Heathrow Director, I can assure you that my 5 year old (who won't stay 5 forever!) will always come first. Her dad is quite a senior pilot with a very good airline and is home a lot. The way I see it, a career in ATC is far more compatible with my husband's career (and family life in general) than my career prior to having children, which involved very long hours Mon-Fri, and invariably saw me leaving the house at 7am and not returning until very late.
I would certainly not choose to be posted too far from home, but at the same time, don't want to pass up the opportunity to do a job that I think I would be good at and enjoy (and one that will hopefully enable me to spend plenty of quality time with my kids while still managing to pay the school fees!)
Incidentally, we haven't ruled out the possibility of relocating the whole family and buying a small flat near Gatwick for my husband to stay in before early flights and on standby days...
Last edited by popgun87; 17th Aug 2013 at 10:18.