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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm with you, OP. And I believe it starts with fair maternity and paternity leave. And changing the culture surrounding taking time to raise your infants.[/quote]

Yes. I'm so damn sick of it all. I wish I had leaned out in college and my early 20s. I wish I had gotten a job that would be easy to have children with. I wish we'd stop telling women to try harder. What's the point? So you'll never get to see your kids? So you'll work at the rat race forever? With no maternity leave beyond 12 weeks unpaid? I guess I thought as a naive 18 year old that by the time I worked my way up the ladder that corporations would have changed. nope.[/quote]

I worked my ass off for 20 years, and now I'm financially secure. I was able to see my kids, though of course I had long weeks, and am still married, 18 years later, to my first husband.  It's certainly possible, you just have to be content with the $200K job and not the $500K job.  And work for years just to pay the nanny, knowing that if you're frugal and don't keep buying new cars and houses, you will triumph.[/quote]

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