Published Mar 28, 2009
173 Pages
6.14 x 9.21 Black & White Paperback
Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Being successful does not mean being perfect or having the perfect life. It’s about having the best life for you. From the start of this project I realized that many women lead lives vastly different from my own. Many lead compartmentalized lives and some lead successful non-traditional lives. In the course of my research, I chose to concentrate on five areas of success: marriage, family, career, spirituality and having it all. These five areas were just a few ways women could define their success but by no means were they exhaustive. If you are looking for inspiration or to just feel great about being a successful woman turning thirty, take a look at the every day women featured inside the pages to come. I hope you learn from them as I have.
"Is this Fear? (from Chapter 2)
Before I started this project, I was twenty-eight and my sister, who
was thirty-two, commented that thirty was just around the corner.
“Don’t you ever want to get married?” she asked. I looked at her
blankly, but she continued, “You have a hard enough time finding a
man now; it’ll be even worse when you’re thirty.” I first wanted to tell
her that we lived in two different states and spoke rarely so she had
no idea what my dating habits were. Instead I reminded myself that
she had been married for a decade, with three kids and a career she
loved. She expected I wanted the same life. Instead of worrying about
defending myself I began to think about why she made the comment.
I wasn’t worried about thirty, but I decided to check out what the
big deal was. Then I found the number of books that deal with aging.
I was bombarded on the internet by weblogs full of complaints and
warnings about thirty. After a few days of research I got the impression
that thirty was the end of the world as we know it for hundreds
of people. Computers allowed the woe-is-me writers to be found with
just a few clicks. I started to wonder about my life. Should I be questioning
my life choices like so many of my peers appeared to be?
Soon my common sense and outrage surfaced."
