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Originally Posted by eMOTIONal20
I would love to be there for my kids and be the mother I never really had, but it would conflict with my career ambitions. I'm not quite sure yet if I can have both in my life and be as successful as I want to be in my career and be a great mother.
However, if everything works out the way I want it to (yeah, right) then I would love to work from home (I want to be a therapist, have a huge house, my own practice, not too many "clients"), which would help with being a working mom. I would not be fulfilled just taking care of my kids everyday for 18+ years. The idea even makes me cringe sometimes. If I do have kids, I wouldn't want to until I'm like 35 (I'm 20 now).
This is tough, because I do believe being a stay-at-home mom would be more benficial for a child. I wish I could find a way to do both and figure out which (career or kids) was more important to me. I hope this becomes more clear to me in the next several years... before it's too late.
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Emotional20, you have said much of what I think - I LOVE being in the academic world, and want to get my Ph.D - been my dream for as long as I can remember. What has slowed me down was the same decision between career and family - I want both, and want them together. It takes time to have a baby, and I would want to BE there - and Amonkie only splits so many ways. I still haven't figured out whether this will resolve itself, or whether I will have to make a choice.