Lori
04-13-2004, 10:08 AM
THE FIFTYISH interviewer sighed. “It’s data entry,” he emphasized. “This isn’t a job that is leading anywhere.”
“I just want to keep my feet wet,” the young woman in the black outfit told him.
She had been telling him for the past half hour. All about how she and her husband worked for the same company. How they had a 10-month-old daughter. How she had stayed home for her maternity leave, then worked part time until her employer told her she would have to go back to work full time or quit.
She quit. “We don’t need the money,” she told the interviewer. “I just want to do … something … at home.”
Shameless eavesdropper that I am, I wanted to lean over and clasp the girl to my ample bosom. I wanted to tell her everything was going to be all right. That it was OK to stay home with your baby.
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That, judging from the rock on her hand and the BMW in the parking lot, she and her husband could probably even afford it.
Work would wait.
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“I just want to keep my feet wet,” the young woman in the black outfit told him.
She had been telling him for the past half hour. All about how she and her husband worked for the same company. How they had a 10-month-old daughter. How she had stayed home for her maternity leave, then worked part time until her employer told her she would have to go back to work full time or quit.
She quit. “We don’t need the money,” she told the interviewer. “I just want to do … something … at home.”
Shameless eavesdropper that I am, I wanted to lean over and clasp the girl to my ample bosom. I wanted to tell her everything was going to be all right. That it was OK to stay home with your baby.
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That, judging from the rock on her hand and the BMW in the parking lot, she and her husband could probably even afford it.
Work would wait.
Read full work at home article (http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=68865&ran=54162)