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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The more meaningful question would be why you couldn't develop your career before you had kids. You had many years to establish yourself in the field - what happened that it wasn't accomplished? If you were an established professional by the time you had kids, you could have had a flexible and much better paying job in your field of expertise.[/quote]

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I actually think -1

Unless you are on a straight track "prestige vocation" as I like to call it in my head- MD, JD...........the path for most is really meandering and you generally change fields once by the time you are in your early 30s. The ones I know who have really established careers outside of medicine or law actually had kids younger. I waited until 33 myself so I am not in  that camp but it is interesting because I guess when you think about it, 26 year olds in any field are kind of given the grunt work anyway, and can do that stuff often while taking a day here and there for sick leave or taking 12 weeks off- that kind of work shuffles around easier than the middle/upper managers who are closer to 35-40[/quote]

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