Career or Family? How a Woman Can Deal With The Sacrifice

As we move through the times, it is becoming more and more acceptable for women to have careers. In many more, open-minded and liberal cultures women are encouraged to study and work their way up the career ladder.

Building a long and fulfilling career can come with many sacrifices, and those of us who are true career girls are often faced with a hard choice. Career or Family?

In many cases, one can have both, but depending on the career choice, there are also many cases when it is incredibly difficult to juggle the two resulting in the need to make a choice. Here are some tips on how to deal with the sacrifice, should you find yourself have to make it.

Have a Heart-to-Heart With Yourself

Knowing exactly what you want and being one hundred percent sure that it is what you want come hell or high water is the only way to start. When faced with the decision to chose to have a family over a career, make sure that you work through all the options with yourself to be clear that the choice you are making is the best one for you and only you.

Remember at the end of it all you are the one who has to live with your choices, and when you get to the end of your road in life you want to look back knowing that you did the best for yourself, and you need to be happy and content with the choices you have made in your lifetime.

The Pros and Cons

Let us take a look at the pros and cons and make a list.

A Family Life and a Career Life Have Different Pros and Cons to Them Respectively

Having a family means sacrificing your freedom in many ways. How many mothers of young children have you heard saying how they haven’t slept through the night since before they fell pregnant, or they don’t remember the last time they went to the bathroom alone?

This is a reality of becoming a mother. You will no longer have much time alone, not at least until they are old enough to go to school. That’s just one example.

Make a list of the pros and cons of both a family and a career, compare them and decide which would be the best choice for you.

Ask Yourself if It is Really a Sacrifice For You Personally

To describe choosing a family over a career or vice versa is a very personal question and one that only you can answer for yourself. As mentioned above, have a good heart-to-heart with yourself.

It is not a sacrifice if you are doing what is best for you. If you are the kind of woman who has dreamed of a career all her life rather than of her wedding day, white picket fences and children running in the yard; then you are by no means sacrificing anything by choosing your career.