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A career is what provides for your family, but it only lasts as long as you are physically and mentally capable of handling it. Family, on the other hand is your family forever regardless of your physical and mental capacity.

A career can make a person feel empowered and useful and then they go home to a house full of children and feel under appreciated. This can make many people choose their career over their family. These are the people that will take a call from a client at any moment of the day regardless of where they are at (child's dance recital, etc.) or who they are with.

I don't feel these people necessarily meant for it to be that way or that they love their family any less than they should. It could just be that they need to feel more useful at home and more of an empowering figure than just a doormat.

Bottom line is careers don't last...and for a variety of reasons. A company could shut down, employees could be laid off due to hard economic times, a physical impairment could prevent a person from continuing their career, etc. Then there is retirement. Most people don't work until they die. They work until they no longer need the money or can no longer perform the job duties. So once any of these things happens, what do they have left? Their family.

Family is with a person before, during, and after their career. It does not matter if a person makes a mistake within a family (within boundaries of course), that family will still be your family when all is said and done. Make a mistake in your career and it could cost you that career. Lose the ability to physically or emotionally perform your career duties and your gone. But your family is still there. Your career won't be the one pushing you in your wheelchair, helping you up steps, sitting with you at the doctor's office, helping you make tough life choices....it is your family.

I would not sacrifice my family for my career. I have both, but if it came to choosing just one then it would definitely be my family. I need someone to be with me through all of my life obstacles and joys. A career can not do that....it's a career...not a person. Take care of your family and they will take care of you. Take care of your career and you will be left behind when things get rough. If you are lucky, your family will still be there for you...but I prefer to play it safe....I'm not much for chancing it luck.

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