I’m looking to hear stories of parents who <i>wanted</i> to keep working, and enjoyed their career but due to high childcare costs/lack of work flexibility/other reasons, your only option was to quit and become a full-time stay at home parent.<p>If so, was a part-time job ever an option? What other scenarios did you consider to try to continue your career? Are you the mom or dad?
Not sure what you want to get from this. Some people were financially able to keep going - others weren't. Some people wonder what if they didn't have kids and pursued their career - others wondering what it'd be like to have a family.<p>Life in most cases is a series of tradeoffs.<p>That being said, if you bust your ass you can do both like my father did.