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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also mommy-tracked myself.  I believe I will be happier in the long run.

Everything I've read suggests that family is the right emotional choice in the long run.  Unless you're a fairly emotionless, materialistic person.

I am sorry I didn't fulfill my potential to rise levels.  But I gave it up to ensure financial stability and pleasant living circumstances while my kids were growing up.  Ambition involves taking career risk.  I am responsible for 60% of my family's HHI.

Looking back, I realize I did make choices with knowledge of the consequences and I need to continue to be confident in my decision.  I was laid off right after maternity leave with DC#2 and that was a setback I have never recovered from.  I always remember that your kids love you but your employer doesn't really care.  Almost all of us are replaceable within a short period of time.[/quote]

Wait, does the ambition/emotionless thing apply to men, too? [/quote]

PP.  Yes it does apply to men.  Look at books about the elderly and what their sources of happiness and regrets are.

High-status corporate men are not immune to figuring out that they are rich nobodies after they retire.  And that they prioritized the wrong things.

There are a lot of ways to handle raising children but if you are not present and emotionally connected during the 0-12th grade years, it's not going to change in later life.

I had a male executive boss who told me that his male mentor said: "The impact of any of us leaving the (F500) company is like pulling your hand out of a bucket of water".

As social roles change, it's more okay for men to admit to themselves what they might have waited until retirement to decide in the past.

Only some people agree with "He who dies with the most toys, wins".

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