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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]dad here, lawyer at midsize firm.  zero chance I am home in Vienna before 7:30pm.  and a few times a month, or more, I have board meetings, business development, etc.  When I was in biglaw it would have been impossible to get home before 9pm.

So let me know, and if the answer is what I expect, how do you explain to your family?[/quote]

DH and I are both practicing lawyers, both working full time. We make it a family priority to eat dinner together as a family every night. We eat at 6:30.  Coincidentally, we also live in Vienna, and my DH commutes to DC.

We do this by declining evening obligations as much as possible, going to work super early, working at home after dinner and being happy with secure but low to medium powered careers. Our HHI is over $300,000 though so not any financial sacrifice to do it this way.[/quote]

this is the OP.   getting to work early would not make a difference, unless I could change all of my co-workers and clients. I need to be there when they need me. and yes,[b] if your combined HHI is $300K you are making a sacrifice.  That is fine for you and I'm happy it works out, but my target in a few years is approx $350-400K or so myself.[/b]  besides, it cuts my commute in half if I can get on 66.  [/quote]

NP here.  You sound really defensive.  I'm extremely envious of the PP you are snarking at - she has a great setup and she doesn't deserve to be sniped at just because she was kind enough to answer your question.  And I say this as someone who makes much more than you but would happily make 300k to have dinner with the whole family every night.

Just something to think about:  if you don't think you could live comfortably (and save heavily) on 300k, you might want to re-evaluate your priorities and see if you can find a way to spend more time with your kids, since you seem to care about that.[/quote]

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