With or without you: Family and Career‐Work in a Demanding and Precarious Profession
通过访谈102名记者，发现他们采用职业家庭定位和资源获取两类实践来应对高要求和不稳定的职业环境，并构建出三种职业策略，性别对策略选择影响不大。
Abstract Family arrangements are crucial to people’s abilities to meet the high demands of professional careers; but most scholarship has examined stable, highly remunerated professions. To understand the relationship between career and family within the increasing number of precarious professions, we analyse interviews with 102 journalists. We discover two broad types of career‐work practices these professionals employ to engage family in their careers: career‐family positioning (i.e., crafting a narrative of how career and family relate) and career‐family resourcing (i.e., generating resources from family for career or vice‐versa). Together, these practices touch more family members – spouses, children, parents, siblings, and extended family members – and involve a wider range of resources than documented in stable fields. By piecing together variations of these practices, professionals construct career strategies that address their difficult context in different ways. Two strategies largely accept the demands and precarity, by prioritizing career and drawing on family , or prioritizing career and forgoing family. A third, prioritizing family over career, involves defying the demands. Gender does not clearly influence which career strategy people pursue. These findings advance scholarship on career and family in the professions, social‐symbolic work, and contribute to careers research more broadly.