I think one of my bigger problems now is how to balance my family and career goals. It occurs to me that that's hardly a gifted issue, BUT perhaps it's a bit worse for the gifted population because our kids have unique needs that can be hard to meet and because we can have unique drives and needs to personally achieve.
I completely identify with this! The reason I started writing is because it fits with my kids' needs and still fulfills me.
You know, it's something of a personal crusade for me to get smart, well-educated SAHMs to cultivate their personal interests. My theory (worth exactly what you paid for it!) is that a lot of the helicopter momming today exists because the moms have cut themselves off from their interests. I think that's really unhealthy and leads to obsessive parenting that's not good for anyone.
Obviously one cannot easily career-jump from veterinarian to tax lawyer to whatever else. But I think there's nothing wrong with exploring a number of options over the course of a lifetime. And I think becoming an amateur expert at whatever interests us is a good way to experience all those different callings that we can't really answer.
That's what writing does for me. I'm just hoping that I might also have found a way to get paid for becoming an amateur expert at all the things that interest me.
