Great essay done with your brilliant satirical skills. I have long wondered about this topic. To oversimplify the life of white collar working adults, we all face choices over time that are choices between more money or more happiness. My observation over the years is that male egos and social conditioning push men to always emphasize decisions that lead to more money. Women, on the other hand, seem much more capable of balance - they are better at chasing financial security while pursuing more happiness as the real goal. My own life is evidence of this. My wife and I built our careers in advertising and media. I made more money but my wife had more family time. After my career at Yahoo! blew up, I became an independent consultant working mostly from home while my wife, knowing that I had the kids covered, made very ambitious decisions to take her career up a notch. I've done really well as a consultant but I have done much, much better at being a dad ever since this pivot in my life. But, I have made far less money than I would have if I went back into the ad agency world where seven figure compensation beckoned. I chose more happiness and within a few years, my wife was the one getting paid a whole lot more than I was. It had nothing to do with sexism and everything to do with our evolving roles in our family as parents and breadwinners.
Thanks for reading, Mark and for understanding what I was going for. We live in a time when one takes a risk even suggesting that men and women might naturally have different motivations and priorities in life. And those priorities might just manifest in a world that looks unequal if we aren't willing to dig a little deeper.
While male bashing can still be fun at cocktail hour, my experience has shown that gap can be closed if women would just find the freedom and expertise to #beasmartask.
Long live comedy, satire, tongue in cheek and not canceling. Keep it up Ollinger! Loved the convo with the Yale Prof who was over served at the academic bar.
Great essay done with your brilliant satirical skills. I have long wondered about this topic. To oversimplify the life of white collar working adults, we all face choices over time that are choices between more money or more happiness. My observation over the years is that male egos and social conditioning push men to always emphasize decisions that lead to more money. Women, on the other hand, seem much more capable of balance - they are better at chasing financial security while pursuing more happiness as the real goal. My own life is evidence of this. My wife and I built our careers in advertising and media. I made more money but my wife had more family time. After my career at Yahoo! blew up, I became an independent consultant working mostly from home while my wife, knowing that I had the kids covered, made very ambitious decisions to take her career up a notch. I've done really well as a consultant but I have done much, much better at being a dad ever since this pivot in my life. But, I have made far less money than I would have if I went back into the ad agency world where seven figure compensation beckoned. I chose more happiness and within a few years, my wife was the one getting paid a whole lot more than I was. It had nothing to do with sexism and everything to do with our evolving roles in our family as parents and breadwinners.
Thanks for reading, Mark and for understanding what I was going for. We live in a time when one takes a risk even suggesting that men and women might naturally have different motivations and priorities in life. And those priorities might just manifest in a world that looks unequal if we aren't willing to dig a little deeper.
While male bashing can still be fun at cocktail hour, my experience has shown that gap can be closed if women would just find the freedom and expertise to #beasmartask.
Long live comedy, satire, tongue in cheek and not canceling. Keep it up Ollinger! Loved the convo with the Yale Prof who was over served at the academic bar.
thanks, JJ. yeah, Daniel Markovits' cv is bananas.
Younger women without kids now make more than men of the same age. This is largely because they are graduating college at much higher rates.