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[quote=Anonymous]Another tax attorney here.  I wouldn't change anything.  I'm a partner in big law and work majority from home, super flexible hours.  Like, the partner i get my work from today asked what next week's plan, and we both agreed that we'd be around until noon on wednesday but wouldn't be looking for work. So i'll probably spend most of the week hanging out with DS who's home from school all week.

When i graduated from law school and summered at my firm, i saw that certain areas had tons of female associates, and almost no female partners.  And the corporate department had 2 female partners, neither of whom had kids.  Compared with tax, where the vast majority of partners under the age of 60 were all women, and all had kids.

I didn't even know if i wanted kids back then, but i sure as hell knew that i didn't want to be a job where the hours were so long that you COULDN"T have kids - even if i never had kids.  Because who wants to be 50 years old and still working 80 hours a week?  Kids or no kids. So i picked tax.  Great decision.  [/quote]

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