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- From: kerry@brabo.esd.sgi.com (Kerry McCracken)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids,misc.jobs.misc
- Subject: Re: Is There A Mommy Track for Technical Professionals?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.023857.14115@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 02:38:57 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.061356.14467@fuug.fi> <cindy.217@berkp.uadv.uci.edu> <1993Jan21.201315.11573@news.vanderbilt.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.201315.11573@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
- sayre@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu (Frank Sayre) writes:
-
-
- |>
- |> >But let's face it,
- |> >you chose to have the younguns, so you are going to have to sacrifice
- |> >SOMEWHERE, whether it's taking your younguns to a daycare center,
- |> >or working part-time [if possible] or staying at home and raising
- |> >the younguns and adjusting your lifestyle to a lower income.
- |> >Obviously, these things should have been thought about BEFORE you
- |> >had the younguns, but you now have to live with your mistake.
- |>
- |> Mistake! #%^!($)&@%&*#@(@&.!!(%$&(*$&*$&@(#@($&(!)$*.
- |> HhnHmmm! Keith, boy, you need to work on your choice of words. You
- |> are WAY out of line here.
-
- "Out of line" is an understatement ......
-
- |> >Whatever you do, please do your co-workers a favor and choose one
- |> >or the other. Don't shortchange them by staying at home when the
- |> >youngun coughs one time, or rush out in the afternoon when the
- |> >school calls to have you pick up the youngun cause he sneezed.
- |> >Your coworkers deserve to have someone there that they can depend on
- |> >to do their share.
- |>
-
- Who's really being short changed? Sorry Billy ... you'll just have to deal
- with that flu on your own, I have a meeting! OR ... I don't have time to
- sit and read with you ... maybe you'll pick that up in our WONDERFUL school
- system. Geez ... get your priorities straight!
-
- |> My own experience is that people with families are often VERY
- |> dedicated to their jobs, in part as a result of their desire to
- |> guarantee
- |> security for their children. Often the benefits of this dedication more
- |> |> than make up for lost time during a child's illness. To assume
- |> anything
- |> less of the original poster is simply not fair. And I daresay that many
- |> managers would agree with what I'm saying.
- |>
-
- It would be REALLY nice if we could all go back to the 50's ala Ward and
- June Cleaver. Unforetuneatley, our "trickle-down" economy which has been
- blasting the average American on the head does not ALLOW for Mommy to stay
- home and Daddy to go to work. Not to mention how many single parents who
- are out there (both men and women). Rather than chastizing people for not
- adhereing to some unattainable life style ... let's deal with the vast
- reality of Mom and Dad working. Both parents having to deal with the sick
- children etc.
-
- Do we work to live .... or live to work?
-
- |> Frank
- |>
- |>
- |> ============================================================
- |> Frank C. Sayre
- |> sayre@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
-
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