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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looking at your wife's progression as an attorney, I would suggest that she will have difficulty finding comparable employment after taking time off.  100K nonprofit lawyer jobs are, believe it or not, highly, highly sought after by exactly the type of woman your wife is--a highly skilled, credentialed, mother.  Once someone nabs that job, they usually don't give them up, so they don't come open very often.

How stable is YOUR job, OP?  I know plenty of people who make excellent salaries who could not, realistically speaking, replicate those salaries again if they lost their jobs.  There are various reasons for this, but it's ignorant to pretend it's not true.  [/quote]

This is correct.  It is extremely hard to leave, take off a couple years, and come back at a decently high level in the nonprofit world because these jobs are sought after by a certain well-skilled demographic.

I think your wife needs to ask herself if she really wants to quit working altogether or if she just hates her current employer, in which case she could look for another job.[/quote]

Pp, I took 5 years off and it took anout six months for me to find a prestigious job as a lawyer at one of the better paying federal agencies (where I had no perwonql connections).  It really isn’t difficult if one is well credentialed, as op says his wife is.

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