Comments on: Book Review : Secrets of Six-Figure Women http://www.agreenertea.com/book-review-secrets-of-six-figure-women/ ...on aging with strength and beauty Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Christine Scaman http://www.agreenertea.com/book-review-secrets-of-six-figure-women/comment-page-1/#comment-927 Christine Scaman Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:12:18 +0000 http://www.agreenertea.com/?p=1406#comment-927 You are completely and entirely right, Chris. In fact, if you want to have some mediocre badly-paid career as a woman, you'd better have a good support system there as well. I wonder if you have friends who ask you why you're in school and working and doing the majority of the home-care when your husband's income is high. I would be like you... I need to have a place I go to in my head that is my own and to build something of my own. I see families where the husband earns the money and the family has to adjust around him for 20 years. As time goes on, his authority gets bigger, his ego gets bigger, and his income gets bigger. The wife, on the other hand, is not growing in those ways. Now some women are very glad to enjoy their lives, and rightly state that it would have cost him a lot of money to have someone look after his kids as well as she did, and she'd be entirely right. I often envy those women who are content in their lives. I spend more time irritated with my husband and not content and always wanting something different. I really like Steve Pavlina's writing. I was never able to read The Power of Now but I do like what Steve wrote about it and I read it quite often, http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/the-power-of-now/ I find it quite grounding on many levels. Thanks for your comment. You are completely and entirely right, Chris.

In fact, if you want to have some mediocre badly-paid career as a woman, you’d better have a good support system there as well.

I wonder if you have friends who ask you why you’re in school and working and doing the majority of the home-care when your husband’s income is high. I would be like you… I need to have a place I go to in my head that is my own and to build something of my own.

I see families where the husband earns the money and the family has to adjust around him for 20 years. As time goes on, his authority gets bigger, his ego gets bigger, and his income gets bigger. The wife, on the other hand, is not growing in those ways.

Now some women are very glad to enjoy their lives, and rightly state that it would have cost him a lot of money to have someone look after his kids as well as she did, and she’d be entirely right. I often envy those women who are content in their lives. I spend more time irritated with my husband and not content and always wanting something different.

I really like Steve Pavlina’s writing. I was never able to read The Power of Now but I do like what Steve wrote about it and I read it quite often,

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/the-power-of-now/

I find it quite grounding on many levels.

Thanks for your comment.

]]> By: Chris http://www.agreenertea.com/book-review-secrets-of-six-figure-women/comment-page-1/#comment-926 Chris Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:00:33 +0000 http://www.agreenertea.com/?p=1406#comment-926 My husband earns 6 figures but is so over-committed at work that I am left with the bulk of raising children. I chose to put my career on hold for many years because he works so much. I am back in school now and working now but it is very difficult to have the energy to devote to my career when I need it to take care of my family! If you want a big beautiful well-paid career as a woman, and a husband, and kids, you need a very good support system. My husband earns 6 figures but is so over-committed at work that I am left with the bulk of raising children. I chose to put my career on hold for many years because he works so much. I am back in school now and working now but it is very difficult to have the energy to devote to my career when I need it to take care of my family!
If you want a big beautiful well-paid career as a woman, and a husband, and kids, you need a very good support system.

]]> By: barbara stanny http://www.agreenertea.com/book-review-secrets-of-six-figure-women/comment-page-1/#comment-925 barbara stanny Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:33:19 +0000 http://www.agreenertea.com/?p=1406#comment-925 Thanks so much, Christine, for your wonderful endorsement of my book, and for helping spread the word about my work. I deeply appreciate it. Keep up the great blogging, Barbara Stanny http://www.barbarastanny.com Thanks so much, Christine, for your wonderful endorsement of my book, and for helping spread the word about my work. I deeply appreciate it.

Keep up the great blogging,

Barbara Stanny
http://www.barbarastanny.com

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