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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a first time mom at 43 (!) with one and only DD. I'll be 62 by the time she goes to college. I've had a 20-year career, and am most recently C-level at a large company. I feel like I've achieved the highest point of my career, and I could be doing the same thing for 20 years before retiring. Or start my own company, which would have its own trajectory. Obviously I've wanted DD for a long time, and love spending time with her. When she gets older, I could go back to work PT, or freelance, or volunteer. Has anyone go from SAHM to retirement and any tips?[/quote]

I am there.  Youngest is in college now and DH only has 2-4 years left in this area.  It doesn't seem like enough time to try to relaunch.  I volunteered a lot in the past almost 20 years and am a little burned out.  So, I am concentrating on me for now.  Going from SAHM to retirement isn't difficult as you are already home and acquainted with the cadence of being at home.  The step from WOH to SAH was the much bigger adjustment for me. I was a much more natural woh parent and a very reluctant sah parent, but you deal with what you have.

My advice is to keep some sort of gig alive during the SAH years that you can ramp up as much as you want when the empty nest arrives. [/quote]

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