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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t have kids at St. Albans but I will tell you it surprises me how many people make assumptions about women based on whether they have a traditional office or easy to spot job or not. I don’t work in a traditional field, I am an artist and writer and stayed home for a number of years when my three children were small. I also volunteer often and have a number of personal interests that I actively pursue but you wouldn’t know all this about me if you just met me at a school parent coffee.I am fortunate to be able to be more interesting than someone who has a 9-6 job they slog through all week. Happy for those of you who don’t and are able to do something you enjoy, whether in an office or not!
Just don’t make assumptions about women who you really don’t know at all. They may have a lot more going on then they tell you about, since you aren’t actually friends.
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NP here.  Sorry, I'm one of those people slogging it out in a 9-6 job, and the working women I know are on average much more "interesting" than women who opted not to work, simply because they have been building a career for decades (some having taken a few years off to SAH), are learning new things, being challenged all the time, and are usually pretty intellectually engaged.  [/quote]

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