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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I gave up a career that didn't pay nearly as well as yours, and I can't recommend it.  I get it about it being too much, but I'd exhaust every other possible way to make your life easier before giving that up.  You can't go back.  I mean really, you can't.  Once you go SAHM, you end up a receptionist or substitute teacher somewhere, no matter what you were before.  [/quote]

Not if you have the right contacts and it depends on the field. I went back in at the same level I was before after 9 years SAH and then went up from there. Then I quit to SAH again. Heh. [/quote]

+1.  i was out for about a dozen years (career change and then SAHM for 5 years), came right back in to my original industry at the level that i had left, am now at the same level now as my peers (management) who didn't leave the workforce because i went ALL IN for the past 8 years.  now, 8 years later with two young teenagers, am totally burned out and considering all options to make my life more manageable.

ladies, you CAN take time off and get back in.

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No YOU can go back- not everyone is as privileged.[/quote]

Thank you.  I did everything possible to keep one foot in the door, kept up my skills and always worked part time and on contract, but was never able to pick up my career trajectory.  I had missed the transition to management and by the time I was able to commit to full time, I was too old for anyone to want me as less than management, but not able to get management positions with the recent gap, even though it was not even a complete gap.  My field just requires going "all in" at a younger age, and once it's passed, it's passed.  Perhaps younger mothers will have more luck, but going back in my industry was not possible, and I do not know one single other person (and I have a wide network) who has been able to make it happen - not even those who went back to school and got additional degrees, not even those who were supremely talented and accomplished, not even those with amazing connections.  In point of fact, the entire top management team at my former place of work is comprised of childless women in their 50's and 60's, and above them it's all men.      [/quote]

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