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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have to admit that no one cares if you stayed home b/c you had a sick child or you cared for your now dead father.  It's not relevant to the work force.  Employers want to see people with updated skills who are task-oriented.

Furthermore, there are plenty of women who work and still care for a SN child and ailing parents.  I am one of them.  While it's not easy, I've learned how to keep things in perspective.  I do know that w/o my salary, my children would not be in private school, which is especially important for my son.

So, sadly, while I understand the pressure of family issues, employers who NEED to run an efficient office don't care.  fact of life
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Here's another fact of life.  Forward-thinking employers recognize the need for work/life balance, and the ones that want to attract the most experienced applicants have policies that provide flexiliby to working parents.   The recession makes these policies less necessary to the recruitment process, but that is temporary.   The pendulum will swing again.

I returned to the work force out of necessity after a few years off, and am kicking ass.  Once I proved my worth (took about a year), I walked into my boss's office and said, 'OK, now you see what I can do.  Want to keep me?"  I now have flex hours so that I don't have to choose between my child's needs and my boss's.  Win-win all around.      [/quote]

Thank you for this post (2nd poster quoted here). It's amazing the assumptions that are being made here on DCUM about SAHMs. Of course the reality of the current economy has made things much more difficult for anyone looking for a job. Asking for flexibility is not possible in many cases simply because there is a huge pool of applicants for most jobs.

It's good to know that once you've shown yourself worthy, you can ask for and get flexibility. That shows employers are waking up to the reality that jobs have to be made flexible for all workers.

Networking is the key to finding a job, OP. If you can volunteer in your field, you will impress someone who will recommend you to someone who is looking for a highly skilled and competent person. Or perhaps, like a PP, you will impress someone who has a job to fill, and hires you. [/quote]

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