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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, OP, but I don't feel bad.  This is a conscious choice you made, to give up your career and be supported by your husband, and you are now perceived as always putting career on the back burner.  PTSA and HOA simply don't translate to the real world.[/quote]

^^ burned by the ex-wife for alimony,  are ya?[/quote]

Uh, hardly. I'm a  (female, with young kids) hiring manager who would never pass up a motivated young recent grad for someone who quit voluntarily and is now out of the game. Harsh but true. Based on OP's post I'm not alone.[/quote]

You do understand that sometimes there are extenuating circumstances that are carefully weighed before a woman decides to quit her career and stay at home.  It could be a special needs child, sick parents, husbands career involving travel, or maybe there are no pressing circumstances other than a mother choosing to be the primary caretaker of their child.

I know of not one SAHM that made this decision lightly, it is done because it is felt to be the best thing for that particular family at that given time.  That should not forever more make a perfectly capable, smart, mature woman rendered unemployable.  Taking several years off to raise a family (not just sit around eating cupcakes and playing video games) does not negate the decades of "working" life a person could have and also does not deem them as unmotivated.

The very fact that as a woman you could judge and dismiss so harshly another woman for valid life choices or circumstances because it is not the path that you would have chosen is arrogant and disturbingly sad.

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AMEN GIRLFRIEND! [/quote]

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