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But then she wavered, and in that moment, Dr. Chang wrote me, "I heard your voice saying, 'Sit at the table' and I knew I had to accept the promotion.
但隨后她又猶豫了，張醫生在信里寫道：就在那一刻，“我的腦子里出現了你的聲音——‘自信地往桌前坐’，我知道自己必須接受這次升職機會。
So that evening, I told my husband I was taking the job ... and then handed him the grocery list."
當天晚上我就告訴了丈夫我的決定，然后把日用品購物清單遞給了他。”
Sharing the burden of the mundane can make all the difference.
共同承擔起日常生活的重負，一切便會出現轉機。
My career and marriage are inextricably intertwined.
我的事業和婚姻之間有著密不可分的關系。
During that first year Dave and I were parents, it became clear that balancing two careers and two cities was not adding up to one happy family.
我和戴夫當上父母的第一年就發現，我們在兩個城市里尋求平衡并不是一種快樂的生活模式，
We needed to make some changes. But what?
我們得做一些改變。但是，
I loved my job at Google and he felt enormously loyal to his team in L A.
我喜歡谷歌的工作，而戴夫也頗為自己在洛杉磯的團隊而驕傲。
We struggled through the commuting for another long year of marital less-than-bliss.
我們掙扎著又度過了漫長的一年，婚姻生活仍稱不上幸福。
By then, Dave was ready to leave Yahoo.
那時候戴夫已經準備離開雅虎，
He limited his job search to the San Francisco area, which was a sacrifice on his part, since more of his professional interests and contacts were in L.A.
這次他把工作搜索范圍限制在舊金山灣區。由于他的專業興趣和人脈大多在洛杉磯，這樣做對他來說是一種犧牲。
He eventually became CEO of SurveyMonkey and was able to move the company headquarters from Portland to the Bay Area.
最后他出任了“調查猴子”公司的首席執行官，并把公司總部從波特蘭搬到了舊金山灣區。
Once we were in the same city, it still took us some time to figure out how to coordinate our work schedules.
生活在同一個城市之后，我們仍然需要想辦法協調彼此的工作安排。
Even though Dave and I are extraordinarily fortunate and can afford exceptional child care,
盡管我和戴夫相當幸運地能夠負擔額外的育兒費用，
there are still difficult and painful decisions about how much time our jobs require us to be away from our family and who will pick up the slack.
但在工作時間的長短、料理家事等問題上仍需要做出許多困難而痛苦的決定。
