How have you balanced career and family in your life?
How have you balanced career and family in your life?
Not sure how many people are subscribed to this community, but I think there’s a few of us out there!
I think every woman is forced to grapple with this question as they enter adulthood. What has been your experience? Did you change your priorities at any point?
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I’ll add in my own thoughts! One thing is that I personally plan to only have 1 child for exactly this purpose. It feels like a “best of both worlds” - I can experience motherhood with the least amount of downtime in my own career.
This was one of the decisions I made too. I’m so happy with it - my kid is amazing, and I feel like we have enough both time and resources to create the kind of childhood I’d want my kid to have. And I still have had the energy to prioritize my career to the extent I wanted.
We have had to ignore quite a few negative comments over the years, about how our kid will be lonely or kids simply must have siblings. And the cliche about how only-children are selfish. Luckily it seems to haven gotten less and our kid has gotten a bit older.