It is perhaps the ultimate workplace stressor. The young female executive being pulled three ways - professional responsibilities that squeeze-out family life, the body-clock that urges her to quit work and have a baby, and the scenario of a reduced living standard if she does give up her job to start a family. One big problem with this kind of emotive pressure is that it can give rise to an impulse decision that may turn out to be the wrong one. Before making the leap, it is necessary to carefully evaluate your position - starting with a worst-case scenario, where your existing job will go to someone else in your department and you will eventually become a working mother having to take temporary jobs to assist with the family budget. Bluntly, would you be able to survive? If not, then you must face the unwelcome truth that...
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