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Celeb News: Working Mom drags G. Paltrow for office job comment
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Working Mom drags G. Paltrow for office job comment
Recently separated actress and life style guru Gwyneth Paltrow gave an interview to E! News about her plans for 2014 and had this to say about balancing working and home life:
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The 41-year-old Hollywood A-lister also explained how it's trickier to maintain her film career now that her children are getting older.
"It's much harder for me. I feel like I set it up in a way that makes it difficult because…for me, like if I miss a school run, they are like, 'Where were you?' I don't like to be the lead so I don't [have] to work every day, you know, I have little things that I like and obviously I want it to be good and challenging and interesting and be with good people and that kind of thing."
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She added, "I think it's different when you have an office job, because it's routine and, you know, you can do all the stuff in the morning and then you come home in the evening. When you're shooting a movie, they're like, 'We need you to go to Wisconsin for two weeks,' and then you work 14 hours a day and that part of it is very difficult. I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it's not like being on set."
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http://www.eonline.com/news/525210/g...us-on-her-kids
Of course the comment was received negatively, especially by working moms. This one wrote an open letter to Gwyneth.
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Dear Gwyneth,
I really enjoyed your recent comments to E! about how easy an office job is for parents, compared to the grueling circumstances of being on a movie set. “I think it’s different when you have an office job, because it’s routine and, you know, you can do all the stuff in the morning and then you come home in the evening,” you said. “When you’re shooting a movie, they’re like, ‘We need you to go to Wisconsin for two weeks,’ and then you work 14 hours a day, and that part of it is very difficult. I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it’s not like being on set.”
As a mother of a toddler, I couldn’t agree more!
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We’re always gabbing about how easy it is to balance work and home life. Whenever I meet with them at one of our weekly get-togethers — a breeze to schedule, because reliable baby sitters often roam my neighborhood in packs, holding up signs peddling their services — we have a competition to see who has it easier. Is it the female breadwinners who work around the clock to make sure their mortgages get paid, lying awake at night, wracked with anxiety over the idea of losing their jobs? Or is it the mothers who get mommy-tracked and denied promotions? What about the moms with “regular” 9-to-5 jobs, who are penalized when their kids are sick and they don’t have backup child care?
Those women are living the dream, I tell you!
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You mentioned in your E! interview that when someone has an office job, “You know you can do all the stuff in the morning,” and that hit the nail on the head. As someone with an office job, my mornings are obviously pretty leisurely. Sometimes I even have time to drink half of my coffee before it gets cold! After my 6 a.m. wake-up, I have a lot of time to loll around, hopping in the shower and then throwing makeup on my face, hoping that I’ll have enough time to put my tights on before my son starts crying in his crib. Then, when he does start crying, I have to make the decision: Do I get fully dressed, or do I go tend to him with my hair still dripping wet? Talk about being spoilt for choice!
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So, Gwyneth, you’ve figured out the secret of working parents everywhere: Livin’ la vida desk job is a breeze compared to the 14-hour days of a film set. Fourteen hours? Who in New York — especially those in the finance, law and tech professions — could possibly work 14 whole hours?
Luckily, those 9-to-5 “ordinary job” hours grow on trees here.
And if you lose one, all you have to do is find another.
Yours,
Mackenzie
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Full letter at the link:
http://nypost.com/2014/03/27/a-worki...yneth-paltrow/
So what do you guys think? Being on a movie set and working on one movie per year is really harder than having a regular, 9 to 5 job?
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Not really, plus she is rich and was the wife of one of the most acclaimed living rockstars. How hard 
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Damn they scalped ha! 
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Why does it even matter though? It's kind of annoying when working mothers complain about how hard it is to balance both like they're looking for pats on the back or something. Nobody made your ass have kids.
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She never said there weren't challenges  Why do people hyper-dissect everything she says and try to make her look bad?
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When will she learn....
It seems like everything she says tends to come back and bite her in the ass.
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ugh she says some things lol....
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Gwyneth has always been a spoiled ****, so nothing else is new
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So, Gwyneth, you’ve figured out the secret of working parents everywhere: Livin’ la vida desk job is a breeze compared to the 14-hour days of a film set. Fourteen hours? Who in New York — especially those in the finance, law and tech professions — could possibly work 14 whole hours?
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nnnnnn drag 
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It's like she lives in a different world and her comments most of the time come from a place of absolute disgust with whoever can't afford her lifestyle.
I mean, she said herself she only works once a year and says the regularity of an office job is easier to juggle than a movie set? 
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Drag ha Mackenzie!
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Damn they scalped ha! |
Dragged for filth. 
Gwyneth's juicy jeans Europe quote tho >>>
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To be fair, some actors have to be on set for 16-18 hours and aren't able to take care of their children or to do errands.
But at least Gwen can afford day care or a nanny to take/pick-up children and clean house.
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Originally posted by KingOfTheCastle
To be fair, some actors have to be on set for 16-18 hours and aren't able to take care of their children or to do errands.
But at least Gwen can afford day care or a nanny to take/pick-up children and clean house.
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For, like, a month or two. Then the paycheck is cashed and it's back to doing nothing.
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She never said there weren't challenges Why do people hyper-dissect everything she says and try to make her look bad? |
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She knew she made a boo boo as soon as she said it 
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nnn 
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Originally posted by KingOfTheCastle
To be fair, some actors have to be on set for 16-18 hours and aren't able to take care of their children or to do errands.
But at least Gwen can afford day care or a nanny to take/pick-up children and clean house.
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Even still, the work is sitting around or acting while other people cater to your every need.
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Welp! She got dragged thoroughly.
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