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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to work in consulting for years and this was very common thing among my male co-workers.  The job requires 100% travel, basically, you must go to your client's site and this may not always be in your metro area.  Most women would exit the industry when they would start families or stick around only if able to find long term engagements in the metro area where they live.  Men, however, tend to be more willing to continue traveling even after starting families.  Most of these guys would work 4 days a week, fly in on Monday mornings, fly out on Thursday night, so they'd spend 3 full days at home and 4 days away per week.  Essentially, some of them would look at it as being able to spend 3 days off with their families as opposed to only 2.

These are the trends I noticed, not a rule, but just a general trend.  Some men clearly seemed to prefer this lifestyle where they would not have to deal with the day to day family grind, they provided for the families financially, and the rest was the responsibility of a wife, who would usually be a SAHM.  These tended to be the higher up older consultants that had spend many years doing this, traveling full time away from homes.  The younger ones tended to have different views and weren't as happy with travel.  I guess age also has something to do with this, where older men grew up in a different generation with slightly diff values.  The wives of the younger consultants also tended to be full time working mothers and younger men in general felt more stressed about being away from families.

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OP here and ITA! This is exactly what is going on in DH's circle right now! The older guys vs younger guys think is totally true![/quote]

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