Sacrificing a Career for Your Family: Working Mom or a Homemaker

On the first place, having a family is not as easy as it could be and being a parent is a sacrifice. Before settling down, we must keep in mind preferences and decisions that might affect family life in the future: Do I need to continue working after marriage? Am I ready to sacrifice my job just to be a homemaker? Can my husband alone support the daily needs of my family?

It is possible to manage the demands of our job and duties to our family? It is just a matter of balancing and adjusting accordingly. But as you decide to prioritize your family and you want to be a good parent, say goodbye to your job. You can find work in the future but if you lose your family, no one could replace and have them back again.

Long before, traditions introduced married women should be a homemaker and the husband will work for the family. But women nowadays became more enthusiastic, intelligent and eager to prove what they can do to help in the needs of the family. Besides, not all women want to be a full time mom or a homemaker especially when she wants to pursue working in her chosen field of study.

As I recalled my decision on sacrificing my career or being with my children, I choose my family, my kids. For me, there is nothing more rewarding than being happy with my family. I have no doubts..

My parents and friends urge me to pursue my career because of my college degree and work experiences after I gave birth to my first child. I tried to find a new job but my mind keeps on worrying about my baby at home. Sometimes I can’t focus because I wanted to have my hands on my child as much as possible.

I stopped working and when problems in our daily needs began to bother us, I got a job and it works out to balance my time between work load and my family. I’m very thankful that I got a family-friendly employer that understands us working moms.

Career wise, my work helps me to learn more, excel more in my chosen field and I'm very willing to expand many opportunities within and outside the company on gaining knowledge to enhance my abilities at work. Then came unexpected health problems of my younger child. I began to acquire absences in order to take care of my sick child. His having weak lungs and asthma attacks became a fear to me. I know and I feel that mom's hug can reduced the pain of suffering. My son’s pediatricians advise us to live far from the city and have a six-month to one-year therapy to survive it all.

No way to decide in a long run, I quit my job immediately to ensure his welfare. My child needs me and I love him more than I love my job. It is a choice between what is best for my family, not what’s right or wrong.

It has been almost three years since I resigned to the company I’m working for. In three year's time, my son improves a lot, it allows me to understand the true meaning of parenthood and in building a foundation that binds a family together. My son even excels in school, and this makes me also excel as a mother. It pays more than the money I can acquire in my work.

Now, working at home as a writer helps me to regain a career and be the best mom I can be to my two kids, a working mom and at the same time a homemaker.