On 10/27/09, Two-Year wrote:
> ML- I would most prefer to go back and do what you mentioned in
> your last comment. I would have married the nice young man I dated
> in college who was wonderful to me and became a big business
> success. He didn't want me to work, either. But, nooooooooooo!
> Carly Simon was singing that we should not "put ourselves on a
> shelf" and women's magazines said things like "I'd rather bring
> home the bacon than fry it!" So, I turned down happiness to go to
> WORK!! Work did bring some happiness, but not what I had expected.
>

I actually have no complaints.
Had I married right out of college and not taught, I would have had a
different life, but would have missed out on many things and people who
have made my life as it is quite wonderful in many ways.
I wouldn't say that my happiness came from my work per se, just that in
answer to the question "if you could go back (back in time, I assume)
and do it all over, would you teach", I would certainly, knowing wha
teaching has become, give that 'no wife of mine is going to work'
fellow some closer consideration. :)
Of course, for a large part, those were our choices....teach, be a
nurse, be a secretary, or get married and be a stay at home.

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