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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I roll my eyes at the comments that seniority brings flexibility. Not at those non mommy tracked high powered jobs. My first job in finance the senior women partners went home for two hours to tuck their kids in and then back out to wine and dine clients. Staying up till midnight or one and then waking up at five again. My second job in consulting all the partners flew all over the place. Interesting how the senior women quit after awhile. In big law if you are not selling as a partner you are kaput. I know male partners away from home two weeks at a time.

So either you are in a shitty mommy tracked job if you want to see your kids at all or you are in a job that’s not exactly bringing in the dough and have some drudgery. So don’t pretend that you are so much better than SAHMs.[/quote]

Keep telling yourself this.  [/quote]

You can’t handle the truth. This is reality. Or share your high titled position and salary at a prestigious company and your schedule.[/quote]

This simply isn’t the truth.  You clearly think things in life are very black or white.  You’ve just said you either never see your kids or you have a job that is drudgery.  You seem to be an extremist.

It’s not that high of a salary but 215k and I work 9-5. TW 3x a week.  Husband is similar and makes around 300k..  5 weeks of vacation plus holidays.  Same for husband.  I may decide to ramp things up once kids are older.

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That’s not even in the same ballpark. You have to work to give your kids an upper middle class lifestyle. My DH earns seven figures and the calculus is very different regarding the trade off if I worked.[/quote]

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