Ask HN: Parents, did you have to quit your career to raise a family?

Not sure what you want to get from this. Some people were financially able to keep going - others weren't. Some people wonder what if they didn't have kids and pursued their career - others wondering what it'd be like to have a family.

Life in most cases is a series of tradeoffs.

That being said, if you bust your ass you can do both like my father did.

No, but I definitely took big hits. Mediocre yearly reviews meant lower raises, and relegation to maintenance crews.

So you're not interested in parents who kept thier jobs but made other tradeoffs?

Interested to hear that as well.