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I asked a second year who interned at the fund I am going to be with this summer what the hours were like. While a 60 hour week is supposed to be a light load (in light of the alleged 70-100 hours worked by others), it fills me with dread. Baby Y will be sleeping when I leave and ready for bed when I come home. It sounds awful.

My talk about the doability of working motherhood is a bit of a farce given that being a student is quite a different matter from actual work. While I am insanely stressed and busy all the time, at least I can be busy and stressed at home mostly, rather than in an office far from Baby Y.

Well, better to experience it in a summer internship rather than a full-time job committment. If it"s a disaster, I"ll know that I have to do something less time intensive (what on earth that could be given my career ambitions, I don"t know). I often feel that it wasn"t right for me to have a child - if you want the truth. And yet I want more children. (Overpopulation be damned.) I don"t want to settle for a career that bores me in return for fewer/more flexible working hours. But I want to see my son. I feel really anxious and worried about my summer to put it mildly. And I don"t really know who to talk to about it - how to figure out what to do ... it will work itself out but right now I feel weary of thinking about this issue.
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