Off to work, we go
I always knew in my mind, that after my kids start going to school fulltime - that I would go back to work. Now, that it's been 9 years since I stepped in a corporate work environment, the idea of going back to work makes me uneasy - not because I don't want to work but because I feel as if I have lost confidence in my ability and that I don't have the drive to survive in a work environment. Looking back, I don't recognize the girl that stepped out of engineering college. I was ambitious, career minded and driven. Almost like a closet feminist, in a bad way. Being a female in an engineering field, it always felt like women were in the minority and there were more men to compete with. I looked down on women who chose to stay at home to look after kids. I thought that they had it easy and that the husband was taking care of the wife because she couldn't take care of herself. One of my first arguments with my husband before we got married was wh