Any mom 🐠 out there? Thinking of starting a family soon, but worried about balancing the work (and eventually travel) with a little one. Might be better to move to industry before? Thoughts from moms who have been in industry vs consulting?

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Consulting moms bowl is super help. Can probably search “industry” or “travel” etc and pull up quite a few!

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Consulting is fine but travel might be tricky

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If you like what you do and everyone is generally happy with your performance, I’d say stick with it.

From my experience, major consulting companies have better benefits for moms vs industry - unless if you are targeting FAANG.

If you are at a higher level and with the recent WFH, I think you can dictate what you are comfortable with travel once things are back to normal.

At OW, there are moms who enjoy this type of work and they don’t travel every week and when they travel it’s usually for 1-2 days.

The examples I’ve seen where it worked really well were either a) far enough into career to afford caregivers (and comfortable with leaving kids for days at a stretch), or b) well-developed pyramid and clients in home city, so “travel” is 30 minutes on a train.

The moms I’ve known at EY had to go internal to have any sort of balance

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