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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I was a waitress for 6 years - through part of high school and all of college. The people I worked with who were career waitstaff were not "rolling in the dough" and we worked at an average, family-style steak restaurant.
My DH worked at a chain restaurant in NYC - loads of tourists and $$. Guess what? The tourists didn't tip much (if at all!) b/c it's not really common in other countries! Plus, the restaurant he worked at paid peanuts for the paychecks b/c the employer thought the staff would make up for it in tips. Which they didn't.
Like I said, I know there are some waitressing gigs that paid a lot. Just not the "majority" of them.
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Edited 10/3/2003 11:35:30 AM ET by silverunity
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