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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Telework jobs exist that pay well, OP. You have to look around for them. DH had an interview with a division of a company that's 100% telework. The woman he interviewed with was in Australia. He didn't take the job, but it was an interesting company. All the workers in the department were in different parts of the country and world. They have face to face meetings every few months, but otherwise work out of their homes.

It's out there, not a unicorn, OP. Keep looking and you'll find it. [/quote]

Was your DH looking for flexible, “rewarding” PT work that paid a good salary, after taking 10 years off?
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Telework isn’t a unicorn. PT isn’t a unicorn. Decent salary isn’t a unicorn. Rewarding isn’t a unicorn. But these things combined are hard to find, especially after a ten year gap, and with a skill set/credentials that aren’t exactly rare in this town. Otherwise, we would all just quit our jobs when we had kids.[/b][/quote]

I’m sorry you’re so angry. [/quote]

NP. I don’t read this as angry at all![/quote]

Me neither.  I was just going to post that this basically sums it up.  The individual pieces are real, but the combination is basically impossible barring random luck.  People who get those sweet part-time flexible well-paying gigs usually have a history with the company and have proven themselves, or they have lots of current connections in the field that make it possible to freelance or cobble together a series of contracts.  [/quote]

Another person that agrees. Nothing said above was angry; it's just fact.[/quote]

The question about her DH was a fact? [/quote]

Ha fair enough. But the question wasn't angry either.  OP asked for a unicorn of a job; one person countered that it wasn't.  A third person asked a question for the purpose of clarifiying whether that anecdote applied by explicitly asking whether that poster's husband was interviewing for a job with the parameters OP is looking for.

sheesh.

You are for sure adversarial for no reason.  [/quote]

Oooooooh, you're totally right, my mistake.  Speed reading through the thread.  See, I thought that PP was asking OP if HER DH "was looking for a flexible "rewarding" job after taking 10 years off" - as in super sarcastic, bc obviously, someone was/is getting paid.  But, I see now that it was a response to the Australia PP.

SORRY!!!!  I take it all back!  [/quote]

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