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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH keeps telling me to lean in and get promoted.  I know he's just saying it so I don't take my foot off the pedal and ultimately realize I'm disappointed with my career, but I'm 15 weeks pregnant and have a 2 year old. I earn $125k, so I'm not doing terribly, but it drives me to madness that he's so persistent in that I should be striving for more at this point.

I'm so tired that I'm just trying to do the job that I have. [/quote]

I hear you. My wife thinks I'm a loser because I have a PhD and only earn 150k per year. She keeps suggesting that I go back to school in my mid forties for an MBA, as if that will magically make me a millionaire. [/quote]

Baffling to me that someone making $150k or even $125k would feel like they're "not doing well" and need to strive for more.

PP with the PhD, if you were going to be a hotshot businessman, you would already be that. You are a scientist. Far better to be a happy scientist making "only" $150k than a bored businessman who hates his life but makes two or three times that (if it's even possible to do so at this point if you switched careers, which is doubtful). Tell her to talk to the hand![/quote]

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