"I just don't want to work"

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Registered: 09-13-2007
"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: 10-24-2007
Wed, 10-24-2007 - 3:27pm
there are houses being sold for 100,000 in your area?
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Registered: 07-18-2007
Wed, 10-24-2007 - 3:27pm
I haven't been to either place, but as far as I know, the moon is far less flammable.

Yeah well, that's just, ya know, like, your opinion, man-The Big Lebowski 

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Registered: 10-24-2007
Wed, 10-24-2007 - 3:28pm

are you using your dh's computer? was that his link?

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Wed, 10-24-2007 - 3:30pm
Didn't she get spots all over her body with her roseola??? That's how we knew Marissa had it. She was 1 & we were traveling through Canada & we just thought she was a cranky pants too--car sick, whatever. Then, she got spots all over her body except her head. We hightailed it to Montana and got her to the dr. & luckily that's all it was. I was worried it was some kind of weird disease--something to be quaranined for . . . while we're traveling cross country! Luckily not!

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Registered: 07-26-2007
Wed, 10-24-2007 - 3:31pm
No, nor did i say that. I said, that $100,000 (which by the way is NOT the amount YOU said (100,000 thousand); the amount you tried was higher by an order of magnitude) is more than I paid and more than i owe.

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Registered: 10-02-2007
Wed, 10-24-2007 - 3:32pm
Nope, not his link. My link from the BBC show and from the geeks I work with. Check it out when you get a chance. Kind of fascinating and freaky all at once. I guess that there is quite a market for the dolls, and yes, they are made in California. LOL.
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Registered: 10-24-2007
Wed, 10-24-2007 - 3:33pm
100,000 thousand and $100,000 is not the same amount???
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Registered: 10-24-2007
Wed, 10-24-2007 - 3:34pm
i don't think i will be checking that out. you seem to
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Wed, 10-24-2007 - 3:34pm

me sending my daughter to a Catholic School has everything to do with it being the right school for her -- and absolutely not one thing with the public schools.


you haven't read the whole thread to know what part of California someone lives in

 

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 10-24-2007 - 3:35pm

Sigh. I know you don't live anywhere near the Addams family house. What I meant was that it's ok to live near the Addams family house (as I do). It doesn't much matter.

And believe me, I know that Ben Affleck has family in Boston. It's impossible to live around here and not know that. He's the local pet celebrity along with Matt Damon, both of whom grew up in Cambridge. But he has spent a considerable amount of time here recently to film his movie "Gone Baby Gone". Far more than he usually did to visit his parents on Thanksgiving (an event which our local pretenders to paparazzi always did manage to photograph and put in the Boston Globe). My point being that if he walked past this house (being as he's in town and all) he might decide to use it as a backdrop for a horror movie because it just looks THAT MUCH like the Addams family house.

Sigh.

Anyhoo. There are no HOAs here and shrubbery is whatever height the homeowners want it to be. And one house 2 blocks from mine looks just like the Addams family house, although that can't be attributed to its shrubbery. My belabored point being that it DOESN'T MATTER what height people cut their shrubs or even if a house looks like the Addams family house. The neighborhood is still awesome even without a September Vogue sized rule book to enforce what a small number of people envision as the only route to awesomeness.

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