YOU SAID: "I am getting ready to start law school and am horribly anxious at the thought of having kids because I know my husband and I will both have to work, and the childcare factor makes me so guilt-ridden already. I really resent the fact that women my age are growing up knowing ahead of time that they have to face a choice between staying at home and sacrificing a salary or putting their kid in the care of someone else for 8-10 hours a day. We should really be pushing for work-life balance, flex time, telecommuting, etc. But at the same time, I realize that the jobs that can provide that are all upper-level jobs, not service jobs that low wage-earners are in."

Welcome to MY life! LOL!

And your last sentence, I would kiss you for it! Seriously. Because as an attorney with 2 kids and a husband and a life where we both have to work, I think flex-time, work-life balance is important to EVERYBODY - men, women, parents, childless people, single people, married people.

I'm all for profits and growing companies, but I think that if they really did the math correctly they would find that they don't have to overwork EVERYBODY EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE WEEK. Of course, I will admit that certain businesses need to have weird hours, etc. But I also think that employers and employees need to start a dialogue about the work-life balance. Families are in the 21st century, but businesses are run with 1950s business models that simply don't work anymore.

Keep that idea in mind in your endeavours in the future and maybe we can start an organization that fights for that kind of thing!

CHEERS!