HOUSEWIFELY WARNING

Another gorgeous, sunny NYC day! After a lovely, freezing run through the park with some excellent help from the i-poddess I am prompted to issue a warning today. It's this. To all girls aged around 30, married or single, please take heed. Can you do me a massive favour and plan for your next 20 years please? What will you be doing when you are 50? Because regardless of whether you have children, you will still want to be making a difference. Maybe raising your children right will help make that happen for you but you're fooling yourself if you think that's what life's ALL about.

Giving up work is the easiest option if you possibly can - it seems that way when the baby's yelling all night, you're in tears and work feels impossible. Ditto the singleton who decides to take off for India on a saved-up for soul searching mission. STOP right there! Intervention coming up........I know so many women, now aged around 40 - 50 whose voices are struggling to be heard from home.  If I had my time again I would not have given up on full-time work. I would have approached part-timing with much more caution. A part-time job is not a career. You back-step for the full-timers, compromise on your power and abilities to enable your arrangement and end up, after five years being seen as someone who's just not serious. Your earning power decreases and that is very hard to change.

SO, if you are thinking of giving up a demanding, time-consuming job and your life is being pulled to pieces, take a little sleeping pill at night to forget your worries but stay in your job! Plan your career. Re-train.  Managing on one income, earned by a man is the fastest passport to Depressionsville. Power and contribution comes from earning. I've seen countless marriages wrecked by bored, resentful, clever women trying to make some poor bloke earn all the cash then come home and be the Perfect Partner. Sorry girls, men have not evolved emotionally that far yet. You have to take responsibility for your own self, for your whole life.
Now, for the Goddess's sake, have a nice day!!!! xxxxxx