RE: still further off topic --> RE: Work vs marriage

Raising her hand.....

uh me. Of course, I had no kids, and my husband was wonderful about my working weird hours......

Rachel

>From: rsands_at_lendleaserei.com
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>Subject: RE: still further off topic --> RE: Work vs marriage
>Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 14:56:06 -0800
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>I may regret this, but here goes ...
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>Interesting thread, but it's been primarily from the male
>perspective. How many female DBA's feel they have been
>able to succeed in this field while balancing marriage,
>children and a home? How many of the men are married to
>someone with a job with responsibilities/hours comparable
>to that of a DBA?
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>Just curious ...
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>Robyn
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>StevenHaas_at_ebico.com on 06/01/2000 03:28:31 PM
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>I have been referring to MY wife as "MY BRIDE" for over 32 years.
>Over the years she has become my best friend, biggest supporter, severest
>critic and "other half".
>She is also mother to our two happy, well-adjusted, successful, respectful
>and loving kids.
>I can't see a life without her; there would be little point.
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>FWIW, that's my sentimental $.02.
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>Christine Turner <christine.turner_at_ips-sendero.com> on 06/01/2000 14:21:47
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>Amen Patrice! Your spouse is extremely lucky!
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>I have a simple question:
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>Why do some of you refer to your spouses as "the wife"?! It makes it sound
>like you don't feel any attachment to her at all.
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>Also, why was it "the wife's flowers"? Don't you live in that house too?
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>Just curious, sometimes I wonder why people get married in the first place.
>Peer pressure maybe? Maybe some men and women get married because they
>want
>to fit in, not because they really care about each other for the long term.
>Never mind the vows...
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>Nobody seems to have picked up on this.
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>I am a man, and I never refer to my wife as "the wife." It is
>disrespectful.
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>Regards,
>Patrice Boivin
>Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kline [SMTP:maklinesr_at_home.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 12:47 AM
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> Subject: RE: Work vs marriage
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> Been there myself, and can relate.
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> When I was Operations Manager, I had to coordinate the move of the
>data center, keep everyone pretty much ignorant that we had even moved, and
>then provide the data side support of that move as the rest of the
>department, some 900+ people came to the new building. When they came to
>the
>new building, they put their terminal on the moved desk, plugged into the
>wall, and they were up and running.
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> IBM said it was the smoothest move they had seen in 10 years, and we
>broke the system down at 12:00 noon on Friday and were up 4PM on Sunday,
>and
>only had about 32-64 users out of 255+ that had to wait till Monday
>afternoon to connect(bell tel had two bad lines). I had over 1,000 hours of
>over time that year... Of course the state didn't pay, UNTIL they realized
>my taking "comp time" which I WAS entitled to would be almost 6 months.
>Then
>they paid me. Was nice for that year, but needless to say a strain on the
>family. But receiving 1/2 years wage as a bonus was a pretty nice "gift"..
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> Now if I have an 60-80 hour week, which is very rare, management
>knows in advance I'll be taking an appropriate time off next week, or
>they'll owe my wife a very expensive dinner, or in one case a paid weekend
>in Colonial Williamsburg with car, hotel, and tickets to the events,
>etc....
>Fair is fair.
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> I'm down to about 45-55 hours a week, but it pays well, and I'm DBA
>for about 8-12 companies, 1 to 50 gig. "No database surprises" and that's
>what they want. I work almost exclusively from home now, cable modem, 3
>phone lines, 5 computers. That's quite a change and it took a lot of
>getting
>used to. Flex schedules that if I have to pull data at 6PM, I may take a 2
>hour lunch, things like that. (I took a hour plus break during this note to
>host a visit from my twins.... they popped in to visit.)
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> Maks
> Tech Consultant
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