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On Parenting Why I quit my job after two months By Libby Hoppe May 5 I knew it on day two. After working from home for a little more than a year, I traded in the t-shirt and j eans for business casual and took a new position that required I work in an office five days a week. My decision-making was sound: good benefits and a new position in my field that would challenge me with a company that had room for growth. But by the second day in the office, I knew it was the wrong j ob for me. Most of my career as a writer and editor put me in an office, including when I had my daughter three and a half years ago. I went back to work when she was 10 weeks old, but I had some flexibility. I worked at home with her on Fridays until she turned 1, and I wasn’t punished for missing work here or there due to doctor trips for this bug or that infection. On the second day of my new j ob, details began to emerge about what the workday looked like. Every minute at the office had to be accommodated for and entered into a timekeeping system, and a trip to the doctor had to be taken as paid time off. These rules had not been communicated during the interview process, and I failed to ask them. I was leaving my house at 7 a.m. and returning at 5 p.m., when I would see my daughter for the first time. Those rigid requirements simply weren’t going to work for me or my husband, who has similar work demands. In March, PowerToFly President Katharine Zaleski wrote a piece for Fortune magazine in which she apologized to all the mothers she worked with before she became a mother herself. In it, she made a number of confessions, like this one: “I scheduled last minute meetings at 4:30 pm all of the time. It didn’t dawn on me that parents might need to pick up their kids at daycare. I was obsessed with the idea of showing my commitment to the j ob by staying in the office ‘late’ even though I wouldn’t start working until 10:30 am while parents would come in at 8:30 am.” She