R: My sister has been saying for years now that I will make a lot of money later in life (the respondent is still studying now). Then I get the feeling that I really should life up to that expectation and it gives me the idea that I really should make a lot of money.
R: […] during the whole period of studies, I acted as a leader in various student organizations. I did… I was a project manager.
R: So practically I used to work in a shop selling cloth. The owner of that shop was a foreigner and since he was in the textile business he was often coming and going abroad to buy cloth anyway and he used to tell me 'in my absence you must manage my establishment'.
R: Of course, the subject of combining a motherhood and a career is very recent to me. Before choosing the field of my studies I always thought that being a civil servant is a perfect choice if someone wants to combine motherhood and career.
"I managed to ask President Obama at a Nato press conference; I had that advantage of having this special status as a young correspondent in a top position; but that was in B…But when the issue was to return to Austria, to the company..
R: And when I proved myself as a good economist, a couple of years passed – 3, 4, 5 years maybe; and they suggested that I can become the deputy director for the economic part.
“I was an intern at this newspaper, whose name I do not want to divulge, but it is widely read and probably one of the big quality papers and known for being conservative. Working there, I tested my limits. I thought that nothing really bad could happen.
R: Sometimes I notice that clients flirt with me. So I settle things once and for all, I don’t give cause for anything. You can…I’ve never been in a situation that…Well, yes…I remember. God, how bad I felt! How bad! I’d forgotten. I felt really bad. I was very innocent at that time, inexperienced.
R: (…) I work for a firm where there are approximately 200 employees out of which there are, let’s say, about 8-9 women, that is, there are a lot of men. This a research and innovation firm, so they, these men are highly qualified, very clever and intelligent. So… This is the situation.