Nope. I'm 45 not 25. Please explain how taking an early retirement to teach what I've spend the last 25 years learning is showing that I can't cut it? I've spent 25 years showing that I can cut it. If anything, I'm feeding the stereotype that says that older workers don't want to put in the kind of time needed to advance an engineering career not one that says women can't cut it. I would have to have quit at 30 to have done that.
I have. I spent 25 years working as an engineer and proving that women can do it. Now I'm taking an early retirement. How is that hurting them? Retiring from a career early to teach at 48 is not the same as opting out when you're 25.
Really? How is having a successful carreer as an engineer and retiring at 48 to teach harming women? Do tell? No, I'd have to quit at 28 to show we can't cut it for the long haul not 48. Try again.
Your original point was that women should consider the ramifications of their actions when they stop working. I counter that women DO consider the ramificaitons of their actions, but the affect on other women is a distant second to the affect on the woman's own family when considering those ramifications.
Are you saying that the majority of women who quit working are incapable of thinking their decisin through thoroughly?
They won't care. They may ask why. But they will forget it, hire someone else, maybe a man to fill her position (oooooh!) and move on. But the same time next year they will not remember that she quit to teach. Just that she no longer works for them. The women working with her probably couldn't give a patootie if she quit to stay home with the kids or quit to teach or quit to travel around the world with her dh.
People just don't care. Colleagues of mine quit all the time. To stay home with babies, to travel, to just sah even if they don't have kids, to change careers, whatever. When we go back to school the next year we don't think about so & so quit to sah and she is hurting the teacher profession.
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Are you saying that the majority of women who quit working are incapable of thinking their decisin through thoroughly?
Jenna
Jenna
Wow. (not a good Wow either)
Paige
People just don't care. Colleagues of mine quit all the time. To stay home with babies, to travel, to just sah even if they don't have kids, to change careers, whatever. When we go back to school the next year we don't think about so & so quit to sah and she is hurting the teacher profession.
People should just live by their own standards.
Paige
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