Career

I Love My Job

November 17, 2011

When I was pregnant with my daughter, I knew my then-current job situation wouldn’t work for the long term. I frequently got home after 7pm, and left well before 7am. I was able to keep it up for a few years, but eventually decided to stay home with the kids. Blogging was the perfect was [...]

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Finding the Perfect Balance

October 7, 2011

I love traveling solo, I really do. And, while I do miss my kids immensely while I’m gone, I still like to travel occasionally for work. I love airplanes – hours of solo time just listening to music, reading, thinking. I love visiting new hotels, and new cities. So, when I was invited to the [...]

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This is What it’s All About

February 15, 2011

I really enjoyed my the career I’d had for over ten years before quitting in 2008. I LOVED the job I held at that time. Sure, it had it’s frustrating moments, and certainly wasn’t perfect, but it was a great job for me. I had wonderful co-workers and supported an interested area of the business [...]

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Explaining the “Stay at Home” Part

November 26, 2010

This morning, while lying in bed cuddling my daughter, she started asking me how old she’ll be in each grade of school. We went through kindergarten to college, and then she asked, “Is that it?”. I explained that depending on what she wants to do, she may need to go to graduate school. “What did [...]

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What Is It That You do?

October 13, 2010

With my daughter starting kindergarten, I’ve met a whole new group of people. And, inevitably, when parents see a mom clutching an iPhone in one hand while racing to pick up and drop up (especially when that same mom was out of town for a few days and daddy and a babysitter had to pitch [...]

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Can Someone SHUT ME UP??

October 8, 2009

I realized recently that while the tagline of my blog is “a career mom’s adventures in stay at home mommyhood”, lately, it’s more been “an unathletic mom’s attempt to run in endurance events because she likes the cute fitness clothes associated with such events”. So, here’s a post about that career thing again… On Tuesday, [...]

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The Part-Time Dilemna

May 19, 2009

Almost a year ago, I finished packing up a few things, walked out of my cubicle, said goodbye to the few people who were in the corridor, took the elevator down to the lobby, walked out of the skycraper in the financial district of Boston, and left my career behind. This was after ten years [...]

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All About the Key

April 16, 2009

Over the last few years, I’ve often worn a key charm – on a necklace, on my bracelet, and on my purse. I’ve had some people ask if it was a Monopoly piece (no!). So, what’s the significance? At the beginning of my career, I made a bad choice when I picked a job. It [...]

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To Work or Not to Work

January 30, 2009

I’ve had a lot to think about lately. After quitting my full-time, outside the home job that I had for ten years (which I really liked, by the way) in July, I originally planned to stay at home for at least a year. I got severance for six months (I quit because the job moved [...]

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Becoming a Stay at Home Mom

August 2, 2008

After many years of working full time, outside of the home, I am now a full fledged stay at home mom. I’m still not sure how the adjustment will work for all of us, to be honest, but I did know that something had to give.I loved my job – it was in the field [...]

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