 Dance lesson number six is continuously evolve and experiment on the personal side as well as a professional side my my story on this one is That back to there are no silver bullets cooking was always a challenge I love to cook but who has time to do that you get home and it's whatever time five o'clock six o'clock Everybody's hungry and they're sitting there looking at you we went through we call them the eras We had the frozen dinner era For a while We had the bago salad era Where you would I would get some chicken or something and cook it up And we'd have salad dump it out that was and then we kind of got tired of that then I had the Crock-Pot era And in that era it ended you have to continuously experiment in today's world You know there are a lot more options and my daughter who's an attorney her they're right now in an era And it's the era of the drive-thru many Panera era It's my husband looked at that says wow, can you believe how much she spends on Panera? And I looked at him like he really never did get it that I did all that stuff. Did you? So be you know be ready to continuously evolve an experiment and then professionally as well In the statistics that I've read I've noted that women tend to leave the workforce After they have children so it seems like we we don't get our fair share into manufacturing and STEM careers Right coming out of school. I mean there are far too few But then once they get to be early 30s and you've got two careers and children and some people just is too much And they especially that if their husband does well, you know, then they back out and that's it You know they become stay-at-home moms, which is Perfectly fine. It's great and it's the right solution for some people but I'd encourage you if you're in that kind of situation where you think gosh I'm just not sure I can take any more think about the kind of options that we have in today's workforce And you may have to ask your employer about these but just if you can just hang in there You know take part-time for a while or job sharing or maybe a little bit of flexing of the schedules You know, I've I've found you know in our company, and I think the same is true for most You know employers are willing to work with an employee because they've put a lot of training and investment into you And if we can just get you through those tough years until your children get in school You know then you're able to over time continually give back So and just because you go do that for a while doesn't mean that you're on the mommy track You will be for a few years of course, you know, you're not going to get the plumbing assignments But my experience has been with women that I've worked with at Caterpillar In fact some of them be my friends They work part-time some of them even take that opportunity to go it they go get involved in a community One of them was became the president of the junior league as and finally your husband said okay You're working part-time and your president of the junior league So you're pretty much working full-time and then some why don't you just go back to work? And when she came back to work we pretty quickly promoted her to being a supervisor And that leadership experience she had in volunteering in the community really translated into work She was an excellent technical person when she left and then when she came back She was an excellent leader still is an excellent leader today