Opportunities to go above and beyond at work are inversely lost opportunities to go above and beyond as a parent or spouse. Ideally I'd do both, but I'm only human. For me, my family comes first. Thoughts?

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Same. Was a stud pre-child, now candidly I am skating by. My priority is spending as much time with my family as possible, even if that means I slow down the climb up the ladder.

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You’re right.

Are you a single income household?

Are you able to take off for kids’ activities and bedtime rituals? That’s my balance. I dont travel like I used to. But a few months ago I was gone for seven nights and it was incredibly lonely without my family.

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The only way is to find opportunities to grow and scale a team working under you and focusing your time on highly strategic activities. It’s not possible for everyone in all roles. A similar way to think is to set the ceiling for time you’ll spend on work and not your family, and track that. Be lethal with time budgeting and learn how to positively say no or redirect requests that come your way. Making yourself scarce—while having impact—can actually help more than living at your office.

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I'm in a similar situation. My ask of all of you is do you still have aspirations for partner? If so, how do you find that extra gear hustle while having a family?

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At the extreme end, yes. But this job has a lot of expectations built in so you need to keep up with those too.

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Before kid I was aggressively pursuing my next big opportunity and working hard to get promoted etc. after kid for me my little man comes first , can’t imagine spending all the time working and not spending time with my kid

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Cs get degrees. Easier said than done, but do what you need to do to meet or slightly exceed expectations to make sure you don’t get let go or delay your promotion, but not so much that your family is becomes secondary. I made that mistake with kid #1 and I’m not gonna do it for kid #2. I’m a C now (which is a project leader role at LEK), which will hopefully make it easier to delegate, etc., than when I was an AC with kid 1.

To SM3’s question above, yes I still have partner aspirations. But I did the math. If I get on time promotions from now until then, I’m looking at a ~7 year timeline. The absolute fastest I could get to partner assuming early promo throughout, is ~5 years. Not worth it in my opinion.

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