"I just don't want to work"

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"I just don't want to work"
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Tue, 10-09-2007 - 10:06pm

Hi all... I'm new to the board and I am curious.


I am in my mid twenties, unmarried, no children. I work in an extremely competitive field with many other women my age. Many of us are making six figures and the job is very stressful. We all have a great work ethic, but sometimes when the stress gets really bad, I'll often hear the girls (never the guys) saying things like "Arrgghh... I'm so sick of work. I just want to marry a rich man, have kids, stay home and NOT WORK."....... I was raised by two working parents (two very loving, caring hardworking parents). My mother was very successful in her career, and I feel that when I get married, I will (like my mom) continue to work and raise children at the same time (my mom was definitely "super mom" ---she did it all and was great!)...... My main question: many of the women in my work stay in the position for about 5-7 years and then leave.....the funny thing is...

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Registered: 10-05-2007
Thu, 11-01-2007 - 1:03am

literally laughing out loud.

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Ducky

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Thu, 11-01-2007 - 1:05am
Well, then, neither should YOUR arguments count, since your experience is clearly far off the beaten path of normal people. I mean, if her outside the lines experience is inadmissable, why should yours count?

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Kitty

"I'm my own cats' Mom


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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

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Registered: 07-26-2007
Thu, 11-01-2007 - 1:14am

a whole Oscar Meyer Lunchables

In what universe did a Lunchable become healthy eating? Cuz I'm pretty sure it's not in THIS one....

Also, if the bologna song is anything to go by, it's m *A* y e r. (I tend to side with the song, given that it was written for the company and it would be pretty stupid for them to mispell their corporate name in their own advertising.)

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Kitty

"I'm my own cats' Mom


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

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Thu, 11-01-2007 - 1:18am

Just being realistic. Being their mom doesn't blind me to their personalities and how they mesh with mine. Especially when it comes to Erica and Dylan. If I had had only Joy and Angela, I could have very well have been one of those obnoxious moms who come on here and state that raising children is a breeze and a no-brainer.

Chris

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

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Thu, 11-01-2007 - 1:30am

Erica was 5 before I started liking her. It was all worth it now that she is an adult. But she will still argue that the sky is orange if you say it's blue. Only now it's for the fun of the argument instead of being outright contrariness. As a child, the word "no" didn't exist. If I said that we were going to store A, C, F, E, and D, I had better be sure that that was the exact order we did the errands. And no way could I sneak in store B into the mix. Her whole world would disintegrate. She had to have rigid order in her world in order to function.

Chris

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

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Thu, 11-01-2007 - 1:33am

AMEN!!!!!!

Chris

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

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Registered: 07-26-2007
Thu, 11-01-2007 - 1:37am

I cant remember the last time we had snow *over our heads* LOL.

Sounds like she's getting Alaska confused with the mountainous regions of Bavaria. I can see how that would happen--they're both in foreign countries, right? ;)

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Kitty

"I'm my own cats' Mom


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

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Registered: 07-26-2007
Thu, 11-01-2007 - 1:45am
Yeah, anytime they have to remind you, on the label, that it's both cheese AND food (processed cheese food, for example), that's BAAAAAAAD!!! LOL Even more scary are the "processed cheese product"....(so, it's not even food, just something they made out of cheese that once WAS food--you know we humans have made THAT stuff since the beginning of time, but only in extreme, desparate circumstances were ever driven to actually EAT it!! ;)

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Kitty

"I'm my own cats' Mom


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

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Registered: 07-26-2007
Thu, 11-01-2007 - 1:51am
Seriously; Duggar's recipes on their website was like a trip through memory lane through my paternal Grandmother's recipe card file. I loved that woman with the fire of a thousand suns, but healthy cooking was NOT her forte!!! We joked at her funeral that she was probably already inflicting her tater tot casserole on St. Peter.

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Kitty

"I'm my own cats' Mom


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

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Thu, 11-01-2007 - 1:54am
I felt it was time to bring it out of retirement :)

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Kitty

"I'm my own cats' Mom


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

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