Wahm - It! - The Master Course - Book 1 by E. Martyn, C. Brizzell, et al - HTML preview

Step 1: Review the Offline Work Options for Moms

 

Take us. Before we were moms, we had full-time jobs. We worked long hours, socialised after work, brought papers home, commuted, focused on our careers.

Now? Since having children, we’ve tried just about everything. Working full-time and part-time outside the home, setting up a home-based business, working freelance, taking low-paid jobs to tide us over, saying ‘Yes’ to work that demanded too much – and suffering the consequences – even stopping work altogether.

Yep. Between us, we’ve done the lot.

 

And we’ve realised that our feelings about work are completely different from what they were pre-kids. Other moms feel the same:

Once my baby was born I found it difficult to focus on my work… with two kids. I feel torn between two worlds. There is no way that I can get to the career next step without putting in long hours, which I feel are not compatible with motherhood. Dian

My background is as an IT Business Analyst… all I can remember about my techie life was how I’d end up in a cube with another mom talking about how to get the heck out of there! Kristin

One thing is crystal clear. As a mom, your working needs change drastically. You still want and/or need to work, but you need different options to fit with the changes in your life.

And that’s where you might have drawn a blank. Finding work that fits isn’t easy.