She sounds cool, and like she's got her head on straight. Good on her. I also reduced my availability, it is not so much career suicide as "career murder". You

She sounds cool, and like she's got her head on straight. Good on her. I also reduced my availability, it is not so much career suicide as "career murder". You look at your career as it is laid out before you, you say, "yeah, no... no thanks". You weed it and you grow something different in it's place. In a large and healthy team, when you slow down, others who are ready and willing step up. They are going to need mentoring. If you can turn your reduced availability into a new crop of future leaders, your boss is going to thank you for the service. (Well, it also helped that I noticed what was happening and told my boss to thank me!) The are lots of places along the line where my experience could have gone differently, for the worse. But it didn't, and I hope the author is as lucky as I was.