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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's the only place I have ever lived where every single SAHM has to tell you what her job was before she had kids.  We call them the "used to be's".  Everyone always has to tell you that she used to be a lawyer within five or ten minutes of meeting her.  Who cares?  You're not a lawyer now, are you?[/quote]
This is not my experience.

But I can understand why they do this. The DC area is the only place I have lived where everyone asks you what you do for a living. So answering that you are a SAHM probably discombobulates the questioner. Hence they feel the need to say what they did before being a mom.

Not a fan of the career-obsessed culture here.[/quote]

I agree. People also look down on SAHMs more here than the do other places I've lived. I work, but I've heard other parents say the most derisive things about women who don't and I think it's so weird. I'm not surprised a lot of SAHMs are defensive and feel the need to let people know they are educated or have done serious work in the past.

Once my husband and I noted to another couple that we are not super ambitious career-wise (we are middle management and a few years back we realized we didn't really have aspirations beyond that and are okay just staying at this level until retirement and then pursuing bigger passions in retirement). Their response made it seem like we'd just told them we used heroine casually on the weekends. It was especially weird because it's not like they were career superstars. They are midlevel government attorneys. But just saying out loud that we are not pushing to rise up or make more money in our careers at this point felt controversial. So weird.[/quote]

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