I think you *can* put those sorts of caregiving skills on a resume if they’re applicable to your industry, though. There are an awful lot of things that we all know/learn just by navigating the world that don’t show up as professional education but are still incredibly valuable to employers if they’re represented the…

That’s a solid plan. I claim to be 28 whenever anyone asks how old I am. ;)

I’ve run a small company AND a household - the skillsets needed to do both successfully are quite similar.

That’s exactly my point - a resume gap sucks and hiring managers are generally not in favor of looking deeper into the qualifications of a candidate with a 10-year gap. That’s why I think it’s important to look at the skills that parenting almost forces you to hone and explain them in such a way that will catch HR’s…

LOL THIS IS WHY I THINK YOU’RE AN ASSHOLE.

Thanks. Lotta salt on this thread, no?

Yes. I left my job in July 2006, three days before WeePiglet arrived. I had planned to go back but we did the math and it didn’t make sense for me to do so, and I stayed home.

Not me! I’d roll up in my paint-splattered Comfy Pants and a Sex Pistols t-shirt with my hair in a messy bun, drink EVERYTHING on offer, eat all the food (including double-dipping in whatever fancy dip situation is there), and generally bring my Hot Mess to a big stage. It would be glorious and epic and I’d probably…

...that is not at YOUR house.

Yeah, college students are technically adults, but THEY ARE CHILDREN. I’m a 42-year-old college senior and I am seeing this nonsense first-hand. The fun part is that when some 19-year-old Philosophy major wants to get all jacked up about why it’s wrong to have to learn about the slave trade because “I shouldn’t be…

That is the BEST name.

I cannot wrap my head around kids (KIDS!!!!) complaining that the professors aren’t teaching the exact way they want to be taught. Like, are you fucking kidding me, children? That’s HOW YOU LEARN - you take in new information, run it through your own filters and draw your own conclusions for better or worse.

Historians are on it, too. Different angles, same icky picture.

I wish I would have known about this in 2005 when What’s-His-Name’s ring went into the waters of Barnegat Bay. He was chubby when we married in 2000, but started training for an Ironman triathlon and lost a bunch of weight, making his ring loose. We took him down to the bay to work on open-water swimming and as he…

Well, no duh. Johnny Knoxville is famous for a reason.

I don’t wear makeup so that’s not an issue but I have approximately 10 million lip balms. Everything from good ol’ Chapstick to the ultra-local hippie vegan whatever I got at the farmers’ market. In my purse, in my car, in my nightstand, all bathrooms, my office, the kitchen drawer, the end-table drawer... I have a…

Zillow is terrible. I had a look at what they say about my house and it’s comically incorrect. I would never use it as a resource.

Atheist Jew that I am, I rarely say this, but God bless her.

Soak cherries in rum, you guys. It’s good for the soul.