Some friends gave me this book as a birthday present a few years ago when I was not working, and I remember howling at the part where the working mom buys store-bought cupcakes and messes up the frosting to make them look home-made for her child's school function because she doesn't have time to bake cupcakes. I've thought of that scene several times since I started working full time again as I've been tempted to fraudulently claim store-bought things as my own. The funny thing is, other working parents don't go to the trouble to misrepresent. These days they just leave the Costco label on the cesar salad. Who has time for fraud?
I really enjoyed this book a lot. The only thing I didn't like was the fact that she didn't stick it out at her job -- instead she "discovered" the perfect small business and quit and to start her own thing. And while that is cool and empowering in it's own way, it also seemed like an easy story cop-out.
I think the hard thing is to find a way to balance it all when you are not your own boss...
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Some friends gave me this book as a birthday present a few years ago when I was not working, and I remember howling at the part where the working mom buys store-bought cupcakes and messes up the frosting to make them look home-made for her child's school function because she doesn't have time to bake cupcakes. I've thought of that scene several times since I started working full time again as I've been tempted to fraudulently claim store-bought things as my own. The funny thing is, other working parents don't go to the trouble to misrepresent. These days they just leave the Costco label on the cesar salad. Who has time for fraud?
I really enjoyed this book a lot. The only thing I didn't like was the fact that she didn't stick it out at her job -- instead she "discovered" the perfect small business and quit and to start her own thing. And while that is cool and empowering in it's own way, it also seemed like an easy story cop-out.
I think the hard thing is to find a way to balance it all when you are not your own boss...