Comments on: Career Ambition After Having Kids http://www.blisstree.com/articles/career-ambition-after-having-kids-155/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:37:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jamie http://www.blisstree.com/articles/career-ambition-after-having-kids-155/comment-page-1/#comment-90745 Jamie Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:15:59 +0000 http://www.careerandkids.com/career-ambition-after-having-kids/#comment-90745 I think this is a great post. I've been at my current employer for six years. I do not supervise any employees but at my last job I did, however it was extremely awkward. I was 30 at the time and the woman I supervised was about 12 years old than me and one of those employees that no one wanted to deal with. To say she drove me insane for three years is putting it mildly. When I moved to my current company it was a lateral move salary wise but I was MORE than happy to give up any kind of management track. I still make a decent salary and my hours are much more flexible which was perfect since we started a family shortly after I joined my current company. I think at one point pre-kids I actually aspired to really climb the corporate ladder and be a manager or vp or something in PR or corporate communications but now I'm happy working more behind the scenes, but with good benefits and a good salary and a flexible schedule (I telecommute half my week now and LOVE it.) I think this is a great post. I’ve been at my current employer for six years. I do not supervise any employees but at my last job I did, however it was extremely awkward. I was 30 at the time and the woman I supervised was about 12 years old than me and one of those employees that no one wanted to deal with. To say she drove me insane for three years is putting it mildly. When I moved to my current company it was a lateral move salary wise but I was MORE than happy to give up any kind of management track. I still make a decent salary and my hours are much more flexible which was perfect since we started a family shortly after I joined my current company.

I think at one point pre-kids I actually aspired to really climb the corporate ladder and be a manager or vp or something in PR or corporate communications but now I’m happy working more behind the scenes, but with good benefits and a good salary and a flexible schedule (I telecommute half my week now and LOVE it.)

]]> By: sista smiff http://www.blisstree.com/articles/career-ambition-after-having-kids-155/comment-page-1/#comment-90898 sista smiff Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:51:49 +0000 http://www.careerandkids.com/career-ambition-after-having-kids/#comment-90898 I never really had ambition at all. I never really knew what I wanted to do. I had some ideas of things I could possibly do or possibly want to do, but, I never felt like I had any sort of ambition. I don't ever want to live to work. I work to live and so my family can live. Part of what is the driving force behind me wanting to go to school and actually have a "career" is so I can have more options in my life...be it work options, home options, whatever. I have always felt limited because I did not have an education, therefore, I've settled for the jobs I've done. I'm babbling. Probably not making much sense. I never really had ambition at all. I never really knew what I wanted to do. I had some ideas of things I could possibly do or possibly want to do, but, I never felt like I had any sort of ambition. I don’t ever want to live to work. I work to live and so my family can live. Part of what is the driving force behind me wanting to go to school and actually have a “career” is so I can have more options in my life…be it work options, home options, whatever. I have always felt limited because I did not have an education, therefore, I’ve settled for the jobs I’ve done.

I’m babbling. Probably not making much sense.

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