“Career should come before family—you can't pour from an empty cup”
Agree
- Financial stability enables family security
- Fulfilled individuals make better parents
- Career window is narrower than family time
- Can't support family without career success
- Self-sacrifice breeds resentment over time
Disagree
- Family moments can't be reclaimed
- Deathbed regrets are never about work
- Children need presence, not presents
- Career success means nothing without love
- Work will replace you, family won't
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