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Can you build a career up while being a care giver to parents?

BetterDreams657 October 17th, 2023

I have a job that I like, it’s work from home mostly, and a boss supportive of my care giver role. I’m not that young anymore, although I feel I am, and I feel that I’ve missed my chance to build up a career I could have had based on all my previous performance. I also think that my boss can’t see me taking up more responsibilities and move to a more leading role due to family obligations, even though I have already proven myself a couple of times. And this could be me projecting, WFH has benefits but it also has one enormous draw back for me, that is feeling disconnected from people and events, and not being able to naturally develop the sense of what the team and company needs. I’m an extrovert with self reflection tendencies, so sitting alone with my projects never worked for me in the long run. I feel like all this is very constraining for further development and anything more than an average performance. I have plans upon plans for professional and personal development that mostly end in watching movies when I have some time to wind down. Not even able to read a book anymore, at least not for any sustained period of time. I know that my job provides me stability, security and time I need right now, but I do want to do it well and right now I feel it’s just a minimum and I’m falling back in my skills and knowledge.

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