Career women, do you regret it ?

Wife_and_Mama · 2025-12-04T02:03:11+00:00

My mother wanted to be a mother and a wife early on. She had me at 22, but when her marriage fell apart, she often told me she regretted not having built something for herself first and wished that I would study and “protect myself” through education and independence. Her experience deeply shaped my choices. She did not remarry (yet).

There's a pretty big range, here. If you want to be a medical doctor, I'd suggest speaking to female medical doctors, not just "career women." You can be a career woman and work 8-5. That's less likely as an actual doctor. If you decide you don't want to dedicate so much of your life to building a career, you can also choose from several different tiers, such as nurse practitioner or physician's assistant.

Personally, I spent only seven years in college and I'm not totally sure it was worth it. I loved my career, until a pandemic hit, along with back-to-back IVF cycles, the death of my mother, and my own near death delivering twins. Once it was time to leave those babies in the care of someone else, I just didn't care anymore. My mother died at 60, having been an educated working mom and career woman. If I die at 60, I want to know I spent my years the way I wanted. I left my career. I've never regretted it. I have a teaching certificate that I'll use to reenter the workforce. Generally speaking, I think I could have stopped there with the four year degree. That doesn't mean I wish I hadn't gone to school, but maybe that I hadn't devoted so much time, energy, and my entire identity to it.

Ok-Journalist7629 · 2025-12-04T07:10:19+00:00

I know a doctor w 3 kids and one w 5 kids and they both have stay at home dads. I am also aware of a few Dr/Dr couples that have nannies. My friend had to argue to get taken off 24 hr rotations when she was pregnant as a resident and they didn't do it untill she was second trimester and visibly pregnant. It's hard, life is hard, choose your hard.

Meeting someone and fostering a relationship while in medical school does sound challenging as well, but both of those ladies me heir husbands at that time.

ChallengeIcy4676 · 2025-12-04T15:17:03+00:00

I’m a female doctor — myself and the majority of my friends from medical school/residency went on to get married and have kids. The medical field in today’s world is a lot more flexible than it used to be decades ago. Many of my friends have decided to go part-time or take time off from the medical field as needed while the kids are young. However, it actually pays off to have worked so hard early on to have such a stable career for the rest of your life. Of course this may be speciality-dependent, but in my current job in primary care, I only work the days and hours I want to for my current employer. Keep in mind that even if I needed to pay all the bills myself, I wouldn’t even need to work much per year. I think this is a major advantage of this type of career as a female.

Retired401 · 2025-12-04T03:12:42+00:00

This is a tough one. So I'll say ... yes and no. This is a long answer. Apologies.

My mother died when I was very small, and I was not close to my stepmother at all. But she raised me and my two stepsisters to achieve and earn and told us to never depend on a man to survive, etc.

Probably because she got such a raw deal when she got divorced and then compounded it by marrying my father, who was just a lazy anchor that dragged her down all her life. He stopped working before he even turned 50 -- he quit with three kids in college, no less. (Not that my parents paid for any of it, but they helped out a little here and there.)

He never worked again, but he didn't take good care of his health and he had five heart attacks and capped that off with a stroke the day before my stepmother finally retired at age 73.

Against all odds and like a cruel joke, he is still alive 6 years later. He is partly paralyzed, can't walk or go to the bathroom on his own, pretty much can't do anything for himself but moan and complain about how hard his life is. Well my stepmother never even got to be retired for a single day ... she went from working full-time her whole life to being a full-time caretaker for an ungrateful man who was a shitty husband and father.

I tell you all that because life can be cruel and turn out in ways you don't expect despite the best-laid plans.

I have noticed over the past 5 to 10 years a greatly decreased tolerance for risk-taking among young people. Which is so odd because pretty much before current times, young people were the ones taking most of the risks. But it almost feels like young people who grew up with the spotlight of social media on them and their lives are afraid to "mess up."

But messing up is part of life. It's how we ALL learn. If you never make any mistakes, not only will your life be boring, but you won't learn much either. As the saying goes, ships are safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are built for.

The very best thing you can do for yourself, from my perspective at age 52 and postmenopause, is to cultivate your own resilience.

Because things are going to happen in your life that are not going to work out the way you want them to, no matter how carefully you try to plan and execute and cover every possible base. They just will because that's life. Life is not fair, and you need to be resilient so you can roll with it and not let challenges defeat you.

