Monday, September 22, 2008
Working Mother & Investment Banking
Talk about bad timing. The latest issue of "Working Mother" magazine landed in my mailbox today, with its annual Top 100 Companies that are family friendly. Unfortunately many top companies were of the investment banking persuasion, including Lehman Bros. In fact, a profile of one of its successful female investment bankers, a mother of an infant boy who also has an investment-banker husband, waxed enthusiastic about that career field's benefits to working moms and how it would allow her son to see her positively in 2 roles, good mom and successful employee. Ouch. Poor woman is probably unemployed as I write this, and her hubby as well. Poor baby. No private school for you! And to top it off, the back cover was a full-page ad for AIG. Could it get any worse for "Working Mother"? I think not!
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Culture clash
How's this for contrast: Went to a wedding back home in rural Upstate NY in the afternoon, featuring plastic cups for champagne, a keg of Bud Light as the open bar, and a wedding-cake top sporting a bride & groom in full hunting gear. Then that evening Mom & I dashed over to Saratoga Performing Arts Center for an evening of Tchaikovsky by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by the worldly and world-renowned Charles Dutoit and many a portable table covered with candles and fine wine.
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