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- From: tanner@sundog.nas.nasa.gov (Leigh Ann Tanner)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Is There A Mommy Track for Technical Professionals?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.174838.15358@nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:48:38 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.061356.14467@fuug.fi> <301@cnmhnet.UUCP>
- Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator)
- Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
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- In article <301@cnmhnet.UUCP>, keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan19.061356.14467@fuug.fi> an6814@anon.penet.fi writes:
- |> >I'd like to work part-time in order to spend more time with my infant,
- |> >It seems as if a part-time career is non-existent in software engineering
- |> >and in professional/technical jobs in general. It's looked down upon,
- |> >I am torn. On one hand, I've got lots of time invested in an education
- |> >and a career. On the other, these first precious months of my baby's
- |> >life will never come again. My husband's job pays twice what mine does,
- |> >A Mommy seeking a balance
- |>
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- |> or working part-time [if possible] or staying at home and raising
- |> the younguns and adjusting your lifestyle to a lower income.
- |> Obviously, these things should have been thought about BEFORE you
- |> had the younguns, but you now have to live with your mistake.
- |> Whatever you do, please do your co-workers a favor and choose one
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- Gee, are you really as dumb as you seem?? You obviously have no
- children of your own.
-
- |> or the other. Don't shortchange them by staying at home when the
- |> youngun coughs one time, or rush out in the afternoon when the
- |> school calls to have you pick up the youngun cause he sneezed.
- |> Your coworkers deserve to have someone there that they can depend on
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- And just what does "their share" mean??
- |> to do their share.
- |> --Keith
- |>
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- Leigh Ann
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