Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
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Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
| Tue, 09-23-2003 - 10:36pm |
In the 70's and 80's women fought to get into the workforce (the whole Ms. magazine generation)...and then the tide turned in the late 1990's when more women started to stay home by choice. Now, it seems like being a SAHM is a status symbol....and superior to being a working mom.
Kat

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For *me* I expect more from my dh and he, for me. That's why *our* marriage works.
My husband is doing what he desires. He'd never be one to live the life of leisure only. He is a workaholic. Look it up in the dictionary & I swear his picture is in the illustration. I know, I've lived with him for years (before marriage even).
However, the idea that waiting tables is *lucrative is just flat out laughable; I don't care if a waiter or waitress is pulling in 7 figures annually; they are working hard enough they *ought* to be earning 9 or 10 figures. There are MUCH easier ways to make that kind of living; waiting tables is HARD HARD HARD labor--I typeset and earn slightly more than $50K year...and I'll take 50% of the income you claim a good waitress can make cuz I'm doing like 10% of the physical effort she's making. MY career is all about lucrative, compared to waiting tables.
Edited 10/5/2003 3:52:08 PM ET by silverunity
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