All that said, in hindsight I'm glad I worked really hard when I was young. I married the wrong man the first time around at age 30, but I got a wonderful son out of that. My divorce cost me dearly financially because of course I ended up marrying a man who was a lot like my father, sigh.

I'm with the right man now, someone I met more than 30 years ago at college. We had one class together for one semester and never dated, but he was secretly in love with me (I had no idea). And he never forgot me.

Through a weird twist of fate, we ended up both living in the same state more than 1000 miles away from that college. He poked around online, found out I was divorced, contacted me and we have been together now for more than 12 years. We have been through a lot together. And it's me who hasn't wanted to remarry.

He is the hard-working, respectable, responsible, sensitive, loving, intelligent, brave and very masculine man I always dreamed of but didn't think existed. He's not hard to look at either, but he is bald and short and works what is considered a blue-collar job. I adore him, he adores me, and we are those gross "old" people who still hold hands and kiss when we go out, lol.

Sometimes I think about how different my life could have turned out if we had been together since we were young. I shouldn't because it's water under the bridge, but I do.

I trust him to the ends of the Earth and I know that he would never try to screw me over the way my ex-husband did.

He is retiring next year and then I will need to decide how much longer I can stick it out at the job I hate so I can finish paying for my share of my son's college tuition.

Then the real test comes because we will be living together for the first time in all these years. I'm going to trust him to provide for me financially and to not let me down.

I practically get hives when I think about it. I tell myself he's not like other men I have been with and that he would literally die before he would take anything that he didn't earn. I know that in my heart of hearts, since his ex-wife was loaded and he didn't take a dollar from her even though he could have taken half of everything the way my husband did to me.

But I would be lying if I said I was not afraid to put all my eggs in someone else's basket. For reasons I won't get into, I have never trusted anyone easily. I have only ever relied on myself. So the idea of doing what feels like handing over my life to someone else who will at least partially help steer it is terrifying to me. I wish I didn't feel that way, but I do.

He will have a substantial income in retirement. We won't be rich, but we will have enough. And he knows my retirement funds are mine and he would never dream of touching them.

Because I have built my own resilience through a lot of trial and error throughout my life, I have weathered some incredibly difficult challenges over the years. Things that would have broken less resilient women. I just keep going. Especially when you are someone's mom, that's just what you do.

Other than building your own resilience and learning to roll with things that happen so you can pop back up and keep going, please know that who you choose to marry is one of the most important decisions you will ever make in your life. So don't make that decision lightly.

Please do things like intensive premarital counseling even if you decide to marry someone you have dated or lived with for a very long time. Have the hard conversations about things like money before you get legally and spiritually entangled and before you have children together.

Once you have kids, the person you choose as the other parent of your child will be in your life for 18 years at a minimum and usually a lot longer. That's a lonnnnnggggg time. And the way you and your spouse treat each other is the single most important way that any children you have will learn what love and marriage look like.

So be as sure as you can that you choose someone who is genuine and stable and hardworking and who shares the same values as you. Almost more important than valuing the same things, you should hate the same things. I know how weird that sounds, but it really is true. Don't compromise on your values because you are afraid to lose someone who appears to be a good candidate for a husband.

Sometimes I feel like the last 25 years of my life flew by. It doesn't feel like it when you are going through difficult days, of course. But now that I have fewer days ahead of me than I have behind me, I am much more deliberate about how I spend my time and who I spend it with.

I hope that was helpful. I know it was kind of a lot.

InevitableKiwi5776 · 2025-12-04T04:39:04+00:00

I don’t regret working because it was never a question of needing to support myself after graduating. Both my parents always worked and both grandmothers always worked. Their mothers worked too either in a job or on the farm. And they all had families.

I ended up not having any children for other reasons but having a career had nothing to do with it. Every mother I am acquainted with except one has some kind of job.

I did choose not to attempt a high stress career because I decided I wanted a peaceful lower stress life. I had worked in a law office for a few years thinking I’d go to law school, but ended up in research administration at a university which to me is low stress.

I think if you can’t imagine being a doctor and having a family then look for a different path that you can imagine doing with a family. Ask married female doctors about their lives and their path. I’d be surprised if many said they felt they couldn’t do that and have a family but who knows, maybe it’s more of an issue than I am aware.

