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To: Amy J who wrote (106826)	8/3/2000 11:43:20 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 186894

Amy - I'm not sure the working wife issue is based on quality of life. 10 years ago, my wife and I had about the same income and based our lifestyle on that level of money. As my income grew to the point where I could support us on my salary alone, she decided to quit her job and devote herself to optimizing the "other half" of our life. She devoted herself to this "job" with the same tireless energy which served her former employers so well. As a result, we have a much richer and more complete family life, have done away with the host of "surrogate" daycare and other outsiders, and have managed to make our time together as a family the centerpiece of our activity rather than an afterthought once work schedules were accommodated. A CPQ employee told me a story about the opposite happening there - the current head of CPQ's server group is a woman. She and her husband were both long-time CPQ employees at about the same level, but she rose quickly during the turmoil around the Tandem and DEC acquisitions from manager to director to VP to division head to group VP. As soon as her income rose sufficiently, her husband quit, and is now doing the "quality of life" job in their marriage. Looking back on my own experience, it was pretty easy to give up most of what was really important to make the lifestyle work - 10 years went by in a flash with little personal experience of value outside the workplace to mark its passing. I think, on the whole, a 2 income household is poorer in quality of life, although as a former CA resident I realize it is nearly a requirement for many families there.