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In reply to the discussion: I Look Down on Young Women With Husbands and Kids and I'm Not Sorry [View all]phylny
(8,368 posts)During that time (from 1994 through 1999) I went back to school to earn my second Bachelor's degree and my Master's and have been working full-time since then.
I love my current job (speech-language pathologist), but was happy to be at home while our girls were little. My husband and I made lots of sacrifices for me to be home (our kids are still pissed off that we never took them to Disney, and we drove our cars until they croaked while others got new ones every few years), and I did do some very small part-time work during that time (babysat a neighbor's kids, worked at the YMCA teaching a "Mommy & Me" class) but nothing in the work world compares to the amount of work I put in raising our girls. The payoff is nothing less than spectacular.
Not everyone can afford to do this now, but my husband and I weren't rich and I feel fortunate that I was able to be home when I was.