Reply to BigLaw Wives/Mothers: Do you WOTH or SAH?

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "BigLaw Wives/Mothers: Do you WOTH or SAH?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As the wife to a hopeful future biglaw partner, I have become fearful that I am never going to have the professional career I thought I would.  I am highly educated and worked hard for it, but DH's career is so demanding I do not feel I can work more than PT and still spend as much time with the kids and home as I want to and we need.  I guess it's a good problem to have, but I still mourn the likely loss of the career I imagined when we first got married to the greater certainty of DHs high pay and long hours.  Maybe when the kids are school age more options will open up, but I worry I will have timed out of some opportunities.  [/quote]

This is me too.  We are similarly well educated (we met in college and I have a Ph.D.) and I am very good at my job. However, my job is not as high-flying as I think I might have been capable of achieving if I had had the kind of career support that I gave my husband.  I feel like I might have pursued career success with more vigor if DH's job hadn't sucked so much of the oxygen out of our family life.  He loves his job and is very good at it and now that he has made partner it provides a level of security that my low paying field will never do so I have ended up scaling down and picking up the slack at home.  I do not blame him since I was a willing participant in allowing him to work the insane schedule that was necessary for him to make partner. I just feel like I got a little lost along the way.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics