It's also that when you're a CEO, or in a position of power in your career, you have more leeway to make decisions to customize your work and personal life. You can refuse to schedule meetings during soccer games, or go home in the afternoon and telecommute after dinner. Marissa Mayer put a damn nursery in her office,…

You will "magically" have more money when you're a CEO, though, to pay for help, and when you're the boss you can flex your work schedule to allow for soccer games, sick days, etc without the same repercussions as if you still were working your way up.

Yeah those people are annoying. As someone who has long hair, I understand the need for regular trims to keep it looking healthy - although I definitely remember stating to my roommate during season 1 or 2 of that show "I wouldn't let that guy touch my hair either, he's the type that would say it would be just a trim…

Yeah but to be fair, 99% of the hair "makeovers" was a boring bob cut that most people (especially the ones that were nominated to go on that show) don't have the skills or time to style every morning. Trim the ends, give some shape, highlights, whatever, but I hated that every person, especially the ones older than…

Yeah, she couldn't slather it with heavy-duty conditioner and then comb out the tangles?

Seriously. I have awesome long mermaid hair, and you better believe I use fancy $30 shampoo and conditioner. I cancelled cable so I could afford that shit in grad school, made a huge difference.

Who are you to tell someone what they "should" do?! Not wanting or not being able to participate in a bunch of BS does not make someone a bad friend. Yeah, I seriously can't spend money on an ugly dress, uncomfortable shoes, and sixteen showers and pre-parties. So? I still love and support my friends. I've turned down…

I used to go in the early 00s, back when chemical brothers headlined every year and it was just one weekend. It was really fun (but hot), ratio of normals to posers/hipsters/scenesters was tolerable - it jumped the shark the year Madonna did a "surprise" set - 06 I think? I stopped going that year and don't regret it.

I disagree this from the original article:

There was a LOT of that sort of thing among my grad school peers as well, I just can't with that. Like, if you're so miserable just quit. It's even worse among post-docs. I feel like the negativity and over-complaining is inversely proportional to how well you're doing scientifically, and most of the time, personally.

With a few exceptions during pushes for grants, papers, and presentations, I didn't really work any harder during my PhD than when I had a Real Job - maybe 50 hours a week? I get so mentally (and sometimes physically, wet bench scientist) exhausted during the "regular" work hours that I can't imagine efficiently…

I was asking how you know the average duration of a relationship, not a marriage. Marriage statistics are easy enough to look up and compute, relationship duration would take some surveying and sampling and gray area wrt definition of a relationship. Just curious if such a dataset exists somewhere. They were married…

Yeah, but they're in their 30s and have a kid, it probably isn't an ideal situation for a divorce. Also, how do you know the statistical average for how long people are in relationships?

Yeah, I mean, not a parent, but it seems like the benefit of working from home vs office is that you're closer to your kids' daycare/school/extracurriculars and have a more flexible schedule to arrange around doctors visits and stuff, vs actually having the kids at home while you're supposedly working. If someone is…

So I'm assuming you've tied your tubes?

It seems like you are genuine and a nice person, hopefully you've realized that this is a complicated and sensitive issue for many women. Just keep your thoughts to yourself, until you have a real experience to share and then do so respectfully. If you need a disclaimer that says "I'm not shaming anyone!" then you're…

Maybe hold off on giving others "advice" on their reproductive choices until you have had real experience. Seriously, it's not too different than men giving "advice" to women about birth control and abortion. If you haven't experienced infertility, then shut up and sit down.

You're right, that would be sad. I guess what I'm saying is, I wouldn't be likely to enter in to a relationship with someone who chose a path away from higher education, because those choices are reflective of our values. There could theoretically be a person who does share my nerdiness and for whatever reason did not…

Just with an undergrad degree entry level, I have friends who made at least 80 with computer science degrees, biz/econ working in investment banking, consulting with McKinsey. 10 years after graduation, some with graduate degrees, all my college friends but one make at least 80, most 6 figures. The one is a teacher :)…

While that's great for you, I don't think you'd be "hard-pressed" to find college graduates who make that kind of money.