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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a BIGLAW partner (two years in), and I make $310 per year (which I'm starting to see is pathetic in comparison).  I'm also the mom, pregnant with another on the way, but am working full time. Most of my colleagues are men, and not patient with women who have babies (though they pay lip service, it's mostly an inconvenience to them).  But, I'm nonetheless home for breakfast and dinner most days, do child care pickup and drop off half the week, and sometimes work from home so I get to do wakeups from naps, etc.  I also work in the evenings when necessary and on weekends, but generally from home--unless the project requires such concentration I need to be in the office.  I'm present to my clients, and make myself available for calls, etc. with other partners, but not in the middle of dinner/bedtime--if for no other reason that it's too noisy!

Screw everyone who says that people who marry lawyers know what they're getting into. There's no way to know it until you live this life, and frankly, there are enough periods of downturn, because the economy stinks, or because a case settles, for example, that you really cannot generalize.  The bottom line, seems to me, is that if you're not happy intrinsically with how your family spends time together, then you need to work on changing it.  You don't need to accept the way of life you have if it doesn't work for you.  But, and this is a fine choice too, you might decide that it works well enough for now given the financial security or your husband's happiness, and that you'll reexamine it later.[/quote]
BTW, have any men in your firm asked you if you're looking forward to your three month vacation? Or "it must be nice to get a 12 week paid vacation."  So funny. . . .  My second favorite is when you were up all night with a sick child, raced into work early and ran around crazy to get home to get sick child to doc and someone (usually young male who arrived at work by 11 and then took 1.5 hours for lunch and workout) spots you leaving (at 4 or so) and has to say "Cutting out early for the day?"  Fun times, really.  [/quote]

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