Career or Family?

It's har to make this decision. I'm still young but I'm thinking about this. I supose that I choose career for a short time and when I have a relative financial stability, I choose family. I think that family is the most important thing of my life, especially my parents.

Some people used to change from one job to another. The main goal is career growth. If they think that they can not go further in a certain company, then they should move and target a job that will suit for their career path. The family is separated with job per se concerns.

Hy euridicy! Its hard to speend some time with your fammily when you own a corporatio or smething like that. The reason is that the job ocyped all your time

hi People who focus only on attaining higher position in corporate ladder are successful because of their supporting spouse/ family. Why not think in these lines too? People fail to balance between the work and family. I left my babies with a baby sitter and they grew up there as I was not in a position to quit my job and my husband was in another town finishing on his project. It was hard but I did some adjustments (both at home and office) so my work is smooth and at home I got quality time. Today my kids are in teen & pre teen and I may happy with my career/position at the moment. If you have a new born, I sincerely wish you enjoy the parenthood for a while and take a break from your career.

Both.. I raised my son and works all his life. I wasnt able to be at home all the time with him. As Im a single mom. Im glad so far hes turned out good.

in present days career and family are both are important both are dependent if we chose for career then family will support for us. but sometime we think that career is most important but we need not to sacrifice for family we want sacrifice tha career only in my words

Of course there are but few. One must know how to balance career and family. Time management is utterly important here. Many parents left their young child at home with maids. When they came home, the child already fast asleep. And as time passed by fast, the child already a teenage and busy with their friends. Most career minded parents missed the fun part seeing their children learns to crawl, run and talk .. their first word However, I believe everything have its solution, be creative and you may enjoy both sides of the world!

I have choose career over my family since I am the bread winner who provides for the household. My job required me to travel intensively every month. I was only back to my family every alternate week. Later when I got my son, I try to be back every weekend, worrying that he might not recognise me. I am retired now, at least I have more time for him. We are closer now than ever.

I think we need a balance but knowing the difference of making that choice freely to expecting our happiness to come from the husband for example. Or foccusing in the family because the woman wants to not because she was asked. There are those women who have ambition and want to constroy a career, in that case she must listen to her heart or she'll be unhappy not fufilling her dreams.

Hi euridicy, this is only my point of view, many who have succeeded mentioned that time management is very important. At this age, technology are very useful. Many have to spend their time outside because they have to sit down and do meetings but if they use the video conferencing or skype actually they can save time and money. Though housework is time consuming but if you notice much of the things are all routine.

There are people who are successful with no families at all, like abandoned children. Since they don't have families they just focuses on their job and they really seek for success. But for some person who has a family it really takes sacrifices, i think you cannot maintain the balance between work and family.

I am also thinking of the same, but of course iwould always choose my family in a heartbeat. Because I can always have another career, but not another family in its truest sense. But when I think deep down to it, my family's the reason in the first place why I am inspired to work harder and to succeed. I want to be able to help out my family in their financial needs, to be able to showy parents that their sacrifices for me isn't in vain and that they can rest assure and not worry about me because I'm just doing fine. I think there should be a balance between the two. Our family's very important, so is career because whatever we earn out of it is what we sustain our family: food, healthcare, education, even time to spend with them by hiring helps.