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From: lisa@mit-vax.UUCP (Lisa Chabot)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: WORST kiss of death
Message-ID: <2319@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Jul-84 20:44:44 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  3 20:44:44 1984
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Look, engineers may not be rich, but most of us make more than, say,
your average divorced secretary with a kid or two (my closest example is
that I make more than my mother).  And single, never-married engineers don't 
often have those couple of kids to support.  I can kind of understand the
desperation that might be felt by a woman with a low salary and kids at home
might feel looking around at an office of comfortably paid engineers with
no societal obligations (you know, children).  There are other problems that
the divorced mother faces that the unmarried person doesn't, and it relates
to those kids again: babysitters--they cost money.  Maybe you pick up the
woman and you drive somewhere, but the cost of your gas may be small 
compared to the expense and time involved in hiring a sitter (you just
can't count on maiden aunts these days :-).

So, look, compared to a divorced mother in a secretarial position, we
single engineers ARE rich.

	L S Chabot

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