SeriousMaintenance76 · 2025-12-04T03:17:01+00:00

No regrets. At all. I have a career. It is not my life at all. You can have a career and still lead a fulfilling life outside of it.

AngelFire_3_14156 · 2025-12-04T03:17:02+00:00

I had a successful career and I voluntarily left it to be a SAHM after our second child was born. I don't regret that I had a career and I don't regret that I left it either.

ArkNemesis00 · 2025-12-04T13:57:31+00:00

I do not have a career.

I spent my whole childhood wanting to become an obstetrician and was choosing programs to shave time off the 4 years of pre-med, 4 years of medical school, and ~5 years of residency.

Eventually I realized even if I could work hard and finish in my late twenties, it didn't make financial sense to take on all that debt just to then work a small amount of time before hopefully becoming a SAHM to my family. I wanted the family more than the job, and they weren't really compatible, so I pivoted to a bachelor's and aimed for no debt.

You're a bit further along in your career path, you don't mention having an LTR, nor do you state you want to be a SAHM, so the answer is likely different for you. Perhaps consider a residency/speciality that would more easily allow for part-time hours or a generous maternity leave if you want the flexibility without giving up what you've built so far, such as a shared pediatric or general family medicine practice.

Antique_Mountain_263 · 2025-12-04T02:12:51+00:00

I also went to college and started my career for a bit before I quit at age 25 to have my first baby (I’m 33 now). I was in accounting and I did it solely for the money. It was not rewarding to me in any way.

I think there is a big difference if you plan to work as a doctor, surgeon, teacher etc. Careers that are meaningful to you and to the community (especially if they pay well) will make it more worthwhile to go back. Also, medical jobs often have more flexibility. Even as a doctor, you could do tele-health, work at a clinic with limited hours, etc. It really depends on the specialty you go into.

Many doctors also marry other doctors or surgeons. I also know several women lawyers who are married to blue collar men. They definitely earn less, but they are hands on dads, helpful around the house (they cook/clean), and still just as masculine. The women are career oriented but still feminine and beautiful, had children, etc.

At your age, I definitely would have my eyes open for husband prospects. Do not write off all men or dating right now. Even though you’re busy, your 20s is the best time to meet your future husband. Couples who marry in their late 20s/early 30s have the lowest divorce rates. So you are still on track for that!

Such-Tangerine2673 · 2025-12-04T18:40:31+00:00

I have a friend who is an anesthesiologist who is the most happy, fulfilled and relaxed mom I’ve ever met. You can be a doctor and have a predictable, flexible schedule that allows you to be a present mom, you just need to choose your specialty/path wisely. For example I would suspect trying to be a present, involved mom while an ER doctor (especially residency) would be hell, meanwhile you could be a dermatologist and comfortably work 7-3 4 days a week.

Ok_Outside149 · 2025-12-04T23:24:07+00:00

To be honest. I find the career/mother dichotomy to be something greatly exaggerated online. Most mothers are working. I don’t think it’s easy being a working mother, but most women are doing it somehow.

I think unless you want to be a really high flying career woman like leadership in a big 4 company, you can probably juggle motherhood and a career. Even then, plenty of women do it. Did you know the female president of the European Commission has seven children? (I’m sure she had a lot of hired help though)

I’ve heard people say “you can have it all… just not at the same time” which sounds true to me. There’ll be times where work will have to take the backseat and you lose earning potential, and there’ll be times where you have to miss a school event and it breaks your heart. But such is life. Every path you take leaves another one untrodden. We just have to make the choices we can live with

mistressusa · 2025-12-04T03:13:57+00:00

My daughter (25) grew up dreaming of becoming a doctor. She changed her mind her senior year in college, after completing all premed required courses plus hundreds of hours of volunteering, TA, research and published papers. The reason ? She wanted a family more. More than the number of years required, it was the fact that she’d have very little control over her location that deterred her. So instead she got a job working for a big healthcare company. It’s been 3.5 years and no regrets. She makes low $100k in a career with very good potential and she lives with her boyfriend whom she plans to marry in the next two years.

I think it’s absolutely necessary for women to have the ability to make a living but there are many ways to do so without sacrificing so much of your prime years.

Luscious-Grass · 2025-12-04T10:25:28+00:00

I (41 y/o mom of 2 working remotely in tech) live in a university town with a large academic health center which means socially we are friends with many male and female doctors and other medical professionals, and I’ve really seen the full range of combinations.

