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  1. Sure, soon as random people come up to me and start thanking me for making computer shit work.
  2. or "or"
  3. i love jaeger. love it.
  4. 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.
  5. got a brother (who is over 30)?
  6. It's also easy to be a bad employee. You can see them everywhere. Spraying. doh!
  7. 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.
  8. to the poopnic?
  9. and mildly painful
  10. that is so funny
  11. Thank you--the voice of reason and experience
  12. the stuff in Goldschlager does. I've seen it.
  13. 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...
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. archenemy

    omg!

    Like the pakistan thing?
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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
  20. at least that way she'd be earning her salary. heee hee just kidding
  21. No arguement there. But I can't see how running around cleaning house and changing diapers means you'd make more than the head of IT.
  22. archenemy

    omg!

    to take out some of the bitterness?
  23. but not the precendent
  24. No disrespect to mothers at all, but I have a hard time believing this. http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/CollegeAndFamily/RaiseKids/ThePriceOfAMom.aspx?GT1=10019
  25. Fan club!!
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