5 Grown Men Vs. 1 Big Snake
Five years ago Sarah Hosseini had a great gig as a TV producer for a news station in Charlotte, North Carolina. She loved the work, and expected a continual -- and satisfying -- climb up the career ladder. So she never imagined that having a baby at 25 would forever change that trajectory. But that's exactly what happened. "I wanted to take a little time off for the birth of my child -- more than the three months of maternity leave my corporate job was willing to give me, but definitely less than a year," Hosseini, 30, recalls. When she asked her boss about possibly extending her maternity leave, or implementing partial work-from-home hours for a bit, she was met with a hard no -- it was all or nothing. Because her $30,000 salary would have been completely eaten up paying for full-time day care, Hosseini decided to quit her job.
