Choosing to be a SAHM is not a "problem" but it is a valid choice, just like continuing to WOHM after a child is a valid choice. There is nothing wrong with the choice many women make to SAH, nothing.
They could send the limos, I suppose, and they they could pay to have them towed out of the ditches. Limos aren't so good in bad weather. And that would be ALOT of limos to make up for the stranded commuter trains, subways and buses! Hee hee. If *everybody* managed to make it downtown in their SUVS, weather not withstanding, there wouldn't be enough parking! They don't close companies, they just accept that some people aren't going to make it some days during the winter and don't ding vacation for it. Also, big cities draw employees from big geographies. I can have lots of snow on my streets, with almost none downtown! And vice versa. Its why we have these big huge metro traffic and weather report services. You know, just because a school board in one town is burried, doesn't mean the other 100km away is! Are you sure you have real life metro area experience? Oh and I didn't complain about maternity leave. Or claim that I had a high powered important position. But then again...that last is relative. Perhaps from where you sit, I do.
That really says nothing about the fact that women don't retrain themselves nearly as often as men...but rather when they do change paths, opft for less demanding more flexible positions with less responsibility, which they can persue, or not, when and if they want. You are a good example by your description.
It really doesn't matter, does it. The fact that most women don't retrain for anything else, but downgrade to flexible, non-responsiblity positions, holds. I suppose the occassinal female freelance writer is bound to make a go of it.
I especially enjoy the part of the fiction where she's been "type-cast into a dead-end job"....for 11 years...but is still "highly valued" by her employers in that job.
All I can figure is management there is like, "Well who ELSE would sit in that crap job for 11 years? Of COURSE we value her there!"
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Paige
Why shouldn't we, if we want to do it, make that valid choice? We should!!!!!!!
Paige
I can't see one thing in that entire post that even hinted at him getting HIS way and her not getting her way.
All I can figure is management there is like, "Well who ELSE would sit in that crap job for 11 years? Of COURSE we value her there!"
Karen
"A pocketknife is like a melody;sharp in some places,
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