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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure why you needed to mention anything about your husband being a physician. Are you like this in real life? My husband is also a physician, but I rarely, if ever, bring it up. [/quote]

NP. In the context of this post, I am going to assume that saying physician is shorthand for sometimes long, not flexible hours, taking call. Not a lot of travel. Can’t do much work from home, usually needs to be at office or hospital.  Invested many years in this path and cannot change careers very  easily, depending on the specialty.
If the OP hadn’t said so, other posters would be all over her asking- what does your husband do that he can’t change jobs or help more at home?
Extra details help paint a picture.  It was your post PP that was useless.
OP, i agree I don’t know many “Indian-American”  moms who SAH but I am sure you could find friends and support even if you needed to branch outside your usual circle.  Do what is best for your family. [/quote]

IA with this, as the doctors have very inflexible schedules but also great and stable incomes after the debt is paid, if there's any. It's relevant IMO.[/quote]
Meh. I'm Indian-American with two physician parents and a physician late-FIL. Of all the professional people I know, doctors whine the most about how demanding and inflexible their schedules are while at the same time they have by far the best possible work-life balance relative to the incomes they earn. I literally had one of my parents' physician friends say to my face when he learned I was applying to get a PhD and not to med school, "Oh, you don't want to work hard."

Anyway, for whatever reason, everyone in the circle of physicians loves to think they are the hardest working people on earth. DH and I both have PhDs and work in industry. DH has a much more demanding role than I do. From what I've observed, the people who work the most are business execs like DH (and technically me, though I'm not an exec in a revenue-critical role). That doesn't mean, by a long shot, that they are doing the most valuable work...but in terms of long hours and inflexibility. I guess more demanding and less flexible is BigLaw, but much of the legal industry allows for a reasonable amount of balance.[/quote]

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