Title: do you think career and family is either-or, meaning you have to choose either one and sacrifice the other?<p>If you have a strong career ambition and have also raised a big family (more than 1 kid, and spouse doesn&#x27;t work), do you feel that family is a career obstacle or a booster?<p>In the middle of your life, have you regretted about your choice and wondered what life would be like if you had chosen the other option?<p>Do you think, as an entrepreneur, a family is a necessary part of your life to hold you together when you fall? and to have a purpose to entrepreneurship in the first place?<p>I do not have a family yet. But I&#x27;m at the right age (if not already late) to form a family and I&#x27;m facing life choices.<p>I have talked with few close friends who are also young parents. Their ambitions seem to be exhausted by their kids and family. As an example, one of my friends told me, the only time he has on his own is after 10pm, as he needs to put his kids into bed first. And often before he has done it, he is too exhausted and fall asleep first.<p>This is a life I fear a lot. I have a strong ambition to be a good entrepreneur, but my partner would like a big family. Can our goals still meet?<p>I know many successful entrepreneurs have a harmonic (Zuckerberg, Gates) family too. But those entrepreneurs started early in their life during their 20s. They had accumulated lots of resources before forming a family. With those resources, they have less pressure.<p>What do you think?
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