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Originally Posted by craigster59
Way to go Jake! Give my best to Mrs. NFN. If I were you, I'd start stashing away my "hobby" money now, It could get a little scarce in the future.
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Nah, really my biggest hobbies are working on the house, cottage and the cars. That won't stop anytime soon. I dumped a pile of cash into the boat this year knowing that would dry up, most of the stuff I have left on that is low buck, medium effort.
Only gap is the "fun" car department. I'm really loving the e300d, so I should be OK there... idles like a Cummins and revs like an Alfa. Plus, since talking my father into buying a the carrera cab, I get to enjoy driving and working on that. Next winter I'm planning on doing a 915 rebuild. Dad wins, I win.
I'd been contemplating selling the boat to pick up a "project" 911 or even a nice MG, but I'll hold onto it now. Pretty sure if I sold it, the money could end up in "general revenue" and disapear into silly stuff like diapers, strollers and baby seats.
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Originally Posted by Porsche_monkey
Is that the source of your laundry hints? If we scrolled down would we see Pine-Sol?
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No, because my wife never had to deal with grease stains and other messes until she met me. I had to show her the ropes!
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Originally Posted by phred68
Congrats Jake.
Do you get paid for that leave? Or you can take it with no worries about job loss?
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Unemployment insurance covers the salary to 65%. Most decent companies (like mine) top it up to 80-85%. Because you're not paying into unemployment insurance for that period, some people have a
slightly higher take-home pay than they do while on the job.
All employers are required to allow parental leave. Upon your return, they aren't *required* to give the same job, but my company is really great that way.
There are some companies where a guy taking parental leave would be quietly taken aside and explained that it may have an impact on his long term career trajectory. I know people who've experienced that. But where I work it's not like that at all. My manager has already made a point of discussing the different options, and how we'd work around backfilling, etc.
Many people on our team work from home 2-3 days a week to better balance kids + work. Our conference calls sometimes have screaming kids in the bakground, but other than that it works surprisingly well. The straight 9-5 gig seems to go out the window with that setup, but everything seems to work fine in terms of workload planning & team engagement. Better than having them drop off the face of the earth for 3-4 years then try to reintigrate into the workforce later.
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Originally Posted by Superman
If you had a 017/30, a Begatti Veyron and a space shuttle......this child will still be your favorite toy. When you look into the face of your child, the rest of the world fades out of view. There is nothing like parenthood. Nothing even comes close.
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I believe it. I'm a bit of a cynic, but my brother visited this summer for 4 weeks with his 8 month old daughter. Man, I turned to goo. I had baby brain worse than he did.