I've just started working, and find myself in a similar situation with my close friends rather than family, as my shifts don't fit too well with the idea of socialising.
I'm thinking the solution is pretty simple on paper. Realistically, even if you don't try and climb the ladder, unless you quit work all together you're not going to have significantly more time to spend with your family. Solution? Try and make sure you make an impression during the time you do spend with them. With that extra money you'll hope to be earning, take them out more, give them more special memories. You know, quality over quantity and all that.
...because a week of Dad not being home is made all better if the one hour he does give us is spent at the zoo.
Come on. What you are saying here is every rich neglectful father's excuse, and it's a shitty one. Maybe it works for your buddies, but not for a little child who needs their father to guide, love and protect them through their fragile childhood.
Well I'm simply talking from personal experience. I'm 19, didn't mind the fact that I didn't see that much of my Dad in my younger years, and kinda wish he'd simply spent his time with my more meaningfully.
While your example is extreme (and to clarify, if the situation was anywhere near that, family should obviously come first) I do see your point. I just think that provided it's not an extreme case either way, it won't do as much harm as you seem to think.
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I'm thinking the solution is pretty simple on paper. Realistically, even if you don't try and climb the ladder, unless you quit work all together you're not going to have significantly more time to spend with your family. Solution? Try and make sure you make an impression during the time you do spend with them. With that extra money you'll hope to be earning, take them out more, give them more special memories. You know, quality over quantity and all that.
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...because a week of Dad not being home is made all better if the one hour he does give us is spent at the zoo.
Come on. What you are saying here is every rich neglectful father's excuse, and it's a shitty one. Maybe it works for your buddies, but not for a little child who needs their father to guide, love and protect them through their fragile childhood.
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While your example is extreme (and to clarify, if the situation was anywhere near that, family should obviously come first) I do see your point. I just think that provided it's not an extreme case either way, it won't do as much harm as you seem to think.
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