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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You cannot be a good mother and have a career. Sounds like you both have different priorities and it will never work. [/quote]

YOU can't but I can. [/quote]

I'm a lawyer and a mom, my coworkers are mostly lawyers and parents.  My kid's doing great at school, I manage my schedule so we spend lots of time together.  You can manage to do these things and anyone who claims it's impossible has an agenda.[/quote]

A little bit of flexibility is so helpful. When my kids were little, I was in banking with a lot of facetime, rear in seat and inflexible hours. It was awful for being the kind of mom I wanted to be. Life is long though and careers ebb and flow. I ended up doing some tax consulting so I still had my foot in the workplace. I think the key is to live below your means.[/quote]

+1.

It’s meaningless to say I am a mother with X career and this is how much time I spend with my family. Everything changes over time. Today, I have been a lawyer for 25 years and my children are close to flying the nest, and we live in a post-covid highly flexible world for many professionals.  I feel so happy and lucky right now.  But when my kids were small and I was still working my way up gaining career capital? And there was no flexibility? Honestly those were incredibly hard days. I don’t have an agenda as PP said. That comment fails to recognize all the various permutations of work and family.  Back then, something was suffering all the time and it was usually me.
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