[clement_b]

The question is: how much their partner/parents/nanny is taking on? Without someone who is always available to help, it's impossible to be free and successful with young kids. Simply impossible. You can't travel, you can't work late (in the office) you can't do offsites, you can't sleep, you have no weekends to work on side gigs, because your side gig are your kids. Which is great, but soooooo costly from all angles.

PS: I love my kids, but I'm basically working/living at 50% of my capacity since I got my first, and that is really hard to swallow.

[freedom2099]

To be fair I was not working late even before the birth of my son… life is to short to waste it on work (and I do love my job… still there are so many nice things to do in life that is a pity to focus only on work). I never considered professional accomplishment worth the effort!

[quickthrower2]

You need to know the age of the kids too. 0-3 months and 1-3 yrs are probably physically the most demanding.