From the New York Times 5/26:
"One set of statistics neatly summarizes the findings. After surveying Harvard College alumni 15 years after graduation, Ms. Goldin and Mr. Katz estimated the average financial penalty for someone who had taken a year and a half off and then returned to work. In medicine, that person earned 16 percent less than a similar doctor who had not taken time off. Among people with no graduate degree, the gap was 25 percent. For both lawyers and Ph.D.’s, it was about 29 percent."
1.5 years out of 15 working years. Seriously?
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*sigh*
My brain freeze a little when I think about the consequences of my actions having left my tenured job.
Ouch.
G keeps thinking someday I may write a book -- but how to break it to him that if that should ever happen it wouldn't provide nearly the same security as the job did....
I get it. It's a huge deal.
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