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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Holy cow. OP you sure you want to stay in a career field with such condescending people? Sounds like you'd be dodging a bullet if the whole law thing didn't work out.

C'mon you guys. Especially the moms. If you all are brilliant and articulate and professional enough to be successful attorneys surely you could come up with career advice (even advisement NOT to pursue law) that doesn't sound like you're a 7th grade mean girl. [/quote]

You really expect people who have pursued and succeeded in a highly competitive field, filled with Type As, often at the expense of their personal life, to tell someone how to get what they have, without any of that pesky commitment and sacrifice stuff?

Hahaaaaa.......[/quote]

At the expense of your tact, too? Worth it?

I think there's a place for everyone. I agree that in law, you're hard-pressed to find successful women who haven't had to sacrifice just about everything. It sucks but it's a fact. I know of a couple of women in that field who have found alternative schedules/arrangements that afford them some more freedom family-wise, albeit at the expense of salary and promotion potential. It sounds like OP is willing to forgo some things to get more flexibility. Anyway, I guess I'm sensitive to her plight because I came on this board asking for similar advice (in a different field) and was chewed up and spit out. I was stunned by how vicious other moms could be. Honesty is cool (and welcomed) but I think we'd all sound a lot more honest and reasonable if we talked to each other on here the way we talked to our friends in the flesh. fWIW, despite the naysayers I found a niche that allowed me to have a flexible part time schedule and still stay current in my field. I had to go after it and create opportunities for myself, and I make a lot less money than I did before. But there's a balance and it works for my family (right now). Anything is possible, even if it's the exception and not the rule. [/quote]

Well, anything might be possible, but what I gather from your ramblings is that you haven't really learned much from all the advice you got here - try using paragraphs in the future. My eyes glazed over after just a couple of your run-on sentences. [/quote]

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