[rescue] Bigger Iron at Home (was: SNMP, Baby!)

[Magnus Hedemark]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Kevin Loch wrote:

> It's not a old fashioned as you think.  I think that configuration 
> started in the 1950's (and diddn't last very long).

It's much older than that.  My mother is the first generation in my family 
that I can find where the woman went to work (outside of the WWII years 
where my paternal grandmother was a welder at Westinghouse while my 
grandfather was out in the Pacific theater enlisted in the Navy).

Going back to my grandparents on back to the Revolutionary War, every 
generation of women has remained at home to care for the family while then 
men were at work.  My records before then get very spotty.

My maternal grandmother clarified a lot for me.  Even during the war, she 
didn't have to work as the Navy paycheck was enough to take care of her 
family.  my wife was working at the time and trying to figure out how to 
make ends meet as we were planning for kids and the obvious time off that 
this brings.  Turns out we only needed two jobs to pay for all the sh*t we 
were buying.  Our life is more simplistic now, and my income is plenty for 
both of us.  She loves being home to watch the kids grow up and be an 
active role in that.