I think committing to family can also get in the way of Ambition for some, tough decisions have to be made. My best mate is often in two minds about it, a great highflying job travelling all over the world, but doesn't see his boy from one week to the next.......obviously he'll have a cracking pension at the end of it, but at what cost?
Just to add, re working away, Himself worked away for 8 years from when kids were 3 & 5 til 11 & 13.As it happens, I was talking to them about this the other week. They both said they didn't ever feel like he was absent from their lives, and that they