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Corporate hates women. Look at any corporate company and you won't see many high paid, high level female executives. In my 4 years in the career world, I have realized that (ambitious) women truly don't have a place in the work force long term. All the more reason for women to be entrepreneurs...
You have find the right company.
Starting your company is great idea.
Just remember... you want kids...*someone* should actually be around to raise them.
Could be you or hubby. But someone. Otherwise, wth is the point?
I totally agree. I don't even board my dog when I go away!!! I just can't put my animals in the care of others, so I KNOW I want to be a hands on parents.
The happy SAHM's I know are wealthy. They are married to high earners and come from very supportive, well-off families. I also have a close SAHM friend that is poor and she's happy as well. The men typically feel more trapped then the women do. The SAHM's that I know rule the roost because most of them have at least 3-4 kids. Where are the husbands gonna go in that situation?? Alimony and child support would not be feasible. In those situations it's cheaper to keep them. I even have in depth conversations with my poor SAHM friend and she would never consider working again even though it would truly help lighten the load her husband is carrying.
Wow. /lol
Hope you can find a husband, pop out a few babies and get him trapped into a life of quiet desperation.
Hope you don't mind your husband having a few mistresses 'cause that kinda goes hand in hand with the above.
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Corporate hates women. Look at any corporate company and you won't see many high paid, high level female executives. In my 4 years in the career world, I have realized that (ambitious) women truly don't have a place in the work force long term. All the more reason for women to be entrepreneurs...
However, I feel that I can't pursue my career and drive for building wealth at 100% AND give 100% at home.
You're correct. Finding a mate and raising kids takes a lot of time and money. Something will be sacrificed. If the parents don't sacrifice, it ends up being the kids who get sacrificed (and often the marriage as well). I will say it is possible to build wealth if you have savings and investments working for you. But quitting your career or putting it on a slower track will certainly reduce how much you can add to your savings/investments.
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I have also noted that men seem to be very turned off by professional success. I have female professional mentors that are wealthy and successful...both of them are divorced and have not been able to get a man (I know for a fact they have both tried). I don't want to end up like them. I feel that I should change my strategy from building my own wealth and career to seeking a very successful man and just taking a backseat. There are not many couples like Beyonce and Jay-Z in real life. Successful men want to marry down, not up and not their equal. I know a lot of women who focused their ambitions on marrying a successful man and most them are happier than the women who were career driven. Any advise on this???
Marriages where the woman is the breadwinner are less likely to work out. Marriages with kids where there are two people working full time are less likely to work out as well. It's partly a primal thing. Women generally like marrying men who make more than them. And men generally like marrying women who make less.
First off, you're 25. You're really young. You don't have to be worrying too much about this right now.
This is really the wrong thing to say to someone who wants kids. After age 35, fertility plummets and so do the chances of birth defects, retardation, autism and other problems.
Hope you can find a husband, pop out a few babies and get him trapped into a life of quiet desperation.
Hope you don't mind your husband having a few mistresses 'cause that kinda goes hand in hand with the above.
I'd rather be cheated on by a wealthy man that let's me stay home all day and spend as I please than a broke one. Poor men cheat just as much as rich ones. If I'm going to put up with any type of bull$hit, I need PERKS!!!
My dad's second wife has been in corporate for 20 years. She makes $300,000+/year. She is a high level executive at a tech firm in Atlanta. She leaves home at 5AM to commute for an hour. And comes home at 9PM at night. She also works on Saturday's and Sunday's. The high level executives have showers in their personal offices. Some of the men don't go home for days. They have three children who come home after school at 3PM to a nanny. They are asleep when she leaves in the morning and asleep when she comes home. But she works like a man. That's just not worth it to me. Do you think they'd be paying her that much if she showed up at 9AM and left at 5PM? I doubt it. Women CAN excel in a corporate setting if they are willing to work as hard and as much as a man.
I know this was a joke but some people really believe this. In most cases, both parents & kids end up poorer after a divorce for the simple reason that it's a lot more expensive to maintain two households than one (not to mention paying the lawyers).
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