It seems like healthcare offers a lot of options that can be family friendly down the line (can do part time hours as a radiologist, dermatologist, etc), which is amazing!

A mindset of flexibility is key. When you have a family (even if you are a man) it’s not about ego and personal career dreams at the center anymore, it’s just not. It’s about the bigger thing you are creating together with your husband.

When you date, don’t position things about yourself or your career as rigid and set in stone because that is a turnoff for good reason. It’s also naive!

It’s fantastic that you are doing this hard thing now that will offer you and your future family a plethora of options as you go through life.

As long as you don’t lead with ego and rigidity, there is no reason you won’t be able to meet a great man and have a family.

CotaBean · 2025-12-04T13:13:57+00:00

I regret it because I do better than most men including my husband, and now I’m the breadwinner …

Technical_Cupcake597 · 2025-12-04T03:01:42+00:00

Yes I regret it. I hate working. HATE IT. I love teaching but I regret every second of it. I know thats a total contradiction but that’s where im at.

ok-firefighter2266 · 2025-12-04T16:35:24+00:00

I work in healthcare and have a private practice. I’ve never regretted my career for one second. The beginning is extremely hard but worth it because now it gives me a lot of flexibility.

Numerous_Working_853 · 2025-12-04T05:57:53+00:00

Yes I do. Everyday. But then I look at the dignity I have preserved by not having to ask my husband for money and then it becomes bearable. But I do really long for a relationship where I am the caregiver and my husband is the provider. And I know it won't happen in this lifetime

austenholic · 2025-12-04T13:38:46+00:00

Okay, I'm the child of two very successful (very busy) people with my mother being the doctor. So I can give some insight from the child side of things (also parents come from a very culturally conservative upbringing)

Does she regret it? No. Was it hard? Very much so.

From what I've seen and experienced, sometimes your career needs to take a backseat. 3 years to a kid is HUGE compared to an adult so you need to take that into consideration. From the begining, you would need to acknowledge that becoming a full fledged doctor may take longer than you would like. I'm not too sure about the system of where you're from, but here in Australia, you can do your fellowship at part time hours, so that's what a lot of people did so they would have more time for their families. It just meant that becoming a specialist took longer. I wish the brutal life of medicine was more supportive towards family building tho.

Also what really made a difference was my dad. In my household, eventhough my mum was the nurturer and took on a lot of the traditional duties, my dad was in charge of all of us, so the "man of the house" so to speak. So he was the emergency contact for my brother and me. Schooling, extracurriculars, doctors appointments etc, my dad took responsibility of it all. My parents shared domestic labour and my mother was my dad's safe space. Obviously, this is def reliant on your and your partner's personality, I'm not as submissive as my mother lmao too much like my father for that but their dynamic is something I like to use as inspiration.

Good luck girlie!!! The life of medicine is a long one and make sure you know if you'll enjoy each step. I'm applying into med in a few years so I'll be older than you now (literally 27 then 😭) and probably be worrying about the same things as you.

Rare_Psychology_8853 · 2025-12-06T16:39:06+00:00

I don’t regret it but I’m glad I was in a position to be able to pivot. In my country you can rack up a lot of student loans for your career and then have to work to pay them off. Stay out of debt as much as possible and you will have options. Debt robs you of your freedom and choice.

jennerator543 · 2025-12-04T10:47:04+00:00

I had a career and worked at a very high level after putting in a LOT of work and graduating from a top uni. And spent years building my career, working my way up the ladder, networking, conferences, training etc.

I loved it at the time and it has given me skills to fall back on should I / we ever need to in the future. And it gave us a great financial start in life.

I don’t regret it at all.

I’m now a housewife in a very traditional relationship, my husband works and provides for us both and he is the head of the house. He makes the rules. He was also incredibly supportive of my wanting us to transition to this and me stopping working and now I find this lifestyle very fulfilling, plus we are trying for our first child.

