I wish when I was younger I just had kids early when my career was at the "bums on seats" stage and I didn't have much responsibility. Now I am older and more

I wish when I was younger I just had kids early when my career was at the "bums on seats" stage and I didn't have much responsibility. Now I am older and more senior, I have more responsibilities and the expectations are higher so it is more "difficult" to dedicate more time to my offspring by taking more time off or just not going to late meetings etc. Of course there is some power that comes with more seniority to simply say no to things outside of the normal office hours or not "taking one for the team" or whatever to do a late night or a weekender. I guess there is an element of me thinking "If I had just done this 10 years ago it would have been a lot easier now" sort of hindsight type thing going on, but yeah it is difficult to shake the thought that I waited too long. Not just for work but also for normal social life/holidaying etc too - like if you had kids in your early 20s you could have had teenage kids (who can look after themselves) and yet be in your 30s and still be young enough to do fun/crazy things, rather than be 55-60 with teenage kids and then be too old to do a lot of stuff you used to enjoy (e.g. sports, social scene etc) although the flip side is you got to spend those 20s-30s years doing fun stuff anyway .... as you can see I am conflicted :) tl;dr - if you are young, there is never a time when you are 100% "ready" for kids so just go ahead and do it before it is too late.