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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole post seems like a humblebrag about easy kids and a high HHI. [/quote]

Yes and her insistence that she’s not rich I find incredibly grating. She seems like someone who isn’t content or grateful with what she has. Like, you have a spouse who brings in enough money that you’re wealthy and don’t need to work, your income is not needed for your family’s survival so you basically just get to work part-time without the pressure of bringing in a set dollar amount, making the mortgage (I’m sure she has at least a $1 million house), providing the benefits, and being the breadwinner, you have kids who are easy (I’m sorry but who gets lucky enough to get two easy kids let alone one?) and who sleep (again, these sound like unicorn kids), you can afford a nanny and night nurse (unlike 99 percent of the world), you have family who helps you, you are both in good health, etc. etc. These are all blessings you should count, instead of feeling inadequate because you aren’t a nurse practitioner.

And I’ll sorry but I’m really of the mindset that women can’t have it all, all the time, and that certain times in our lives require us to prioritize our family’s needs and other times when our family’s needs are lesser we can prioritize career jumps. So why the drive for another degree if you just finished school and your two kids are young and need you? As a nurse you have so much flexibility with different types of nursing, jobs, hours, etc. Have you really exhausted those options because it sounds like you haven’t? I know plenty of nurses who work in clinics and have regular hours who are RNs. Is OP like a lot of nurses who have an inferiority complex with physicians and practicing under them that they hope will be solved by becoming an NP? If your partner brings in so much money, why even work at all? Just go back to school full time if that’s what matters but then don’t work. Or if you do really want that third kid, just go for it but then prioritize your family and put your degree on the back burner until your kids are older and school age. You can go back to school Whenever but your kids are young once and you’re only fertile once so 38 isn’t the time I would be putting off childbearing. These just don’t seem like difficult decisions and this thread continues to baffle me. [/quote]

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