I don’t regret either part of my life but I know I would have regretted not having my career first. I also know that while my husband is doing great and keeping us in a really good lifestyle nobody knows what the future will hold and if he were injured and couldn’t work or god forbid anything worse while our life insurance etc would take care of a lot it would not provide for me for a full lifetime in some scenarios so having this skillset is so important to me

Extra_Newspaper5440 · 2025-12-04T12:26:34+00:00

I was an airline pilot before I got married. I don't regret it at all. It gave me so much experience and it was also really fun. I quit my job soon after I got married and now I'm a SAHM. But I also have my "degree" and my previous experience if someday I need to go back to work. Go ahead with your medical school! You can always quit and be a homemaker in the future.

vintagegirlgame · 2025-12-04T05:16:05+00:00

My mom is a doctor. My father too. She very much bought the “you can have it all” idea of the 80s career woman. She had me when still in residency and thought she could just go right back to work. But I refused the bottle and she even got in trouble with the nanny bringing me to the staff room to nurse. And when I smiled bigger for the nanny than for her, she quit her residency and became a SAHM. She had 4 kids and was an amazing mom, homeschooled us many years too. She sometimes took up part time work in the ER. But eventually when the nest was getting empty she changed to Integrative Medicine and restarted her career.

She def sacrificed a lot for us bc she was in a very competitive residency and would have had a very strong career. I think she somewhat resented my dad for being able to keep his career intact… he’s now retired while she’s still working a lot. She divorced him when I was in highschoool tho bc she was unhappy. I’m sure she got a fair amount in the divorce, but she was never financially savvy and made poor investments, otherwise I’m sure she’d be much better off financially.

I was on the pre-med path as well all thru undergrad and even taking the MCATS. But what stuck with me is that she chose her family in the end and that’s what I chose when I did a 180 and abandoned all my pre-med investments. My mom told me that all the women doctors she knew had to make a choice, and those who chose to delay having a family because of their career ended up childless and quite sad about it. She doesn’t know any women doctors who did manage to “have it all” in the end.

Big_Rain4564 · 2025-12-04T14:50:18+00:00

I don’t think you will ever regret education but I do think that for most women the ultimate vocation is marriage and motherhood.

AnonTheGreat01 · 2025-12-05T09:35:20+00:00

I broke it off with a woman who was 1 year farther along with her medicine study than you are, not that long ago, actually.

The way I see it, (one of) the points of having a decent education and good pay as a result from that as a woman is that you'll always have a plan B.

That's what women didn't have 50 years ago. So when their husband became lazy/abusive/cheated etc. they did not really have the ability (leverage) to walk away easily. Completely dependent on the guy.

That said, for most women, I don't think working long hours in a high stress environments is conducive to one's happiness/well-being. Although there are women wired like that, it's probably less than 5%.

Now, about my personal experience and how that relates to yourself; My ex was in med school and very passionate about becoming a doctor. It had been her calling since she was a little girl. While I very much enjoyed how passionate she was about her work, how much medical information she possessed and that she would always tell entertaining stories about what happened during her day with colleagues/patients, what really started getting to me were her hours. Hearing alarm clocks at 6AM or sometimes even earlier is pretty bad when you only have to get up at 7-8AM yourself. Especially because I'm not only a bad sleeper, but both her and I liked staying up late (think going to bed 12-1AM). The thought of her having evening/night shifts to me seemed very bad, not only because it would disrupt my sleep schedule even more, but also because we'd get much less time spent together + the logistics of taking care of the children will suck.

This was not the reason I ended things, but I'll tell you this much; I don't miss those aspects/future aspects of that relationship at all. To the contrary. Again, just my opinion. We talked about these things and she would always say that all doctors deal with this but she was pretty dismissive of how that would affect a partner who was not directly involved in that life themselves.

Furthermore, I'll say this much; for her becoming a doctor was non-negotiable because that's all she had ever wanted. And I was happy for her and would never try taking that away. But I think that if it's just about a job/career to you and the safety of that, you've chosen the wrong path. Because not only becoming a doctor requires many sacrifices, being one will keep on requiring sacrifices. Unless of course you chose to become a GP or something that has more reliable hours and less stress.

Just_curious4567 · 2025-12-12T15:44:36+00:00

This is anecdotal, but all the women md’s I know, they all met their husbands during medical school, residency, or before. The ones that stayed single during medical school and residency… stayed single. (I’m in my 40’s)

If you want to be a stay at home mom, there’s not a better place to meet a husband than medical school!

I would also recommend going into a specialty that doesn’t take a lot of call.

My neighbor is a pediatrician and she only works 3 days a week.

Jenneapolis · 2025-12-04T16:22:03+00:00

I don't regret my career but I also just got married at 42 and don't have kids so that may make my opinion irrelevant to you. I always wanted to be able to provide for myself financially as we worried about money growing up and the freedom my finances has given me has been wonderful. I feel truly blessed to have been given everything I have. This is not a diss to anyone else's life choices but I'm very happy with mine. If you have more specific questions, I'm happy to answer.

