career sacrifice
Job for family
Career sacrifice is giving up professional advancement, opportunities, or ambitions for something else deemed more important—typically family obligations, a partner's career, or personal values.
The phrase often appears in discussions of work-life balance and gender dynamics: She made significant career sacrifices to raise her children.
A career sacrifice may be voluntary or feel forced by circumstances.
- ambitionDesire for achievement
- tradeoffExchange involving sacrifice
- give and takeMutual concession between parties
- familyRelated people together
- personal lifeOne's non-professional existence
workaholic · long hours · burnout · dedication · overtime · missed · regret · climbing · ladder · rat race · devotion · hustle · grind · compromise · work life balance · passion · dreams · balance
- working parentsworking mom, working moms, working dad, dual income, work-life balance
- self-sacrificehuman shield, selflessness, self-denial, renunciation, forfeit
career sacrificepromotion
Rank increase or publicity
career advancement · climbing the ladder · upward mobility · career progression · fast-tracking
career, sacrifice, careers, careered, careering, careerism, careerist, careerists, sacrifices