tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post6560660574765697106..comments2024-02-05T05:15:04.759-08:00Comments on Wandering Scientist: Book Review: I Know How She Does ItCloudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-45906801949695867672016-11-18T21:43:30.780-08:002016-11-18T21:43:30.780-08:00Laura Vanderkam continues to demonstrate that ther...Laura Vanderkam continues to demonstrate that there is plenty of time to do what we need to do. I loved her analyses of the time charts of the very successful women discussed here. We are doing better than we think we are. She has the data to prove it!Click here for Fishing Lodge Alaska Sitka AKhttp://www.kingfishercharters.co/Alaska-Fishing-Lodge.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-5924080263572734032015-10-13T05:42:30.677-07:002015-10-13T05:42:30.677-07:00This book is a MUST READ for every working mom. Lo...This book is a MUST READ for every working mom. Love, love, love reading how others are making their lives balanced!<br /><br />Marlene<br /><a href="https://www.indianahealthinsurance.com/indiana-health-insurance-start.php" rel="nofollow">Health Insurance Indianapolis</a>Marlene Detierrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09035816972520443608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-64018217143408861612015-06-12T08:48:47.665-07:002015-06-12T08:48:47.665-07:00Yes, a well-written academic book on an interestin...Yes, a well-written academic book on an interesting topic is a thing of beauty! I've recently discovered Deborah Tannen's books. They are old, but I am finding them very useful. They're not about time use, though- they're about language usage and how that both reveals and shapes our culture.Cloudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-7507977518848438692015-06-12T08:43:30.816-07:002015-06-12T08:43:30.816-07:00Yes, what you say here makes total sense.
But tha...Yes, what you say here makes total sense.<br /><br />But that's a huge problem with self-help books as an industry. I'm drawn to them, but much prefer academic work on the same subjects for exactly those reasons.gwinnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840990153103781272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-55286416759313530822015-06-11T21:25:23.068-07:002015-06-11T21:25:23.068-07:00I definitely think more money makes work/life bala...I definitely think more money makes work/life balance easier. Without a doubt, having money has made my life as a working mom easier than that of some of the other working moms I know from Pumpkin's school. Without a doubt.<br /><br />But, to be fair to this book, it is far from the only thing that focuses on the "big" career, high earning women. In the introduction, it is clear that the project was motivated at least in part by the "Why Women Can't Have It All" Atlantic cover and stories like that. Those tell an incomplete story, too, and this book does help balance that.<br /><br />I would also like to see more attention paid to middle class and working class working mothers, but to be brutally honest, I think any book on that topic is going to have to come out of academia, because there will need to be something other than book sales funding the work. This research that went into this book seems to have been entirely self-funded, and you only do that if you expect to make the money back in book sales. Sadly, a book about women with more moderate income levels and career achievement probably wouldn't do that. Cloudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-56643982803116546492015-06-11T21:18:17.288-07:002015-06-11T21:18:17.288-07:00Moving, new longer commute... yeah, that will take...Moving, new longer commute... yeah, that will take some time to adjust to! I still do a long (for me) commute of 30 minutes each way 3x/week, to go to a client site. They key for me was to find ways to make that time not feel like it was wasted. I tried a lot of things, and eventually discovered that I like to use the time to listen to podcasts. Some are about work-related topics, but most are just cool things I want to learn about.Cloudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-68626366617965611342015-06-11T19:34:52.196-07:002015-06-11T19:34:52.196-07:00Moving is a HUGE disruptive force. Definitely cut...Moving is a HUGE disruptive force. Definitely cut yourself some slack :) Good luck!ARChttp://papercraftlaboratory.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-66049683942540289882015-06-11T07:37:13.289-07:002015-06-11T07:37:13.289-07:00Having been most of my life out of the target demo...Having been most of my life out of the target demo and recently in it, I can definitely attest to this. Having money to throw at problems is amazing. It really does change everything, and not just at the margins-- there's an entirely new way to approach problems. But maybe that's one of the points of the book-- upper middle class women really do have it easier in many ways.<br /><br />I'm way behind in book reviews-- still have a half-finished one for Petunia the girl who was not a princess (which DC2 loves and points out every time I have this webpage open) in my drafts. Sorry! Maybe I'll have it queued up for Christmas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-64252991954435581132015-06-11T07:12:26.617-07:002015-06-11T07:12:26.617-07:00Thanks for this review. Waiting until the library...Thanks for this review. Waiting until the library gets its copy to read; I've already more than used up my book budget for the summer!<br /><br />I'm guessing I will be a combo of inspired and irked by the target audience. As I mentioned in a comment on LV's blog, I'd really like to see what she finds if she looks at lower middle class/middle class folks. <br /><br />I know for me just having an additional $5-10K/year would radically change my ability to outsource, in terms of increased childcare, etc. As it is, I consider myself really fortunate but nowhere near the income level of the women she looked at (whose houshold income is presumably even greater if they had a working partner).gwinnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840990153103781272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-52630201552739263592015-06-11T06:28:13.621-07:002015-06-11T06:28:13.621-07:00I had such a nice work-life balance, then we moved...I had such a nice work-life balance, then we moved (I still have the same job, just living an hour away from it now), now I have a long commute and a household mostly in boxes, a kid who's about to be out of school, and I'm struggling to find a new balance. I wish I could "bounce back" from these kinds of life changes better! I feel like it takes me so long to find a new groove.Aletheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056863610469196748noreply@blogger.com