Reply to It just sucks - not even offered internship

Forum Index » Jobs and Careers

Reply to "It just sucks - not even offered internship - (sigh)"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for all you working mothers: how do you know there is a gap because of childcare? How do you know what the gap was for?
Certainly you can't ask. Are you assuming?

1. What if they were sick with cancer and then recovered?
2. Cared for 2 elderly parents with multiple medical issues, including schizophrenia?
3. Cared for a severely disabled child at the end of their life (Krebbs disease for example)?

These are 3 real life examples from my family and social group where women took years off and then returned to the workforce.
Are these acceptable?[/quote]

Usually people who have taken time off for the preceding tend to state it in an interview and/or cover letter. I'm not suggesting they go into every medical detail, but they let it be known that something serious was going on that required their full time attention; they don't make excuses for it. In contrast, many SAHMs show how "busy" and "relevant" they still were by taking about their PTA and HOA experience.[/quote]

So raising your children is not something serious? How sad that we have gone so far away from having strong family values and put more stock into spending 12 hour days with strangers who we don't even like half of the time making money for someone who doesn't give flying fiddle about us for a few coins so we can impress a bunch of people who are judging us anyway?  (So what if it is a run on sentence!)[/quote]

You don't get it. If I were hiring I would prefer someone who took a few years off to do anything including raising kids, but I wouldn't hire someone who talked about or who listed PTA experience in their resume. That just isn't equivalent yo having a job. I can't stand most of the PTA women at my kids' school. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics