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the thinking here is to take a mid-career break if you can afford it so as to maximize the time you spend with your young kids:

the thinking here is to take a mid-career break if you can afford it so as to maximize the time you spend with your young kids: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2022/10/family-over-fire/

Rarely has a post resonated so deeply

I'm nearly 8 months into full time caregiving and its been one of the most rewarding periods in my life

My partner, despite her demanding career, has also managed to be present a lot — so though not planned, we did in some respects manage to do and will continue to do somrthing similar to the authors

Great in theory. Not sure we could keep up home payments if a long break from work happened though. London is an expensive place to live

100% almost a year into being a dad and trading as much money for time with my son as possible.

You can always make more money and there’s no better motivation to do so 😅