Do women have to make sacrifices to have a successful career?
Being a married woman in my 30’s, I am faced with the difficult decisions of creating life balance and starting a family. I will definitely have to make sacrifices in my career so that I can accomplish these personal goals. Right now I spend 90% of my energy on my career and I really don’t have room for much else. I will eventually have to drop that to 50% so that I can live a more balanced life. It doesn’t mean that my career will stop being successful, it just means that the ways I define success in my career will have to change. Is there any way to have children and still be on an “executive track?” How do you go about doing this? This is the biggest challenge I will be facing in the next few years. I brought a dog into my life so that I could begin to understand some of the issues involved in the care and feeding of something besides myself. I take her to work every day but have so little time to interact with her. When I don’t spend at least an hour of quality time with her a day
