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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“I chose to take some time off to care for young children, but they are older now and I’m really looking forward to re-entering the workforce.” No need to say more.[/quote]

I don’t like this. “I chose to take some time off” sounds like a luxury option. You don’t have to say it like that and it’s often not even true. It’s often more like “the math” or “the reality of our child’s needs” didn’t make it possible for both parents to work the way they had before. [/quote]

Yeah, it's not time off. It's a period of time when you were not paid for your time or work. It's not like you were on a beach smoking weed for years.

[Aside]: Unpaid work is an underestimated part of the economy, simply because we choose not to value it with actual dollar figures in economic models. For example, some nonprofit organizations will put a dollar figure to their volunteer labor, but most will not (for good reasons; we'd never want a tax on the value of volunteer labor). Schools never do; they don't even record the hours. But there is an economic impact of doing work though not being, just as there is for mowing your own lawn and not paying others to manage the domestic work. For this reason, it really should not be viewed as a gap in a resume. The skill set being used and developed may be different and not always relevant to the job sought, but it isn't actually a gap for most people who will then seek to renter the workforce (i.e., we aren't talking about the rare SAHM with two nannies, a housekeeper, and a driver... and a pool boy).[/quote]

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