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[quote=Anonymous]DCUM has always been a helpful sounding board as I approach different roads in my career.   Here goes the current crossroads:

Within the last year, I returned to work as a jr. level attorney at a state government agency after being home for 4+ years.   I was fortunate to be assigned to a really important issue and excelled at it (got the Governor's attention).   The current position is very flexible---flexible telework schedule whenever I want, 4pm end of day (even 3:30, if I skip lunch), civil service protections (i.e. job for life).   It has been great return to work gig.

Now, I am being offered a high-level government job.  Dramatically changes everything -- hours will go way up, responsibilities, gone are my civil service protections and telework days.

It's funny I find myself in this position again.  When I left work 4 years ago, I was escaping the "rat race"---I was tired of the long hours that my prior work required.  I joined civil service intentionally--to escape the pressures my prior jobs faced (and it was a long list of rat racing--from graduate school to top law school, to clerkship rat race to big law...yadda, yadda, I was tired and stayed home and it was lovely).

Anyone been faced with a similar situation?  Actively opted OUT of the rat race and then get invited back in....I am so tempted (and flattered)....but don't know if I will be unhappy again once inside the rat maze.

I know these are first-world problems....and please no trolls, I am leaning towards letting the opportunity go because I want to be a present mother.  That's the reason I left 4 years ago.  But damn, it's tempting (For someone who seeks validation through school/work).  Sigh. [/quote]

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