Iiiiiiiinteresting… Given that I was probably on that timeline anyway, this feels pretty intuitive to me. You get a career started, make some gains, earn enough credibility and trust to leave the workforce for a couple months without losing your professional footing. In the ideal scenario obviously, with a thousand other variables at work. I don’t think it should be this way, but I can see how this works. Here’s to the Affordable Child Care Act, may it exist soon.