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[quote=Anonymous]WE are a two career fam, always have been.  Kids are now 11 and 14.

So if you and your spouse both have fairly inflexible jobs, are you comfortable with:
- someone else (nanny / grandparent) - taking your kid to routine doctor and dental appts.  [b]NO - we go to all doc appointments ourselves.  [/b]
- your kid not always having someone at every school performance.  [b]YES- we can't make it to everything, but we try to make it to most things.  You have to prioritize, there are a million things.[/b]
- you kid having someone else help them get ready for school or eat dinner with them on a routine basis (not everyday night but not like once a month either).  [b]NO, not okay with this.  One of us is usually home for dinner and to get them off in the mornings.  Both of us are home for dinner two or three times per week.  I would not be okay with someone else routinely putting my kids to bed or getting them to school.  
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I was a government lawyer for 10 years and had lots of flexibility while DH had a more demanding career.  We're now high enough up that we both have a good bit of flexibility.   The bottom line is that one or both of us have made career choices to ensure that someone has flexibility for kid-stuff.  You can find a job that is both interesting and flexible.  Maybe not the MOST interesting or the MOST prestigious/high paying but enough.
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