How to plan a career in your 20s to stay home with kids in your 30s

Forbes just pub­lished a sur­vey that shows that 84% of work­ing women want to stay home with kids . The new job that every­one wants is stay-at-home mom. This makes sense to me. It’s clear that women don’t want to bust through the glass ceil­ing, or they’d have done it by now. And it’s clear that men are not pulled by kids in near­ly the same way women are, becausewomen’s careers tank when they have kids and mens’ careers don’t.

So now that we are acknowl­edg­ing that women aspire to stay home with kids, the ques­tion remains, “What should women do in their twen­ties to get to that life they want in their thir­ties?”

Sheryl Sand­berg, the COO of Face­book, is famous for telling women don’t quit before you quit. She says women should see if they want to stay home with kids before they start fad­ing out of the their work life. This is great advice for the 16% of women who don’t want to stay home with kids. But for every­one else, it seems very smart to start prepar­ing to shift your work life to accom­mo­date the shift in your iden­ti­ty to becom­ing a mom.

Here’s how to make that shift work for you…

How to plan a career in your 20s to stay home with kids in your 30s
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