Chapter Three. Weighing the Tradeoffs
I feel like my career is a marathon and they want me to sprint the entire way. I can’t seem to change my flexstyle even though I now have the freedom to do so and my family life situation has changed from when I started out in my career. Because I have always been a top performer, I probably could cut back a little, and no one at work would even notice, but it just isn’t working out. I tried to cut back after my second child. I had always been on the high potential list and received numerous “atta-girls” at work and before that at school, but I am still working way too much. Now that I have two kids under six and I am still working full time, I find that I am becoming overloaded on both work and family demands. ...
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