My wife and I had our first child during my junior year and her senior year in college in the US. The second child came 2 months after my graduation. It was very difficult, and I ended-up dropping-out of a PhD program within the first semester due to the pressures of being a breadwinner. I have no regrets whatsoever, as going on to get a…
My wife and I had our first child during my junior year and her senior year in college in the US. The second child came 2 months after my graduation. It was very difficult, and I ended-up dropping-out of a PhD program within the first semester due to the pressures of being a breadwinner. I have no regrets whatsoever, as going on to get a PhD in computer science would have been possibly the worst financial decision of our adult lives, missing out on 4 or 5 years of a booming software sector in the early 2010s. Add that to having our four children being 4 of the best decisions of our lives, and we feel incredibly blessed with the way things have turned out.
My wife and I had our first child during my junior year and her senior year in college in the US. The second child came 2 months after my graduation. It was very difficult, and I ended-up dropping-out of a PhD program within the first semester due to the pressures of being a breadwinner. I have no regrets whatsoever, as going on to get a PhD in computer science would have been possibly the worst financial decision of our adult lives, missing out on 4 or 5 years of a booming software sector in the early 2010s. Add that to having our four children being 4 of the best decisions of our lives, and we feel incredibly blessed with the way things have turned out.