When my son was very young my career was at peak. My husband was also growing in his career. It was crazy busy and I was overwhelmed with doing everything. Even though me and husband both were juggling things perfectly ok, I always felt I wasn’t spending family time as much as I should. It was like dropping-picking up my child and providing all required resources in time but no family time. I made a decision that time to slow down my career so instead of leaving the job I found a job where I was allowed to WFH. This allowed me to attend my son’s school events, gave more time with him. I was happy working for slow pace place where progression was slow.
Now I realised that colleagues who were working with me 1-2 level below are now 1-2 levels above me. I feel really battered now as my current company I work for doesn’t progress the staff at all so people are in their roles for 5-7 years in the same roles.
My question is does any working mum has taken decisions like that and felt that they are now able to move in fast pase environment again ? How did you moved back in that track of getting promoted and moving up? I just can’t find a way to bring my career back to moving up .