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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Highly educated, high earning woman here, who is married to a similarly high earning man.  In my ideal situation, we'd have $50m in the bank and we'd BOTH quit and hang out without responsibility.  Maybe some volunteering here and there.  Nothing too major. Donate lots of cash.  My next ideal situation is our current situation (high earning, low hours).  My least ideal is not working, while DH goes off to work every day.  It's boring, creates an imbalance in the marriage (emotionally and financially), and unfulfilling for me.  [/quote]

Why would you be bored? Do you really think you couldn't find something worthwhile to do with your time, or do you only value earning money?[/quote]

I'm the PP you're responding to. Actually, after my son was born i was pseudo home full time (1 year mat leave, followed by 2 years in a work from home on my own schedule job that took about 15 hours a week, during which time i had a nanny).  I found it really boring.  I had lots of leisure time, and it was just super boring. I read, caught up on tv, hung out with lots of sahms during the day.  I felt really disconnected from DH.  Doing made up charity work, PTA stuff, and going to the gym just isn't my thing.  I know lots of sahms doing all kinds of "great on paper" stuff, but i don't think it's particularly important and it's just not for me.   [/quote]

You know the saying, only boring people are bored.[/quote]

I love my job! And my son thought it was pretty cool that the textbook he was assigned in a freshman year class was the one I had written.  The kids also like it when I dedicate my scholarly books to them.  Sure, if I had more free time I might also write a novel -- but why would I give up a cool job that gets me invited to speaking engagements all over the world, and lets me appear on TV so that I could stay home and knit?  You'd have to be kind of insane to choose to do nothing.[/quote]

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