On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Jenn V. wrote:
> srl wrote:
>
> > Or "if you're really loyal to this company, you'll work 70 hours a
> > week," which IMO is a far more common statement and gets aimed
> > equally at everyone when it's used.
>
> I got 'well, you're not married and you don't have children...'
> for that one.
*nod* Men get that too. The result is an industry that
sees you as over-the-hill when you hit 35, just because you have
things in your life that are [as|more] important to you than work.
If you're a guy, there's the added suggestion that you're not a Real
Man if you're not providing financially for your family by working
60 hours/week, if that's what the job wants. In some ways, women get
a pass on that one, because they're assumed to think that family's
more important than work--- but the result is a lack of career
advancement when supervisors lower their expectations of married
females. *sigh*
I find that the solution to the problem is to look for a job where
people have lives, whatever they determine that to be, and to leave
the office no later than 18:30 myself. When I picked up an
after-work activity that gets me out of the office by 18:00 most
days, I also started getting respectful comments from coworkers---
"Y'know, I'd expect that someone as technical as you would have no
life, but you have a busier life than anyone else here."
srl
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i just wanna walk through my life unarmed
to accept and just get by like my father learned to do
without all the acceptance and getting by that got my father through -AD
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