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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Getting married and having children really clipped my income/career progression. I know a lot of people who pull it off successfully but I did not. Throw in some bad luck (children's health) and we never managed to get ahead of the curve.

My only positive trait has been that I am cheap as the day is long. I would have comfortably quit working years ago if I was single.[/quote]

How did marrying, except for having kids, hurt your income progression?[/quote]

She convinced me to move to a high cost of living area (DC!) where I made less money and manufacturing jobs were few. We had kids after two years and were soon on the treadmill of PPD, less ability to put in long hours at work and the general exhaustion of young children. I never got back on track.

One error was to vastly underestimate how much of my time and energy would get sucked into family life. Like I said; other people pull this off successfully. 
Another was to think I would someday make more money than I did. My income peaked in the low $90s sometime around my 40th birthday.
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