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Best for women to put their career on the backburner and raise their children. They have a duty to do so.
What an incredibly outdated and dismissive thing to say. Parenting is a shared responsibility, and women do not owe the world the sacrifice of their ambitions, careers, identities, or financial independence to prove they’re good mothers.
Many women raise children and build meaningful careers every day — often while carrying a disproportionate amount of invisible labor already. Suggesting their “duty” is to step back professionally isn’t wisdom; it’s gender-role nostalgia dressed up as morality.
Children benefit from seeing engaged, fulfilled, capable parents — including mothers with goals, leadership, and autonomy.
There’s never going to be a perfect time. That said, might be worth knowing what your target company’s benefits are before you switch. I got pregnant very soon after starting a new job and you needed to be employed for a year in order to get full benefits.
It's best to wait until six months after getting a new job to get pregnant if you can time it that way. You're not covered for FMLA until you've worked 1 year at your employer. Some employers have leave plans for people who've been there less than a year, so read the benefits info.
Huron 1 is trying to help figure out if you meet the FMLA requirements as a boomerang; pay attention.
Also may want to see what the requirements are for short term disability and if they offer hospital indemnity and what the requirements are for qualifying for those if the parental leave isn’t much.
I am risk averse and stayed at my job an extra 4 years. I wanted to leave but just had a baby and it was hard enough adjusting to motherhood I couldn’t imagine adjusting to a new job as well. When I was ready to start looking I was quickly pregnant again so I delayed another couple years. I started looking when my youngest was done nursing. It took almost 8 months of on and off searching between a stressful and packed work life and home life to find the right role. Ultimately left when my youngest was 2.
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Probably depends on the company. We hired back a boomerang a few years ago when she was 7 months pregnant. We were really happy to get her back, so we didn't care much that she would come back and then be gone for 4 months. Better than not having her here at all. And our benefits start Day 1, so she got a fully paid leave.
I was working on getting a promotion while TTC #3. My promotion ended up getting approved 1mo after I found out I was pregnant, and I told my boss a few weeks later. We’re in the middle of a huge transition (started in January and expected to take at least til the end of this year) and I’m due in October. I’m exhausted, but at the moment, I can’t say I regret moving forward with my promo. I, personally, would hold off on my career before I would ever think about holding off on growing my family. This move just felt right for me, even though I knew it was going to be tough 🤷🏻♀️