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If offered a promotion requiring weekly travel to different areas of the world for 6 months, if you have a 6 month old child, do you accept?

You would have to leave your baby with your husband as you will be constantly on the road during those six months, traveling throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. You will only see him may be once or twice during that time frame. The promotion has financial rewards, as well as professional ones. What to do?
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Marked as Best! November 25, 2009 02:18 PM
The offer is very tempting for it comes with money and promotion. But if I will be given that offer and have a 6-month old baby to care to I would have to decline. My priority is my baby for he only grow once, the time that I will not be around him is very crucial, actually, the first 12 months of the baby are very crucial. I have to see to it that I will be able to see him in a regular basis even if I am working and when I am constantly traveling that is very hard to do.
I will not be able to concentrate on my job and that will suffer too because I am always thinking of my baby and getting worried because there are things that I cannot just delegate to my husband because he has his job too.

No, I am not going to miss the vaccination, the first smile, the first walk, and the first few words that my baby is going to say for anything in this world. My career has to take a backseat in this case. I think that there will come another opportunity for me at the right time but the time that I will miss being with my baby, that opportunity never comes back for we can never turn back time.
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