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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I have a problem with my job/career path/lack of career/low pay.  I don't really care what others think about it.  I feel like I wasted my master's degree but the problem is that I'm not that interested in the subject of my master's degree field anymore.  If I could be back in college again I'd pursue an allied health career--physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, etc. and start my own practice.  Wish I could pursue that path now but I can't uproot us for a new grad degree.[/quote]

Sorry but I don't think this is about your kids or your mommy track status which you didn't take on until 35. You had 13 years to develop a career for yourself and you really didn't -- 2-3 yrs of F/T experience before mommy track is not a career. I don't think the problem is with your current need for flexibility etc. so much as -- you still think of yourself as that national merit scholar, top 10 in your class who got into the ivy league and everyone told you - man you're going to do GREAT things. And like so many women I knew at my ivy, you got the general BA and didn't get yourself on any career path. You hoped it would be med, probably tried it for too long when it just wasn't going to happen and boom all of a sudden you're 30. So you squeeze in a masters and 2-3 yrs of experience . . . .

There's nothing you can do to go back to flexibility and opportunities you had at 22. BUT frankly I wouldn't just accept some BS part time job just bc you have kids and DH is a partner. I mean if you don't WANT a real career bc DH is a partner fine. But if you do want something more-- you can most certainly afford a nanny. Do you really intend to be unhappy forever bc you have kids and a partner DH?

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