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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. podcast. Today's tip is to rethink what is family friendly.
Sometimes jobs that aren't known for being family friendly can be more doable than you think.
Today's tip, like some others this week, comes from my book, I Know How She Does It, which came out 10 years ago this month.
For this book, I collected time diary data from 1001 days in the lives of women with with big careers, and families to see what life really looked like.
It turns out that in the 168 hours of a week, there is time to work, have family time, sleep, exercise, read, or whatever else people choose to do.
Lots of women and men, quietly and successfully, do have it all.
Anyway, I collected data from women in all sorts of fields that have not, not historically been known for being family -friendly.
Law, medicine, finance, tech, consulting, you name it.
And yet these women often had a ton of control of their time.
And the higher up the ladder they were, the more autonomy they had.
They also earned enough that they could afford the help they needed to deal with any potential challenges.
For instance, a woman working at a hedge fund told me that, despite her field's reputation, she basically worked market hours plus 90 minutes on either side.
That means that on a normal day, she worked from 8 to 5 .30.
Her time log showed that she did not work at night.
She did not work on weekends.
She got paid a lot.
Not bad, right? right?
Or consider a physician who told me she cringed when she heard younger women say things like, I'd like to go to medical school, but I also want a family.
She noted that no one says, I'd like to be a teacher, but I also want to have a family using that loaded word, but.
But the physician had arranged her life to have way more flexibility in her practice than her friends who were teachers turned out to have. And, she noted, she earned multiple times what her teacher friends were earning.
I am sometimes asked what the best job is for working mothers.
And I like to say CEO. I'm kidding, but only sort of.
Because when you run the show, the meeting will happen when you want it to happen.
And if you want to leave early for something, you will.
And other people will figure it out.
And if you don't feel like cooking dinner, well, you can use some of your extra cash to sort out that problem.
All that is to say, the evidence from time diaries is that many jobs that aren't known for being family -friendly can indeed be quite family -friendly if you want them to be.
So don't rule anything out.
If you find something intriguing and you'd like to try it, you could.
If you are offered a job, you can always negotiate to work however you'd like.
Or you can simply work for organizations that focus on results, especially if you see that other people there tend to be enjoying full lives as well.
They are in on a little secret.
Sometimes things are family -friendly that aren't known for being family -friendly.
Maybe you can take advantage of that secret, too.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
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