This is a heartbreaking read, I feel for the author. This is a true case of biology not having kept up with societal progress.
Female Founder Secrets: Fertility
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#13Whats the success rate of frozen eggs?
It's complicated, see this article for more info: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51463488
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#14And people wonder why the birth rate is continuing to decline. Our nation-wide workaholism is making family life an increasingly distant fantasy. I've had this discussion with my S/O before, and we've always come to the same conclusion: it would be irresponsible for us to adopt while both of us are working. That's a difficult place to be in, considering we're both quite passionate about our jobs. It makes me quite depressed to watch my chance at parenthood slowly pass me by, perhaps for good this time.
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#15The only logical answer here is youth. The younger you are the more fertile you are. This is true for both men and women, but more true for women. If you want children at some point in life then prioritize children first and early. I know, this puts your ambitious career on hold for a while and start ups require huge ambition. Still, start up opportunities will not be hyper critically different in the future than the…
This advice is likely economically bad though. Capital now is better than capital later. I would think money made early and saved by not having children and invested will end up being much more then what will be spent on a fertility clinic later.
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#16I empathize with how hard it is for a female founder in particular and for a woman in general when it comes to mixing children with a career. That said the advice to freeze your eggs (ie work now, live later) rubs me the wrong way. I wish we could live in a society where people would not have to work themselves to death and were able to... you know... enjoy life
Our society doesn't force or even encourage people to be startup founders -- they choose it for themselves. There are plenty of examples of classes of people who have to work harder than they should in an ideal society, but I'm not sure what point you're making with this particular one.
being a founder is glamourised. Being rich is glamourised. What more encouragement do people need? Wealthy businesspeople are basically the symbol of social success.
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#17I empathize with how hard it is for a female founder in particular and for a woman in general when it comes to mixing children with a career. That said the advice to freeze your eggs (ie work now, live later) rubs me the wrong way. I wish we could live in a society where people would not have to work themselves to death and were able to... you know... enjoy life
If you live anywhere with cheap cost of living you can have a pretty chill lifestyle and raise kids. If you want to live in a tournament zip code you have to live a tournament lifestyle. The US is a gigantic country that is mostly empty.
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#19I empathize with how hard it is for a female founder in particular and for a woman in general when it comes to mixing children with a career. That said the advice to freeze your eggs (ie work now, live later) rubs me the wrong way. I wish we could live in a society where people would not have to work themselves to death and were able to... you know... enjoy life
> wish we could live in a society where people would not have to work themselves to death and were able to... you know... enjoy life
While I do agree, this is where I draw a distinction between "job" and "career." A job is something you do to make money. A career is an end in itself. Balancing a career and parenthood is incredibly hard because they're both large time commitments. Despite what the 90's told women (though this applies equally to men), you can't have it all, and you have to decide what's important to you.
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#20I empathize with how hard it is for a female founder in particular and for a woman in general when it comes to mixing children with a career. That said the advice to freeze your eggs (ie work now, live later) rubs me the wrong way. I wish we could live in a society where people would not have to work themselves to death and were able to... you know... enjoy life
For highly skilled technical people and business leaders, we already do live in that society. There are many companies that will happily pay you entirely unreasonable amounts of money to work a 9-5 job. However, you can opt in to lifestyles where you work yourself to death in the hopes of getting even more excessive riches and fame than you would get by living a more relaxed lifestyle.
I don't want fame or riches.
I just want to build something nobody else has built.