CameraActual8396 · 2025-12-04T02:18:47+00:00

Not at all. The thing is 50% of relationships end in divorce. Maybe slightly more or less but the odds aren't great. A career wiIl support you for LIFE.

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Title: Career women, do you regret it ?

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Full text: I know pursuing a demanding career can sometimes conflict with pursuing a family and the man that comes with it. I’m a 24F medical student with a good 4–5 years still ahead of me. I know for certain that I want to be a doctor, but I also absolutely want to be a wife, a mother, and to build my own family.

My mother wanted to be a mother and a wife early on. She had me at 22, but when her marriage fell apart, she often told me she regretted not having built something for herself first and wished that I would study and “protect myself” through education and independence. Her experience deeply shaped my choices. She did not remarry (yet).

Now, however, I find myself worrying that my career choice might actually make things harder for me in the long run when it comes to marriage and motherhood. Sometimes I wonder if I should have chosen something less demanding.

I would really appreciate hearing from women who actually live this reality now — whether you’re single, married, childless, or a mom.

Was it worth it?

Did your career make forming a family harder?

Do you regret any part of it, or not at all?

I’m genuinely trying to learn from real experiences as I think about the life I want to build.

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SunRose42 · 2025-12-10T15:20:59+00:00

Hmm, I don’t regret it yet, but I might one day. I’m in academia and am still early career. Like you, I want to be a wife and mother one day. Unlike you, my career of choice, while very fulfilling and grad school’s intrinsically worthwhile etc. etc., stable jobs are incredibly difficult to get. Doesn’t help that my man is also an academic 😅

So I don’t know. If things go sour in this relationship, or neither of us is able to find a stable job, I might end up regretting it. But I also know I would’ve regretted not going to grad school my whole life (and like my mom before me, would’ve had this sad sense of lost potential I never lived up to). So kind of hard to say!

As others have pointed out, I think you’re in a pretty good position in the sense that once this thing is done, assuming you choose your specialty well, you should have a stable income and a lot of flexibility over how much you work.

thefeistypineapple · 2026-01-06T21:21:13+00:00

Honestly? No. But my experience is probably the outlier.

I was raised in a Traditional, fundamental evangelical environment to teen parents whose mom worked full time. I went to the same private school ran by the church. My family had deep roots in this church so generations of my mother’s side had been in this church. I graduated from the same private school in high school, church planter, even did international mission trips. My entire upbringing surrounded being a wife and Mom.

Yet even as a teenager, I always wanted to go to school and have a career. Those careers always changed but the desire never did. I also just assumed I would also get married and have kids.

The career I have now is vastly different than the one I thought when I was a teenager. I am married and we don’t have kids. That’s where the main change has happened for me. I felt a deep anxiety about having kids. Kept thinking “okay a few more years” or “Down the line.” But when I stopped to ask myself if I truly wanted kids, I couldn’t answer. All my life, I was told to have kids that I never stopped to ask if it was what I truly wanted.

I love kids. I love working with kids (volunteering in the past). But for myself? Not really. The desire isn’t there and I firmly believe children should be 100% wanted. Having a career didn’t change that. It was something I always wanted and have been very blessed to have a partner that has always supported and pushed me to keep going as far as I can. I guess that’s really what changed it for me: knowing that I had a relationship that gave me the security to choose what I actually wanted vs what I was told my whole life to want.

My mom always wanted kids. She knew from a young age she wanted kids lol not as early as she had them but being a mom was something she always wanted. She’s a good one too, in spite of all the snarky Moms that judged her for being a young mom who worked. She was at every game, recital, play. She sang songs in the car with us, spent time with us and was always just a good mom. She is about to retire with a full pension. To her, it was never either/or. She said having a career gave her something that was just hers. But she would choose us (my brother and I) every single time if came down to that.

Ok_Pomegranate7730 · 2025-12-04T13:07:54+00:00

How old r u ? Do you have/dedicate any time to meeting people as of now ? If you meet someone, does your workload allow for dates and relationship?

Title	Career women, do you regret it ?
Author	silentandveryquiet
Upvotes	30
Comments	50
Date	December 4, 2025 1:49 AM UTC (7 months ago)
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