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I think though there is a deeper aspect of this. How can you be an employee and the parent you want to be, and still find time to do something great? The simp
by einhverfr 14y ago
I think though there is a deeper aspect of this. How can you be an employee and the parent you want to be, and still find time to do something great? The simple answer is you can't. You have to pick any two, and even there you have a bunch of tradeoffs. Want to breastfeed? How are you going to hold down a job unless you can have your kid around?
The work/home division makes this impossible especially for women. The answer of course is self-employment but that often means giving up on a "career."
- Domenic_S 14y agoI think this is on track to change in the next few generations with working from home being more and more legitimate. If you have the skill to do the job, you can be a software engineer that works from home 90%+ of the time today; innovations in telepresence and better collaboration software are going to really push this envelope in the future.
- einhverfr 14y agoI think the more interesting question is whether we will see higher-value positions move more freely between self-employment and formal employment in the future. This would be the best possible solution. When it makes sense to be self-employed be self-employed. Then leverage that in getting into a higher-value job position when you return.