Posted by Happyflower on February 2, 2008, at 21:10:42
In reply to Re: Learning who your friends are and are not » Happyflower, posted by LlurpsieNoodle on February 2, 2008, at 20:45:21
> as for academia being a sheltered existence... try to survive on 15K in Chicago with insane (I'm talking about actual Dx, here-- not colloquially) professors who control the future of your career. It made me crazy, and I'm not the only one either...
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The thing is, that you will have that when you start working full time too, but you have less leisure of the hours you want to work, much less control and if you have a family you also have a huge responsibility on top of that. You also had your husbands income and insurance too, that helped. I am not saying what you lived was easy, but having a family is way more responsibility and hard work than being in college, and the mother who work full time, is even more responsibility and stress. When you find yourself there sometime soon, you will wish for the leisure days of college again, days where you can do nothing if you choose, stay up late at night because you don't have to get up at a certain time in the morning to get ready for work, or get your kids ready for school, you might not believe me, I know I wouldn't either at your age, but life has a cruel way of teaching us these things. lol
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