Would you choose your career or your family if you were just starting off in the business world?

Okay, so I’m watching Ugly Betty (it’s a super guilty pleasure) and basically, Betty was in a situation where she had to go to either a party for her sister Hilda and her new hair salon or to go and pick up a dress for her boss, Daniel that was super rare and important for a cover of his magazine.

She chose to go and get the dress, but her father was like “Oh, you shouldn’t go, this is super important to your sister” and whatnot, and Betty’s point was that her sister could let go of one party now and then because being an editor in a big magazine was Betty’s ultimate dream – she would have gotten fired if she didn’t go and get the dress.

So how about you? Would you pick to further your career or your family? I think that her father was being a little hardlined, personally, and I think that he shouldn’t have said the things that he did, but what do you think? I know that family is important, but can there be a halfway point?