6 Ways to Keep Family From Derailing Your Career

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[See Stay-At-Home Moms Need a Career Plan.]

6. If you do "off-ramp," stay involved. High-profile volunteer activities, for example, can demonstrate transferable skills that are valued in the paid workplace. "Then it doesn't look like you have a hole in your resume," says Hewlett.

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Lynn of MN 9:37AM June 07, 2010

It's funny - you set us up with thinking we're valuable and worth asking for what we want, and then you shoot us down with #4 and tell us that flexibility is something to gain by undervaluing our work and not getting what we want.

Of course, I'm hiding on the toilet with my laptop, yelling negotiations between the 6 year old twins and the 2 year old who just got called a coo-coo head, making comments on an article on going back to work after 8 years of being at home, so what the heck do I know?

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foxy.kate of PA 9:17AM June 07, 2010

Isn't negotiating a salary reduction contrary to everything we have ever been told? Shouldn't we value ourselves enough to ask for the salary we want AND the working conditions? This is a draconian article and as a woman I am appalled. I'm sorry, I'm not drinking Ms. Palmer's "kool aid".

Jennifer of MD 9:11AM June 07, 2010

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