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I am a SMC with a now elementary age child. My career and stability have fluctuated and the salary went down by close to $100,000 as I built a new career that utilized my skills in a new way. The initial transfer and segue was challenging but has worked for us as a family. Now that DC is slightly older, I plan work trips in advance as much as I can, fly grandparents in to stay when I’m gone and rely on my “village.”

Parenting is exhausting- yet rewarding. I find that it helps to lunch with other parent I have known since our kids were babies and discuss the foibles of today ... good sounding board- and makes me realize that girls, boys - they all present challenges to us!

I do confess that being jealous of the extended family network of other parents, but that could be forvsingle, divorces or married couples!

In my field I’ve advocated for us to move overseas ... we are relatively inexpensive compared to larger families- and the Benefits and salary would allow for more support than the high cost of living here in DC. That preference came as a surprise to my management!

Travel and as hoc changes can often be more stressful to accommodate![/quote]

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