[Pasorrijer]

A fairly significant amount of women have dedicated a decent amount of time, and money, academically, socially, etc. To their careers.

Why, some women have even found working to be more enjoyable to being at home with kids.

All joking aside, my wife is extremely worried about the impact her career will take from having children and her life goals include executive level leadership as part of her career. So you could, in fact say that corporate life really does matter that much to her.

[WalterBright]

She can always start her own business. Don't need anyone's approval for that.

[Pasorrijer]

Absolutely! We're currently looking at that idea :) She just needs to decide "what business"... she's a Clinical Engineer, and getting into Medical as an entrepreneur can be challenging.

[ethbr0]

Except in (unnecessarily-) boarded industries and ones with predatory non-competes. Pedantic pique, but both annoy the hell out of me.

[WalterBright]

Don't sign predatory non-competes. If one is executive material, negotiation is a necessary skill :-)

I was helping a friend buy a car the other day. The salesman kept coming back with a "final" offer and "we can't go lower than that", etc., etc. But I advised my friend to hold the line, and he did till the offer got into his price range.

[namecheapTA]

Take it from a car salesman, this is often a tactic to slow down the negotiation and make you feel like your offer was a good deal for you. I have said those words many times when I could have gone lower than their offer, but if you just go back and accept it, a lot of "hard negotiators" get cold feet. Anyone that brings a friend to buy a car with them automatically broadcasts "I'm playing games and brought an extra player" so we turn on the games too.

[WalterBright]

Oh, I enjoy the game. I went along to make sure he wasn't rooked. He did notice that three times the numbers on the term sheet didn't add up, in the dealer's favor, and three times the salesman said he'd just made a mistake.

I knew about the term sheet ruse, it had been tried on me twice and on another friend of mine.

I also knew that I'd be up against a negotiator who does it all day every day, and so I expected game on.

[namecheapTA]

I sold cars for a decade, at very busy dealerships, and I have no idea what a term sheet ruse means. The only 'ruse' in car sales is the game played to stop people that want to pressure a dealership into selling something below it's typical sale price.

If a car is in demand, it sells near MSRP. If it's a high volume commodity that's hard to sell in the required numbers, you can discount it heavily. If everyone wanted to buy a car at "the best possible deal you've done in the last 90 days" dealerships would basically be out of business by definition. So someone has to hold the line or the entire system doesn't even work.

Im a very frugal person and don't even buy new cars, but why some people think they deserve to pay less than their neighbor did blows my mind still to this day.

[CalRobert]

Jesus this alone is enough to make me want to buy a Tesla.

[namecheapTA]

You can buy any car in America using the Tesla model. Just call them, tell them you'll pay asking price (just like Tesla requires) and tell them you want it delivered to your house with the paperwork. I have done this countless times, even for people negotiating a discount.

[ethbr0]

I meant less so on the business owner side, although it is a lesser concern there too, and more so on employee side.

Hard to hire experienced employees if no one in your industry (i.e. nail care) can change employers.

And then there's the latest 'you owe the (arbitrary) cost of your training if you leave before X' restrictions.

Also, car buying is the worst. The only working formula I've found is to deal with internet sales, confirm the number, show up, and say you're walking if they add anything but taxes to it.

[rdtwo]

I don’t think you can be a executive and be a good mom/dad at the same time. At least not in most companies.