Kids...

My life is hectic at the moment, as usual. I actually like it that way. I started learning for an exam yesterday and I have it tomorrow. Long story short, I am in slight trouble, as I expected the exam to be easier than I’m now figuring out it actually is. Still, I had the time to have lunch with a friend of mine. I met her accidentally just outside the library in the university hallway and since we both hadn’t eaten yet, we decided to go out for lunch together. We were just discussing life, weather and other people, the usual small talk during lunch. Among other things, she told me she’d find a job in state administration very appealing. Why on earth would anyone actually want to work for the state? Her answer was quite simple; it’s a good way for a woman to have kids during the years after college. Since she wants to have kids at this stage of life this is pretty much the only option left to her, as a career in private sector makes it that much harder. She has a serious boyfriend and if it was just one “case” I wouldn’t be worried, really. However, I had a similar discussion recently with two other female friends of mine.
My plans for life are a bit different, though. Hectic exams, hectic career, maybe some hectic post graduate studies and eventually, when I feel I want to get serious, maybe a family. I don’t see myself deciding for it before I’m thirty, though. Still, I’m a bit worried. Not just about the sickening social situation that forces women to take inferior jobs due to a very natural occurrence of pregnancy. Another, more selfish thought dawned on me. What if the good ones are already married, when I decide I might want to try something very serious? I’ll end up alone then, I guess. It’s another thing to add on the price tag for my lifestyle. Freedom sure doesn’t come cheap.