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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your occupation is perfect for this. Nurses can work any time day or night, unlike many jobs. Take night and weekends shifts when DH is at home.

Also you only have to "tough it out" for a few years -- kids will be in school full-time before you know it.

DH may want to consider going out on his own. Seems like a good time to make the change in terms of his career path. You have savings to cushion for the first year, and by then if he's good, he should be making good money. It also gives him the flexiblity to work from home/take on child rearing if you have nurse shifts during certain times. I have a few friends who did this (started their own practice) in this area and they do quite well working on their own, and get a lot of flexibility.
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On the last point, that is very much a function of personality and skills.  Many passed-over senior associates would be completely incapable of running their own practice.  They are technically very sharp, but don't necessarily have the contacts, or social or organizational skills, to strike out on their own.  The people I've known who did best on their own were people who had prior work experience before law school, and may not have had strong enough technical skills or enough good luck to win the partner lottery, but who were very confident in their own abilities.  Some of the traits that can hurt a BigLaw associate can be advantages for someone thinking about starting her own practice.

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