunities (although I gained benefits when I went from part-time to full-time so it wasn't really an actual pay cut if you take into account the cost of the benefits).

Sorry, I don't want to get any more specific about what I do because I would like to remain anonymous and I've already given a lot of details about my life. [/quote]

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