I'll be clear with you. Working is much easier than having a family. Let's be really clear about that. If you go through a career path, and this is something that I hear from lots of other people as well, there's almost the escaping back to work. It's what we know, it's what we're familiar with. If you have a career path and you follow a career path for whatever reason that you want to follow, then you are in a place you want to be and you have the knowledge and experience to be able to bring that to bear, to deliver great work.
When you have a family, and this is true of everybody on the planet, you have no idea what you are doing when you have a child. For me, it was a much more natural environment to be at work than it was to be at home raising children. From that point of view, it is harder work, raising a family, than it is sitting at a desk.
We're all very lucky people. We're here, we're chatting, this is work. When we finish our conversation, I've got an interview to do. I'm going to be doing some client coms, I'm going to be having a meeting with my CEO, but I'll be doing that sat here, in front of a laptop, in a relatively cozy environment. Having a family is not like that. All of a sudden you are completely at sea, there's no manual for it. No one's telling you you're doing a good job, and really importantly, that's an important point, there's no validation. You're are certainly not going to get a toddler turn around and say, "Hey, great job you did there, Mummy. That was fantastic." There is no one to see you succeed and you have no idea if you are succeeding. For me, work was much easier, a much easier challenge.
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I'll be clear with you. Working is much easier than having a family. Let's be really clear about that. If you go through a career path, and this is something that I hear from lots of other people as well, there's almost the escaping back to work. It's what we know, it's what we're familiar with. If you have a career path and you follow a career path for whatever reason that you want to follow, then you are in a place you want to be and you have the knowledge and experience to be able to bring that to bear, to deliver great work.
When you have a family, and this is true of everybody on the planet, you have no idea what you are doing when you have a child. For me, it was a much more natural environment to be at work than it was to be at home raising children. From that point of view, it is harder work, raising a family, than it is sitting at a desk.
We're all very lucky people. We're here, we're chatting, this is work. When we finish our conversation, I've got an interview to do. I'm going to be doing some client coms, I'm going to be having a meeting with my CEO, but I'll be doing that sat here, in front of a laptop, in a relatively cozy environment. Having a family is not like that. All of a sudden you are completely at sea, there's no manual for it. No one's telling you you're doing a good job, and really importantly, that's an important point, there's no validation. You're are certainly not going to get a toddler turn around and say, "Hey, great job you did there, Mummy. That was fantastic." There is no one to see you succeed and you have no idea if you are succeeding. For me, work was much easier, a much easier challenge.