CHAPTER 6

Family: fitting your lifestyle/career with theirs

TODAY AND TOMORROW

You may already have a family or you may be young (?), free and single. The likelihood is that, regardless of your gender, religion or age, at some stage you are going to have to take into account the needs of some element of ‘family’.

This may simply be taking into account a partner or spouse (who may have their own career commitments), it may be considering their children and/or children you have together. It may move on to include your parent(s) and/or your spouse/partner’s parent(s); and that may simply involve being in the same country as they are, so you can see them and they you, or it may include actually having some or all of them living in the same dwelling ...

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