My daughter got laid off almost a year ago - just before Covid was a thing yet. Her employer was going lean on G&A (she’s a patent paralegal) before putting itself on the market. She was making $82K, somewhat more than her husband. They have a house, and a big mortgage, in the Bay Area.
Then Covid hit. No jobs to be found. In March, her husband’s company (a HUGE construction company, where he’s an OSHA compliance office) interviewed her for an office manager job on a new project on the same campus (Moffat Field) at about $60K, but Covid stopped the new project. Between having roommates and for a while the extra UI, they’ve limped along.
In the meantime, her husband finished a degree and certification program, and got a nice bump in title and salary, they lost their roommates and then got two new ones. She applied to so many jobs. Never got an interview, maybe one.
They had two expensive failed rounds of IVF over the last 3 years. No eggs left. She has stage 4 endometriosis and her uterus is misshapen She’s now 38. They started applying to do foster to adoption.
She finally got a bite with a company in San Francisco (they live 100 miles south in Gilroy), for a patent paralegal job with a cutting edge tech firm called Square. The job is remote work (!!). She had FOUR interviews (!!), and they just offered her the job!!
She asked for $85-100K. They offered $115K!! And their employee benefits include infertility coverage!!! IVF, surrogacy, adoption!!
I am so proud of her and happy for her and it’s just KILLING me that I can’t go to her and give her a huge hug. I haven’t seen her (or my son, stepdaughter and her 8 year old daughter) in over a year.
As soon as we get our vaccines, I’m going to force Charles to drive us to Cali so I can see my family!
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* She has Müllerian defects, which are scientifically interesting: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3473390/#!po=2.00000
She had a complete septum inside her uterus (embryologically, the septum between the two halves of the uterus is supposed to degenerate during development) which was surgically removed, a somewhat arcuate uterus (heart-shaped, with an indentation at the top), fibroids, and an associated renal anomaly of duplicated ureters - she has 4 instead of 2 (so far, no problem at all). Plus the endometriosis itself is likely because of associated imperfections in the genitourinary embryological development.
Her husband is adopted, so considering adoption is not a problem. But they spent so much money on failed IVF, they’d given up on it. Maybe now than can at least consider trying again, perhaps with a surrogate. Hell, I’d offer her my old and dusty uterus if I thought I could do it!
Then Covid hit. No jobs to be found. In March, her husband’s company (a HUGE construction company, where he’s an OSHA compliance office) interviewed her for an office manager job on a new project on the same campus (Moffat Field) at about $60K, but Covid stopped the new project. Between having roommates and for a while the extra UI, they’ve limped along.
In the meantime, her husband finished a degree and certification program, and got a nice bump in title and salary, they lost their roommates and then got two new ones. She applied to so many jobs. Never got an interview, maybe one.
They had two expensive failed rounds of IVF over the last 3 years. No eggs left. She has stage 4 endometriosis and her uterus is misshapen She’s now 38. They started applying to do foster to adoption.
She finally got a bite with a company in San Francisco (they live 100 miles south in Gilroy), for a patent paralegal job with a cutting edge tech firm called Square. The job is remote work (!!). She had FOUR interviews (!!), and they just offered her the job!!
She asked for $85-100K. They offered $115K!! And their employee benefits include infertility coverage!!! IVF, surrogacy, adoption!!
I am so proud of her and happy for her and it’s just KILLING me that I can’t go to her and give her a huge hug. I haven’t seen her (or my son, stepdaughter and her 8 year old daughter) in over a year.
As soon as we get our vaccines, I’m going to force Charles to drive us to Cali so I can see my family!
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* She has Müllerian defects, which are scientifically interesting: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3473390/#!po=2.00000
She had a complete septum inside her uterus (embryologically, the septum between the two halves of the uterus is supposed to degenerate during development) which was surgically removed, a somewhat arcuate uterus (heart-shaped, with an indentation at the top), fibroids, and an associated renal anomaly of duplicated ureters - she has 4 instead of 2 (so far, no problem at all). Plus the endometriosis itself is likely because of associated imperfections in the genitourinary embryological development.
Her husband is adopted, so considering adoption is not a problem. But they spent so much money on failed IVF, they’d given up on it. Maybe now than can at least consider trying again, perhaps with a surrogate. Hell, I’d offer her my old and dusty uterus if I thought I could do it!
sounds like a wonderful company
