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I lost two pounds this week!!!

i think you hit the nail on the head there. and I can't imagine that every woman thinks changing diapers is the end all be all of their existence.

To have that many posts you wouldn't have time for a sex life, or lack the personality to have one. With another person, that is. Post while fucking. Problem solved.

Maybe you have been out of work for a while? After the dot com bust (my industry fell to shit and I was out of luck w/ thousands of others) I learned that staying at home too long sucks. It feels isolated and like your brain withers. Fuck that.

Ok muff, the woman in that last pic is hott. I was a little anti-use-womens-bodies-to-sell-coffee before this, but now, I hanker for a double latte. With foam.

then you should. I am serious. I think it would benifit any man who has the desire to quit his job for 2 years and be home with his children while his wife gets her career back on track. for reals if a mom did the first 3 years and daddy did the next 2 kiddo would be 5 by the time everyone was back at work. haha, Yeah, right. I couldn't do that to my wife. Why in the world would she want to give up being a stay-at-home to go work some shitty 9-5? lame. Anyway, I make more money than she would, so I don't mind taking a bullet for the team. I still get evenings and weekends. Anyway, it's funny to hear women complain about how they "had" to stay at home. Man, working for the man is the shitty end of the stick, not stayin' at home. You know, I gotta say though, now that a lot of us women do make as much if not more than men, I have to assume many men have the choice to stay at home. I don't see them leaving the workforce in droves. I don't think the home thing is easier than the work thing. I just don't think it has a compensation value of over 100K.

Sure, soon as random people come up to me and start thanking me for making computer shit work.

or "or"

i love jaeger. love it.

This is a good question and deserves further research. A journalist (who only gets paid a fifth of what a mom makes) could write a great article about it.

got a brother (who is over 30)?

It's also easy to be a bad employee. You can see them everywhere. Spraying. doh!

Unfortunately, I'm already married to the perfect woman, and I will always be married to her through the end of time. I really don't understand dad's who don't like to play with their kids. The best parts of my day are waking up early to make breakfast with my son (my wife gets breakfast in bed each morning), and then the hours of 6-10pm when I play with the kids and put them to bed while my wife gets a chance to relax. What it the world is more fun than playing with kids? I love this guy. Your wife is the smartest woman in the world--she made the right choice.

to the poopnic?

and mildly painful

that is so funny

Thank you--the voice of reason and experience

the stuff in Goldschlager does. I've seen it.

Working partents "get everything done" b/c someone else raises their children 8-10 hours per day. Really? Tell that to all the single moms and dads out there...

I agree with Snugs on this one. A divorce is not a firing--it is two people deciding to go in their own directions. Otherwise, you are stating that the husband is the boss and does the firing, and the wife is the employee (who is being compensated 138K). A lot of people have had parents who failed, and they still turned out fine. There are no companies like this. I have a lot of friends who have jobs that I would consider very, very hard. For example, my best friend is an emergency flight surgeon in the NAvy. She is in Iraq for the second time right now. Her weekly letters tell me that her job is much more difficult than I can imagine--and a lot of lives depend on her. I know there are many people like her out in the world. I am not down on stay at home mothers, I am down on articles that try to quantify it and then tell us working folk that a stay at home mom is worth more economically than we are. Bullshit.

I agree. I think the whole thing is a sign of something else that is wrong. Maybe just that some parents feel like they need public recognition for reproducing or something strange like that? I don't know--I don't understand it. But I see these articles about once a year and wonder about it.

Like the pakistan thing?

And moms do get vacations, time off, benefits through their spouses if they are married, etc. And as a contractor, I don't get paid vacation or matching 401 or sick time or any of that. I ain't bitching b/c I chose that. Same as a mother made that choice.

that was just my "witty" title. The calculation is actually about the value of the work. And no one works 24/7 forever. NOt even emergancy room docs.

But I just don't see how make 100K+ for that work is even close to reality when those of us with master's degrees, 10 years industry experience, etc etc etc make that much. It's not like we don't all have to go home and take care of our homes, finances, yards, investments, social obligations, volunteering commitments, family reponsibilities, etc