Looking for some success stories. Through my twenties I was a wonderer, had a series of jobs which paid the bills but not what I would call a "career" or something specific that I was very good at.. Had a mucked up early life with parents, got abandoned at a young age, went into survival mode and that's what I've been doing for the last decade: surviving.
Hit 30, met great DH, married, got pregnant, but I still feel that my life hasn't properly started in some ways.
As I have a health condition I had been told to make hay while the sun shines (baby-wise) so instead of putting it off any longer when I became pregnant I knew I just had to go for it now.
I know many women "go back" to their careers after a baby, but I am looking to start at age 33 or so. I don't mean I want to go to college or make heaps of money (luckily DH earns enough to support me and kids) but for my own sense of identity I need to do it, and to feel like I have really broken from the past and am my own person. Is it too late? Is it a hope I can hold on to? Have you built a career from scratch since having children? What did it take?