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What The Fark 5: I Can't Believe This Happened!

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St. Clown said:
The younger kids were born when Oregon Trail was commonplace on school PCs, not the rare special prize for the lucky kids.
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I actually played it in beta testing and I was in my 30's. :p

I had no idea it was actually boot strapped off a 70's program. I thought it had been deliberately created as 8-bit retro.
 
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Biologically it’s easier to have the kids younger for sure, and def better on the grandparents.

But with the student debt being racked up, no paid maternity leave and no healthcare for many and crazy day care costs, I think many women are realizing they can try a career or have a baby early. If they want to pay their loans off they need to be working.
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Biologically it’s easier to have the kids younger for sure, and def better on the grandparents.

But with the student debt being racked up, no paid maternity leave and no healthcare for many and crazy day care costs, I think many women are realizing they can try a career or have a baby early. If they want to pay their loans off they need to be working.
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Yup. I would love to be able to interact with grandkids and watch them grow up. It would be nice to be born into a place or time where a family could get by on a single income, or have affordable childcare options and not have a motherhood career penalty so that having babies in my 20s would be an option.

I know we've discussed this elsewhere.
 
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Kepler said:
Personally I think you're not a woman. Having a kid young overdetermines a woman's entire life unless she's rich or brilliant. Dr. Mrs. happened to be the latter. She was lucky. 99 of 100 women in her place would not have been.

Many women, and all the ones with a modicum of intellect, want to be something other than your baby factory. Get over it.
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Jeebus, who peed in your Cheerios this morning.

All I said is that I think it's unfortunate that people either are compelled to or feel the need to, or even elect to start having children later in life. Basic life expectancy reasons are going to deprive them of some of life's great joys.

I don't judge wolverineTrumpet or others for starting later. I feel bad that their financial, work or educational situation basically requires it. As I said, whatever the cause, it's unfortunate. You live only so long as the last person who knew you is alive, and the people who are most likely to remember you are your family members. I wish more people had a chance to experience time with more generations of their own family.

Come down off your farking high horse for once.
 
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SJHovey said:
Jeebus, who peed in your Cheerios this morning.

All I said is that I think it's unfortunate that people either are compelled to or feel the need to, or even elect to start having children later in life. Basic life expectancy reasons are going to deprive them of some of life's great joys.

I don't judge wolverineTrumpet or others for starting later. I feel bad that their financial, work or educational situation basically requires it. As I said, whatever the cause, it's unfortunate. You live only so long as the last person who knew you is alive, and the people who are most likely to remember you are your family members. I wish more people had a chance to experience time with more generations of their own family.

Come down off your farking high horse for once.
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No, Kep's on the right track here. It's not a person's position thing, but more of a societal thing. My financial and educational situation is better than most American's. But, I'm still a woman living in present times. So while I graduated debt free with a degree from a top engineering school, I still need to find a way to maintain my income while ensuring I have someone to take care of my child while I work.
 
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wolverineTrumpet said:
No, Kep's on the right track here. It's not a person's position thing, but more of a societal thing. My financial and educational situation is better than most American's. But, I'm still a woman living in present times. So while I graduated debt free with a degree from a top engineering school, I still need to find a way to maintain my income while ensuring I have someone to take care of my child while I work.
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Hmm... What's your income? I can send photos...
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Biologically it’s easier to have the kids younger for sure, and def better on the grandparents.

But with the student debt being racked up, no paid maternity leave and no healthcare for many and crazy day care costs, I think many women are realizing they can try a career or have a baby early. If they want to pay their loans off they need to be working.
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I had mine young. It wasn't easy and I had no idea what I got myself into. Retirement is going to be tough financially but hopefully I'll have grandkids eventually. We'll see.
 
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I'm having mine old - little LynahFan #1 just turned 1, and we haven't even told our friends yet, but little LynahFan #2 is due in July, when I will be 47 (wife is....well, let's just say eternally young). We both have accomplished significant milestones in our respective careers, lived abroad, traveled, been there for our families, and have a nice start on our retirement egg. Still, I will be 65 when #2 heads off to college, so no early retirement for me, and we do talk about how limited our time will be with our kids and grandkids. I think there has been a certain amount of selfishness in our decision making, but we are also in a position to make sure that our kids have all the opportunities in the world, so all in all I do not have any regrets.
 
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Married at 30, first son at 35, 2nd son at 37 and will be out of the house when I'm 54. Works for me.
 
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The hormones with Spironolactone have left me infertile, so no kids of my own. If I ever get married, and they have kids from a previous relationship, then their kids will become my kids, and I'm cool with that.
 
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Re: Oregon Trail

There was the original, when hunting you couldn't move around at all. It was sorta like first-person, an animal would run across the screen and you had to time your buckshot. The next version, you could move around a little, and it'd be bullets. The last version I remember, you could move around a little, AND it was in color.
 
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The Rube said:
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There was the original, when hunting you couldn't move around at all. It was sorta like first-person, an animal would run across the screen and you had to time your buckshot. The next version, you could move around a little, and it'd be bullets. The last version I remember, you could move around a little, AND it was in color.
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I remember the first version only. Time your shot.
 
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Oregon Trail is all about the green screened, Apple IIe version.... On 5" floppy disks :p
 
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That about wraps it up for my job. And my marriage.
 
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